By now we all know about the extra money lawmakers decide to stuff in their pockets. they all assumed we would be to stupid to notice and to forgetful to remember if we did notice. I was asked what I would pay these elected officals. I would pay them 75% of what the guy on the front line in Iraq is making. That would change thing pretty darn quick.
Back in January, almost 100 Pennsylvania lawmakers signed on to legislation requiring the state to underwrite the cost of life insurance for active-duty National Guard soldiers and airmen.
But the proposal was quietly shunted aside -- in part over reservations about the precedent it would set -- and the General Assembly recessed in July without even holding a hearing on the idea.
These are the men and women who put their life on hold and on the line for all of us. Yet these yahoo's won't toss a dime to their family if they are killed. Eight other states, however, went ahead this year and enacted laws to subsidize life insurance for guardsmen but not PA.
This decision by Pennsylvania lawmakers not to follow suit came during the same session they decided to vote themselves pay raises of 16 percent to 34 percent, with no public debate or scrutiny, in the middle of the night. The subsidy would have cost Pennsylvania slightly more than $1 million a year. The legislative pay raises will cost at least several million dollars. Each and every one of them should hang their head in shame. Heck, I'm thinking of running now!
More than 3,350 Pennsylvania guardsmen are currently serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. Eleven have been killed so far in Iraq.
Associated Press
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