Are you able to imagine that Gov. Maura Healey of all individuals is now attacking Donald Trump on the difficulty of “affordability?”
Speak about projection — pointing the finger at someone else for misbehavior that you just your self have been selling and inspiring.
Maura Healey complaining about “affordability” is a basic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
In case you missed it, final week on the State of the Union President Trump singled out Massachusetts as one of many main fonts of welfare fraud within the US.
An extended overdue recognition, we will all agree on that.
Massachusetts could but be lagging in sure sectors of the Welfare Fraud Industrial Complicated — autism scams, for one.
However total, as in most measures of corruption and common dysfunction, the Commonwealth fights effectively above its weight class, and has been since even earlier than the COVID Panic.
However when Maintain-It Healey was requested concerning the president’s prime-time recognition of her fiesta of fraud, this was her response:
“That is all concerning the president and the Trump administration persevering with to attempt to deflect and distract from the fact of what’s occurring.
“I imply, you realize individuals um can’t pay payments, individuals can’t afford so many issues proper now. Um he’s driving the financial system off a cliff… So he needs to distract from the central concern on most individuals’s minds which is how can I afford housing, meals, value of residing simply typically…”
Now she’s anxious about affordability?
This state that she presides over so dreadfully has both the best or second highest value of residing amongst all 50 states. (Some surveys say Hawaii could also be increased, however at worst the Bay State is quantity two, in additional methods than one.)
Listed here are extra outcomes from current research about affordability:
— Value of residing in Massachusetts: 31-48 % above nationwide common.
— Utility prices third highest within the US, a minimum of 26 % above nationwide common.
— Housing prices 110 % above nationwide common (and possibly a lot worse than that).
— Within the high 20 for property taxes.
— Among the many high 10 in state income-tax burden.
— Of fifty states, ranked forty second in “tax competitiveness.”
— Highest toddler child-care prices within the nation.
— Fifth worst state for outward migration of taxpayers in 2025.
— One in six MA households spend greater than half of their month-to-month revenue on housing.
— Median lease in MA is $2,560 a month in comparison with nationwide median of $1,639.
— To dwell “comfortably” in MA, a household of 4 wants an annual revenue of $313,000 a 12 months.
Granted, the comrades could quibble over among the numbers, and the median revenue for Massachusetts residents stays close to the highest of the 50 states.
However total, do you see a pattern in these numbers?
None of them precisely scream, “Affordability!”
Probably the most damning stat, although, is that one-third of Massachusetts residents have thought of fleeing the Individuals’s Republic due to the excessive value of residing.
That quantity the Democrats can’t deny, as a result of the survey was executed by regime-controlled media — the Boston Globe and Suffolk College.
In December, the Globe took outing from their countless marketing campaign of lionizing racist, misogynist, deadbeat-dad unlawful alien savages with slobbering fake-news tales to ask 500 Massachusetts residents how they felt about, you realize, affordability.
Do you imagine that solely one-third of the state’s inhabitants want to get out, if solely they may? That’s a lowball quantity for certain.
But Maintain-It Healey just isn’t the one Democrat now attempting to wrap herself within the “affordability” concern.
In Virginia, the brand new Democrat regime ran all final fall on the A-word. Now that they’re in workplace, the hacks have simply handed the legislature in Richmond a 178 % pay increase.
The Republicans in Virginia are already calling it “the affordability hoax.”
After 4 years wherein Democrats squandered trillions of {dollars} on fraud and lavish welfare for unlawful aliens, devaluing the foreign money within the course of, now they declare that they’re involved about affordability.
However for Healey, speaking concerning the excessive value of residing and blaming Trump for her personal abysmal failures beats speaking concerning the precise state of the Commonwealth.
Contemplate the truth that days after the newest blizzard, big swaths of the state, together with a lot of the South Coast and New Bedford, stay impassable and unplowed.
But on the similar time, the dizzy dames of the Healey administration say they could want $130 billion to take care of the “menace” of local weather change.
The state Democrats and their native hack minions can’t even get the streets plowed in lots of areas, however they declare they will cease the (alleged) sea-level rise? Simply give them one other $130 billion — and that’s only for starters.
It was once mentioned that patriotism was the final refuge of a scoundrel. Then it grew to become racism.
Now, I believe it’s protected to say, Affordability is the final refuge of a scoundrel. A scoundrel named Maintain-It Healey.
