Economy is fodder for pols' cracks at St. Patrick's Day breakfast

Yeah, hilarious. Every one of those jackals in the audience represents a qualified, honest worker whose "juice" couldn't get him/her a job. These folks are about to learn the concept of a "tipping point".

Wow....amatuer hour at it's lowest.....they fiddle with jokes and songs of our plight.....thousands upon thousands of good hard-working folk's lives and lively/hoods have been dashed with unemployment unabated.....public safety personnel jobs dumped like hefty trash bags....and these Phillistines make light of the ordinary working man and woman stressing out to just get by nowadays.....here they are folks.......all together they can!!

Hart's joke would have been funnier if his retirement depended on a 401K plan and not a taxpayer funded pension scheme. Rememer, they were not laughing at us, they were laughing with us. One note concerning the Governor's implication that the problems with our transportation were the result of decisions by past Republican Governors: using this logic, the problems facing the United Kingdom are the fault of the Queen.

These pols make me sick. They joke about our 401Ks. What do they know about them, they just keep increasing their own pensions at our expense. Governor Patrick has taken good care of Marion Walsh and her family. The rest of us can eat cake. This St. Pat's breakfast has become a disgusting farce.

I have as much, if not more, of an appreciation for humor as the next person. However, those not on the public payroll, those who CAN lose their jobs and homes, those who are not guaranteed disproportionate pensions, those who are making daily decisons between rent/mortgage, utilities, food and more ... these people do not see this as a matter for humor. The governor and most of the elected people we have now are jokes at best, taking care of local pork and self-interest, but what they have done is not funny. Time to clean house.

this is such a tired old ceremony. It is time for it to go away along with those who participate.

If I was that insulated from the recession, I'd be laughing too.

Gee, these guys are so funny. What a waste of time: self-adulation among self-aggrandizing politicians. Yes, it's all so hilarious. Why not a few jokes about the padded pensions, rip-off fees, and ridiculous "part-time" salaries these guys collect. While you're at it, why not just show up at the taxpayer's front doors and pee all over them.

Menino had the funniest line when arriving late, he stated his water heater had let go and said, "Do you know how hard it is to find a city worker on a Sunday?"

What disgusting individuals finding the economy funny. With their sickening patronage and pensions it is time to string them all up start with Fenneran the Felon and proceed through the ranks. Massachusetts is a disgrace if these are our "leaders" and they find other people's plights funny.

I'm glad governor Erkel thinks people suffering is funny. I hope he thinks his current term being his last term is just as funny.

Nice. Make fun off the drop in our 401(k)s when you have guaranteed pensions paid for by us, the taxpayers. Make fun of the need to tax us more when we are all struggling to keep our jobs and the only people being hired are connected politicians. A great show of how disconnected the Beacon Hill elite are from the rest of us. Oh we have to raise taxes (laugh), Oh their 401(k)s are decimated (laugh). But we are the ones bearing all the pain. Together we can make some change. Let's replace these pols with ones who care more about us than themselves.

Oh, isn't this funny. AIG just gave it's top exectutive's million dollar bonus's, of which it is OUR MONEY, people have lost their jobs, home's, standing in line for food, and as usual, we have to hear about all the funny stuff during the boring, St. Patrick's day meal.

Give me a break, wake up people.

I used to watch the breakfast, but it's insulting now. People are dying for tax relief and these dopes are joking about it, like they say, "all the way to the bank"...
A pack of fools, but who's the fools now? We elected them...

I am so glad that Cadillac Deval could make it back from his vacation with his State Police entourage. Must be nice making fun of folks despair with the rest of the state politicians. Ah...by the way...don't they work for US!!! THIEVES!!!

Are we supposed to laugh about these politicians and everything the mess up because of a stupid breakfast. These guys should be embarassed!!

They are the jokes. Deval and all.

I protested against super hack Marion Walsh today at the convention center. I was the only one against this hack besides the moonbats against George Bush. These POS politicians are going to keep getting away with this until they are confronted. And by the way ,these bleepbums are the most Unfunny clowns I have ever heard. It looks like time to hire some jokewriters again you losers

All the suck up union hacks musta got a big laugh out of the "Big Dig debt" joke....will they be laughing when we hang a "Union Built" sign on the ceilings and leaking walls of the Big Dig tunnels? This town is crawling with corruption. Travis Bickle said it best....Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

Stop whining Bostonians!!!!! You idiots voted for these people! What the heck were you thinking?!?!?!?!? This is what you get. You vote in idiots you get screwed, its as simple as that. Maybe if you had a single coherent thought in your heads you'd realize what a bad idea it is re-electing the same crop of criminals term after term.

WAKE UP BOSTON! THESE THEIVES ARE MOCKING YOU! If you want them to take their collective hands out of your pockets then try growing a brain and a spine. ACT!! Vote them all out - the theiving bloody lot!

Please....don't remind me that I voted for these insensitive, incompetent jerks. My gawd........balance a budget by not overspending like we do in our own homes. Come up with some new ideas which was the reason we voted for the governor. I have never been so disgusted as to see the merriment about the economy when so many are in the state are hurting. I have also never felt so us..... against them before from a bunch of political hacks. And please ....lets not think that the big blond goof ball will do any better when Governor one and out has left the state. New blood, new ideas.....VOTE THEM OUT! Let's surprise them by having remembered this moment next election. Also remember....most took their nice raises this year!!! Did you get a raise?

You people have to be kidding me! Have we lost our ability to laugh? Have we decided that everyone that holds office, be it City Councilor, State Rep, Treasurer, or even School Committee member, is evil and trying to undermine our everyday lives? Try looking in the mirror. The system has been in place for over two hundred years and has provided us with quality of life. The political system is not broken. The media has contributed to this witch hunt and many of you are falling for it. Transparency in government??? What has that done thus far? It has deterred quality people from wanting to run for office because they do not want their lives, and their families, opened up for constant criticism. Thus, you have a smaller amount of people with qualifications seeking office now. Good job media. Keep it up. What group is slated for your next investigation? Teachers? Coaches? EMT's? No wonder the next generation has lost interest in reading newspapers and watching the news at 6 and 11.

Ah ta be sure, stop your whinging ya Boston leprechauns. Get on with it and show me yer pot o' gold. Skid da diddle da doodle...

"Together we can" does is sound familiar? What he really meant was "Together we CON". The present occupant of the governor's seat
is really Bernie Mahoff. The number one con artist in this state (of chaos).
Also, I really would like someone to answer a question: Does this state have an Attorney General and if we do -who is it?