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.
A protracted overdue recognition, we are able to all agree on that.
Massachusetts could but be lagging in sure sectors of the Welfare Fraud Industrial Advanced — autism scams, for one.
However general, as in most measures of corruption and normal 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 truth of what’s taking place.
“I imply, you already know 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 subject on most individuals’s minds which is how can I afford housing, meals, value of dwelling simply usually…”
Now she’s frightened about affordability?
This state that she presides over so dreadfully has both the best or second highest value of dwelling amongst all 50 states. (Some surveys say Hawaii could also be larger, however at worst the Bay State is quantity two, in additional methods than one.)
Listed here are extra outcomes from current research about affordability:
— Price of dwelling in Massachusetts: 31-48 % above nationwide common.
— Utility prices third highest within the US, at the least 26 % above nationwide common.
— Housing prices 110 % above nationwide common (and doubtless 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 stay “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 general, do you see a development in these numbers?
None of them precisely scream, “Affordability!”
Probably the most damning stat, although, is that one-third of Massachusetts residents have thought-about fleeing the Folks’s Republic due to the excessive value of dwelling.
That quantity the Democrats can’t deny, as a result of the survey was performed by regime-controlled media — the Boston Globe and Suffolk College.
In December, the Globe took day trip from their infinite 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 already know, affordability.
Do you imagine that solely one-third of the state’s inhabitants want to get out, if solely they might? That’s a lowball quantity for positive.
But Maintain-It Healey is just not the one Democrat now attempting to wrap herself within the “affordability” subject.
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 elevate.
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 dwelling and blaming Trump for her personal abysmal failures beats speaking concerning the precise state of the Commonwealth.
Think about the truth that days after the latest blizzard, enormous 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 might want $130 billion to cope with 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 stated that patriotism was the final refuge of a scoundrel. Then it grew to become racism.
Now, I believe it’s secure to say, Affordability is the final refuge of a scoundrel. A scoundrel named Maintain-It Healey.
