Is anyone you know getting six weeks of vacation right before Thanksgiving? Maybe you are? No, I didn't think so. But if you're a member of the Massachusetts state legislature you are. And well deserved too, don't you think? (Answer: NO!)
After all, it's hard work to vote to restore $18.8 million to the "legislative fund," a slush fund we don't know much about that the legislature reserves for its own personal use. It also takes a lot of energy to fight for keeping the two "hack holidays" that the vast majority of us do not get paid for. Eliminating those would only save us about $10 million anyway. Chump change if you're an entrenched incumbent of the Massachusetts legislature.
The answer you've probably heard to any concerns about our elected officials recessing for the rest of the year when there is still much important work to do is that "those are the rules." And we know our trustworthy legislature never breaks the rules...right?
They are self-imposed rules!! Our state reps and senators make them, and they can change them. Of course, that would mean doing that dirty little thing we call "reform."
There's one sure way to get reform: vote in new candidates in 2010!
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