Well I can tell you this having resided in NEPA Luzerne County my entire life (46 yrs) that this area is full of narcissists and most of them run or have run for office.
This is one example of a man who has no problem tooting his own horn and pointing fingers at others so much so that the best we can get out of it is the fact that he felt Al Gore was a nice and decent man and that Clinton made you feel important.
We may have lost our boldness and courage and that may be fact but what burns my tail is the fact that it's because the politicians are delivering empty promises and broken dreams and those who voted them in are not the wusses but rather the suckers for putting them all there.
We have not necessarily lost our way but what we have found is a nation of corruption, nepotism, pay to play schemes, greed, and the top 1% cushioning their own pockets.
Pa may have been at one point a force to reckon with but not now with unemployment and dilapidation, with infrastructure crumbling, and please don't get me going on the debacle of the highest gax tax in our nation or the highest education for that matter.
Look we can't tax everyone else to death so we can get rich quick and retire on a nice pension.
We can't transfer funds meant for one thing such as to pay for road repair and use it to pay state police pensions.
We can't afford to pay the CEO of Penn Dot over 200k and yet continue to raise the turnpike tolls.
We have travelers and businesses using alternate routes just to avoid the insanity with round abouts that are too narrow for trucks and tolls that are too high to make a profit.
What the hell has happened here is pure greed to the top 1%
When you have someone like myself with a masters who can't get a job that must beg for employment for the past 9 years and counting then we are doing a great disservice to our people and our society at large.
I don't care to place the blame I care to have it fixed as I have three teens who deserve more than what we currently have to offer them and our next generation.
To see just some examples of the current insanity check the links:
https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2018/02/100000_club_number_of_pa_state.html
https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/local/2019/03/08/pennsylvania-turnpike-tolls-keep-climbing-so-why-11-billion-debt-bankruptcy-penndot/3081982002/
http://levittownnow.com/2019/04/08/pa-ranks-the-highest-for-state-imposed-gas-taxes/
https://www.wfmz.com/news/pennsylvania/audit-on-penndot-shows-billions-of-dollars-diverted-from-motor-license-fund-to-state-police/1072427812
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