HOUSE DEMOCRAT’S BLATANT UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTION MAKES MOCKERY OF PA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Harrisburg, PA- In the latest scheme by Harrisburg’s uni-party, House Democrats colluded with nineteen Republican Representatives to circumvent the will of the people by eliminating the two-thirds majority requirement for passage of important fiscal code bills, including the appropriation for funding to the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University and Temple University. After adding over $800 million in spending to the legislation in committee mere hours prior, Democrat Leadership rammed a vote through on the House Floor in the late hours of October 4th in a veiled attempt to avoid public scrutiny.
The Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus has previously successfully blocked this funding in response to policy issues ranging from the prescription of puberty blockers to children to free speech on campus.
This shameful demonstration of backroom politics and blatant disregard of our constitution is exactly what disgusts so many citizens of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus will continue its efforts to make any institution that accepts the hard-earned dollars of taxpayers completely transparent and responsible to the will of the people.
The Constitution of Pennsylvania,
Article III
§ 30. Charitable and educational appropriations.
No appropriation shall be made to any charitable or
educational institution not under the absolute control of the
Commonwealth, other than normal schools established by law for
the professional training of teachers for the public schools of
the State, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members
elected to each House.
there should be a 24 hour period of review to object and discourage last minute deals.
I'm sorry to tell you that you're barking up the wrong tree!
Nobody cares!
I wish they did care; but, they don't. Nobody's cared, for a long time.
If the People cared about the Constitution --whether of the Commonwealth or of the USA-- they would have objected to:
1) The changing of the "Statute of Limitations" on sex-crimes, and then RETROACTIVELY applying that change, to acts that were committed BEFORE that change had been made, to the "Statute of Limitations" [e.g., the Bill Cosby trial(s) and the prosecutions against the Catholic Church and other religious organizations];
2) The passage of "spending plans without corresponding 'revenue packages'", and calling each of those documents a "budget" (rather than a "wish-list" or "dream-sheet"), in order to pretend that the Legislature and ALL its members hadn't, TOGETHER, demonstrated that whatever regard they DID have, as individuals, for the Pennsylvania Constitution, wasn't sufficient, to ensure that the Government (or, even, the Legislative Branch of that Government) was capable of functioning in accordance with that Constitution, while they were "serving" as Legislators.
The People don't care.
Maybe, they can't afford to care. Maybe they don't know enough, about anything related to the Government of the USA or of the Commonwealth, or of ANY of the subsidiary entities that, together, comprise the Commonwealth, to know that there's anything wrong.
So, in that kind of environment, all you are is (at best) one of those nerdy tattle-tales who got a "Kick Me" sign taped to their back, in the hallway, on the way to the cafeteria.
At worst, you're a "Chicken Little", running around, clucking about how "the sky is falling", when it's "much ado, about nothing".
Maybe, with the writers' strike and nothing new on TV, they'll watch you running around, squawking and flapping your arms, and wonder where you got that backpack, shirt, or wrist-watch.
But, actually CARE?
What does anything that relates to some college that practically nobody goes to or knows anything about, have to with whether or not the Steelers or the Eagles make it to the Super Bowl?
Oh yeah! And where does someone go, to get the forms that'll need to be filled out, to open a "magic mushrooms" dispensary, since everyone's in such need of tax dollars, and you KNOW that all those high-earners [no pun intended] will be eager to spend all that "disposable income" that they're currently saving, because there isn't enough "stuff" to buy, right now,...
...on "'shrooms with a View", whose sales-taxes can be "ear-marked" for such worthy causes as "schools", "universal day-care", "free housing as a human right", and "guaranteed income sufficient to let part-time workers take TWO weeks' paid vacation, every year, instead of just one."
And really, why do we need money, anyway?
Why can't there just be a touch-screen on every corner, where people could just say what they want, and it gets delivered, that same day, for free, by a self-driving Tesla?