When it comes to pollution, Philly is #1

Actually, we're number 11 according to a 2013 report by the American Lung Association.

But the good news is that this means one can say that Philadelphia is "Dickensian" and be rightish. Although you'll probably still sound pretentious, like that editor guy on The Wire.

Angrycat sez: Yep, that's a picture of my butt.

Philly wins the homeless and hungry city contest

Philadelphia was number one in a study ranking food insecurity for the years 2009 and 2010. In 2010, estimates are that over 30% of families here didn't have enough food. According to a 2012 hunger and homelessness survey, Philly beat out 25 other major U.S. cities when it came to unmet needs for food and shelter.

Angrycat sez: OOOOOOOO a stack of foods

As I don't have thumbs, I shall attempt to nuzzle these cans open.

Well, fuck.

Get out the bathroom and open these cans, you lazy bastard. You have something in your eye? Well I have nothing in my stomach. Get the fuck out here.

Corbett's 2013-14 Budget: find every revenue stream and murder it in the face.

PA Guv Corbett, gazing at what he has wrought with his billion and a half cut to education (which has resulted in a shitstorm of closures and coming labor war) has made the wise decision to double down on austerity measures.  I mean fuck it, we just need people to put the fracking pipes in the ground, right?

So he has announced that his 2013-14 budget will contain a 30% reduction in corporate taxes, resulting in a yearly budget loss of 800 million.   But then he's doing it because we've been really taxing those guys too much I mean no this is actually the tenth year in a row corporations in PA get a tax break.  Add all those corporate tax breaks up?  You get a yearly loss of 3 billion.  Yay.


Angrycat sez:  I look at them numbers and show them my BUTT