Can you believe that Gov. Maura Healey of all people is now attacking Donald Trump on the issue of “affordability?”
Talk about projection — pointing the finger at somebody else for misbehavior that you yourself have been promoting and encouraging.
Maura Healey complaining about “affordability” is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
In case you missed it, last week at the State of the Union President Trump singled out Massachusetts as one of the leading fonts of welfare fraud in the US.
A long overdue recognition, we can all agree on that.
Massachusetts may yet be lagging in certain sectors of the Welfare Fraud Industrial Complex — autism scams, for one.
But overall, as in most measures of corruption and general dysfunction, the Commonwealth fights well above its weight class, and has been since even before the COVID Panic.
But when Hold-It Healey was asked about the president’s prime-time recognition of her fiesta of fraud, this was her response:
“This is all about the president and the Trump administration continuing to try to deflect and distract from the reality of what’s happening.
“I mean, you know people um can’t pay bills, people can’t afford so many things right now. Um he’s driving the economy off a cliff… So he wants to distract from the central issue on most people’s minds which is how can I afford housing, food, cost of living just generally…”
Now she’s worried about affordability?
This state that she presides over so dreadfully has either the highest or second highest cost of living among all 50 states. (Some surveys say Hawaii may be higher, but at worst the Bay State is number two, in more ways than one.)
Here are more results from recent studies about affordability:
— Cost of living in Massachusetts: 31-48 percent above national average.
— Utility costs third highest in the US, at least 26 percent above national average.
— Housing costs 110 percent above national average (and probably much worse than that).
— In the top 20 for property taxes.
— Among the top 10 in state income-tax burden.
— Of 50 states, ranked 42nd in “tax competitiveness.”
— Highest infant child-care costs in the nation.
— Fifth worst state for outward migration of taxpayers in 2025.
— One in six MA households spend more than half of their monthly income on housing.
— Median rent in MA is $2,560 a month compared to national median of $1,639.
— To live “comfortably” in MA, a family of four needs an annual income of $313,000 a year.
Granted, the comrades may quibble over some of the numbers, and the median income for Massachusetts residents remains near the top of the 50 states.
But overall, do you see a trend in those numbers?
None of them exactly scream, “Affordability!”
The most damning stat, though, is that one-third of Massachusetts residents have considered fleeing the People’s Republic because of the high cost of living.
That number the Democrats can’t deny, because the survey was done by regime-controlled media — the Boston Globe and Suffolk University.
In December, the Globe took time out from their endless campaign of lionizing racist, misogynist, deadbeat-dad illegal alien savages with slobbering fake-news stories to ask 500 Massachusetts residents how they felt about, you know, affordability.
Do you believe that only one-third of the state’s population would like to get out, if only they could? That’s a lowball number for sure.
Yet Hold-It Healey is not the only Democrat now trying to wrap herself in the “affordability” issue.
In Virginia, the new Democrat regime ran all last fall on the A-word. Now that they’re in office, the hacks have just handed the legislature in Richmond a 178 percent pay raise.
The Republicans in Virginia are already calling it “the affordability hoax.”
After four years in which Democrats squandered trillions of dollars on fraud and lavish welfare for illegal aliens, devaluing the currency in the process, now they claim that they’re concerned about affordability.
But for Healey, talking about the high cost of living and blaming Trump for her own abysmal failures beats talking about the actual state of the Commonwealth.
Consider the fact that days after the most recent blizzard, huge swaths of the state, including much of the South Coast and New Bedford, remain impassable and unplowed.
Yet at the same time, the dizzy dames of the Healey administration say they may need $130 billion to deal with the “threat” of climate change.
The state Democrats and their local hack minions can’t even get the streets plowed in many areas, but they claim they can stop the (alleged) sea-level rise? Just give them another $130 billion — and that’s just for starters.
It used to be said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. Then it became racism.
Now, I think it’s safe to say, Affordability is the last refuge of a scoundrel. A scoundrel named Hold-It Healey.
