Recently, UMass has been highlighted in the news as a blob of misallocated payroll during the Baystates fiscal crisis. Fact is, the Boston police are the ones abusing tax payers.

Who is pushing this UMass payroll agenda through the Boston Metro and Globe? Quite frankly I call bullshit, as does whachamacallit on boston.com:

UMass . . . wake up, Citizens! High quality education costs big bucks,. The University’s mission is to provide a high quality education at an affordable cost. This is not necessarily happening as a result of taxpayer dollars. The Commonwealth has always underfunded "public" higher education. Currently, the state only funds public higher ed’s expenses at about 30%. What a joke! MA is always in the bottom (right next to Alabama and Mississippi) for its support of public higher education. In fact, I often wonder how the state can claim that it has a public higher education system when it does not even contribute at least 50% of the budget needed to operate. It is shameful! The monies primarily are raised from benefactors and the students. But, I digress. Let me simply remind you that the majority of public employees (including those at UMass) are dedicated, conscientious, professional and educated taxpayers themselves.

The police payroll for 2008 totaled $292.3 million.

 

More than 1,400 Boston police officers, or 63 percent of the force, earned more than $100,000 in 2008, according to payroll figures obtained by News Center 5. 

Where is the outrage? The commonwealth of massachusetts paid roughly $1,000,000 every month to police officers detailing the Ted Williams ceiling panel reconstruction.