With all of Massachusetts financial short comings...

Why is Deval handing out a $175,000 per year job that hasn't been needed in 12 years? But yet he wants to raise our taxes.

Outrage is sweeping Beacon Hill after Gov. Deval Patrick quietly slipped a $175,000 plum job to a political pal while squeezing taxpayers to pay more for less from the debt-ridden state government.

Asking citizens to fork over 19 cents more per gallon at the gas pump while bracing for cuts of cops and teachers, Patrick awarded supporter Marian Walsh the pricey plum as assistant executive director of the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority.

The job has been vacant for 12 years. The appointment of Walsh, 54, a Democratic state senator from West Roxbury, was revealed amid news of a $1 billion state deficit while Patrick continued his vacation in Jamaica

And to make matters worse, Sal Dimasi handed out raises in his final days as speaker.

Former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi handed out pay increases worth a combined $65,000 to 10 House employees in the days before he resigned in January.

The Boston Globe reports that the Democrat gave raises ranging from 4 to 66 percent to staff members working for committee chairmen, two court officers, and promoted his driver to court officer. The officers maintain order in the chamber.

I don't understand how anyone can still vote for these Democrats. It should be our number 1 priority to get rid of any and all of these Democrats who want to raise our taxes especially why they are handing out pay increases or un-needed jobs to their friends.

And we wonder why the state's deficit might hit $1 billion.

As tax revenue continues to dwindle, Beacon Hill leaders are confronting an additional budget gap of as much as $1 billion this year, forcing lawmakers to choose between deep spending cuts and broad-based tax increases.

The new estimate by a Senate budget leader, which was confirmed by a state fiscal watchdog group, is the latest in a cascading series of grim revenue forecasts, which has already compelled Governor Deval Patrick to close a $1.4 billion shortfall in the state's $28 billion budget in October and an additional $1.1 billion little more than a month ago.

But Deval thinks it is a good idea to give out a $175,000/year hack job.

And I'm sure cutting spending has never crossed Deval's mind. Just tax, tax, tax...