Private Sector Needs to Pony Up for Public Libraries
The Globe reports today that due to a $3.5 million budget gap, 8 - 10 neighborhood public libraries may be forced to close.
Just to put this in perspective, 3.5 million is the amount of the bonus financially troubled Boston Medical Center is paying its outgoing CEO, Elaine Ullian, this year. In addition to her $1.5 million salary.
The budget shortfall which could eliminate public libraries also comes at a time when, according to another recent story in the Globe,
More than half the $25 million in tax credits doled out to 28 firms by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center went to three that were already prospering without extra help from the government - Genzyme Corp., Shire Human Genetic Therapies, and Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc.Corporate welfare anyone?
We're obviously still in starve-the-beast mode. I say we switch back to eat-the-rich mode.
$3.5 million is a pittance. Pony up, bitches.
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