Wherefor the Anger About Priorities?

Want some explanation for my general frame of mind and occasional testiness about things Rhode Island?  Step 1: Read this article by Sandy Seoane and Ethan Shorey in the Valley Breeze:

Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Michael Lewis has a message for those traversing the state’s shoddy and weatherworn roads: Get used to it.

Crumbling roads and bridges across the state, Lewis told The Breeze, aren’t likely to get fixed anytime soon because the department’s funding sources are drying up …

Step 2: Read through the entirety of Governor Chafee’s proposed budget for FY15.  I won’t steal the thunder from a wasteful spending report on which I’m working (to be released in a few weeks), but when you review the priorities for which we somehow have money and weigh them against an upwardly revised unemployment rate and the fact that there’s no money left over for the infrastructure that we all use and need for everything else to happen, it’s tough not to think some folks deserve a good talking to around here.

Wait, look!  A social issue in Arizona we can argue about!

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