State employees in the Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania had a message for Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday: “Let us eat cake!”
According to the anonymous worker who had this cake made up, the workers pooled their money Monday for a tasty dessert that shows a classic 1999 Daily News photo of Rendell stuffing his face with the 1 billionth cheesesteak.
It was a way to take their minds off the budget crisis and the fact, as noted by the cake, that no money would be coming their way in the form of paychecks.
“The cake symbolizes…the audacity of the Governor and legislators dining on steak and what-not while state workers are being forced to resort to applying for food stamps because a budget cannot be passed,” said the worker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing her currently non-paying job.
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go out and produce instead of leeching off of the public nipple.— give me liberty or death- I applaud this worker's initiative. State workers should not be used as pawns in this extra-legal, non-legislative loophole that Rendell uses to delay the budget and bully spending when there is no money. Why can't Rendell accept that there is not going to be a state personal income tax hike?— CleanupPhilly
- For those of us who do pay our taxes, this crisis is an opportunity to get back to basics. We can't afford more in taxes. Just say NO to a PA personal income tax hike, a Philly sales tax hike, and the city pension refi/payment delay. It's time for states and cities to use the same common sense as the rest of us by not spending what we don't have: http://www.stoppataxhike.com/— CleanupPhilly
- CRY ME A RIVER. ALL YOU DEMOCRATS VOTED HIM IN, TWICE. LETS SEE, WHAT HAS HE ACCOMPLISHED? ANY NEW MANUFACTURING? NO. ANY CLEVER ENTREPRENURIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS? NO. HMM, JUST GAMBLING. NOW THAT IS FORWARD THINKING.— dolce
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