Massachusetts taxpayers under water again

DAM SCARY: Water rages through the 300-year-old Forge Pond Dam in Assonet yesterday. The dam was breached after Thursday’s torrential rains.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, the Massachusetts "leadership" on Beacon Hill is squandering tax dollars, spending them with impunity on welfare expansion, Commonwealth Care, and other things not enumerated to them by our state or federal Constitution, and now Bay State residents are at risk due to the resultant neglected infrastructure. It is a reflection on the State of the State that residents in flooded communities are now at risk while immigrants are suing to be covered by Commonwealth Care. Granted, these are legal immigrants, but they are non-residents, this Commonwealthcare is enough of a failed program, no need to expand it further while our bridges, dams, rails and tunnels collapse around us.

You would think these overgrown children would have learned their lesson when a slab of dilluted cement fell on a poor commuter's head in the the Tip O'Neil Tunnell, but no. Last year, Deval Patrick had to borrow money from the federal government to fix our roads, an outlay that is supposed to be covered by our exhorbiant gas taxes($.41.9 a gallon, that's roughly 1/6 the total price of gas), where did that money go? Apparently the same place that our bridge and dam inspection budgets did, siphoned into the welfare state.

Who will be the casualty this time? If you live in an affected community, look around your PTA meeting, your local diner, your church, you could be looking right at the next eventual casualty of progressive malfeasance run amok on Beacon Hill.
-Nick McNulty

Bay State dams in deep water

Gov. Deval Patrick plans to drain $400G in funding

By Marie Szaniszlo

Thousands of Bay State dams - one of which overflowed yesterday and sent townspeople scurrying from their homes - could soon be left to hold back floodwaters with little oversight as the governor plans to cut $400,000 from the state Office of Dam Safety.

Wendy Fox, spokeswoman for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, confirmed the $427,000 budget for the office is being decimated through Gov. Deval Patrick’s midyear cuts.

She said the plan is to focus on the worst dams with the $27,000 left in the budget while letting most of the 2,900 other dams go unchecked. She added DCR will dip into capital funds to help.

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