Governor Cuomo is popular...A new poll gives him a 70% approval rating...
These things are deceptive and are not an indication of an ability to achieve the budget cuts and structural changes the Governor outlined in his State of the State Address.
Remember, Governor Spitzer....He was elected with 69% of the vote....
There are an awful lot of people doing fine off the way things are...Do they want change ?
The forces for the status quo have the edge as they are the ones who fund campaigns and have the lobbyists......As one veteran GOP operative told me Friday after the Governor addressed a big crowd....'The people in the room are all the ones at the trough...." Meaning their applause was perfunctory and insincere.
Of course, veteran operatives are known as much for their cynicism as their insight....So we have to wait and see...Suffice to say, for the moment our new Governor is winning the day...But as we all like to say..the devil is in the details.
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Nope, he has no window for change. When the specifics are made known regarding where cuts are to be made, they will be dead upon presentation. We will be lucky if we come out with a budget freeze. I dont' even think specific cuts will make it to the proposal stage. Its really not Andy's fault. We've known this day was coming for a long time, yet we've allowed our decisions to be made by the teacher union and Thug Sheldon. Nothing has changed. Do you realize how many people make their living by sucking off the work of others? This is the Empire State, and it is not the taxpayer's empire.
Will Patty and other Republicans act they like ran and our supposed to act buy supporting Cuomo's budget cuts or even cut more? This is gut check time, they ran on cutting the state budget. You cannot refuse to make cuts without offering your own to offset it or even cut more. No more spin, act like leaders and lead or get out of the way. If not I think they will have no cred with the voters in two years.
Where is it written that Patty is supposed to support Cuomo's budget cuts? She can come up with her own and then they might be smart instead of designed to make us reject them. Unlike Cuomo she has a tack record of putting government in the black.
So far Cuomo is talking about cutting the wrong way. I am sure we need to cut jobs but way more important is that we need to cut pay and benefits, and most importantly mandates. Lets look at a deputy sheriffs pay and compare it to a troopers pay shall we? Or a country CO compared to a state CO. Or a a flagman compared to a construction position that is not "prevailing rate".
So far Cuomo is doing what our superintendents do. Proposing cutting positions or closing entire prisons which will overtly hurt us instead of cutting the things we don't see and wouldn't miss.
News flash...Cuomo is a liberal democrat.
On a side note...I read in the paper that the city will vote on taking free money for carbon monoxide detectors and then we pay 10% of the $20k grant.
Jeff, do you have the balls to vote against that? More men die of breast cancer every year than die of carbon monoxide. So the money would be better spent on mammograms for men. Or lighting rods...take your pick. How is this homeland security?
Who the hell is this 1:52 guy? I like his take on things. Not the usual. This person helps our blog.
The main concern for the Middle-Class and Working Class families of the area is we can’t pay bills with “Promises! Promises! and if the Governor, who spoke to a ‘Property Cap now, and ‘Tax Relief’ for homeowners when spending is under control fails to deliver on that promise. I’d have very serious concerns, because I didn’t work to elect a Union busting, cost cutting at all costs, Republican. I worked to elect a Democrat, and while I would never want to be on the wrong side of Andrew Cuomo’s program, that program has to include getting more disposable income into the hands of the Middle-Class. We can talk the talk about belt tightening, but the Middle-Class cannot foot the entire bill for the failure of NYS and the Federal Government to pass effective regulations, to keep 'Wall Street' from stealing the economy of our nation. These same people feel investing government money for their own purposes, after we the public foot the bill is A-okay. It’s not! As we see when a small business owner can’t get a loan, because banks feel its ‘Too Risky,’ as if they are ever risk adverse when it comes to making a buck!
Governor Cuomo, the Middle and Working Class families of the area are depending on you to follow-up your first year in office with real tax relief.
MCM
Good to see 60% of REPUBICANS support him.
IF he is willing to sacrifice a 2nd term, it CAN be done.
Or maybe that was his plan all along. Do some cutting in NY and run for Senate, Pres or VP in '12.
Ny's spending problems are due to 1)crazy levels of state employment coupled w/ridiculous UNION contracts. 2) overly generous social programs. Both have been sacred cows for too long. Good luck Gov. You can borrow my chain saw if you need it.
Signed,
Lifelong Republican
Mike,I have done hard labor my whole life starting as newz paper boy at 14 to McDonalds on to the resturant buis to roofing and siding.Furniture guy heavy duty parts delivery until I got hurt how about you.Most of the middle class you talk about does not exist anymore,you are either poor or rich these days.It was so frustrating watchimg people get payed more for doing nothing,sometimes double with benifits my body feels it Im 35 now my bones creek.Public Union jobs along with other fields that are robbing the state with little production at all have to be overhauled....I wish that I could have a retirement almost a consistant 20 year career of hard labor I was working two jobs in high school its all recorded I did not get the gold spoon nor did I apply fro pell grants for J.C.C I did get some aid school wasnt for me I had to survive,,I feel for the people who will have to adjust and realy have to do hard work for once in there lives.....NOT
Congratulations on being "rich" Juston.
I mean...I assume anyone that is poor would not have the luxury of a computer to post opinions on a blog. Nor would they have the luxury of free time to do so either.
Have you ever seen that show called International House Hunters?
It sure is interesting to see what passes for a middle class home in about every other country would pass for a "poor" persons home in this country.
The point being that one of the chief reasons our government spends so much is because of our impractical definition of what "poor" means. We're on the verge of giving "free" carbon monoxide detectors to poor people in this city , courtesy of home land security and 10% city tax dollars. Something that barley existed a few decades ago is now pushed as a "necessity" by the pyromaniacs, and no one ever questions it.
Juston, it's not that I think you're a bad guy or anything, I just feel you're way off base thinking you've worked any harder then I have in my life. I had my first shape up job at a loading dock at 15 and a half, and my father beat me because he was only 14 yrs old. So get real and I by the way I paid for my own education as well, never bothered me. What we accomplished is great, some people, sometimes need a little help, what's so bad about that Juston?
MCM
And there's Mikey, going on record that he doesn't want to cut costs, but in the same breath lamenting high taxes. I suppose you don't see any connection, Mr Mike? Its just that kind of mind block that makes you a perfect party line Donkey and typical citizen of the Empire State. You cannot have it both ways. It really is pretty simple, Mr Man.
Now you got beat,ok well I grew up in the low income housing East Hills you know the place I was buying my sisters school clothes for her at age 13 my mom could not afford to feed us on her North land Electric salarie.My Dad never stayed around to beat me my mom had to do that or some stranger that I was trying to get fed by.In response to your post anon10:54 I am far from rich I was making a point,there is no middle ground.Now I do own my land in the city I am in the process of trying to buy this out here.I have been blessed to have made it out of the mess my family grew up in,as a matter of fact most of my huge family in this area is doing ok.We are all blessed to live in this country not have to pick out of the garbage in some third world country.It seems to me that you are one of those people who would rather see us go back then move foward 10:54.I would assume that you have a little coward in your blood when you come on hear anonymous running your fingers on the key board like you know something about me adleast make a Google blog.Poor people have time to type weather it be on the computer at the local library that was donated by some rich guy like yourself im sure you have a government job with all kinds of time on your hands to judge people like me at the water cooler.I am who I am who are you BOO....Lmao Mike no hard feelings sorry your dad beat you...I am rich by the way rich in life....
Juston, listen be proud of your life history. My father was apprenticed at 15, in Liverpool, voted the toughest city in the world by many, to a 5 yr tugboat program on the 'Thames' river. 60 minutes did a piece on this program a decade ago. He learned everything you could learn about tugs and eventually, worked for Mobil in this country, when barge traffic was king. All I was saying is my dad beat me into the real world and had it tougher. True of most of our parents. My dad never failed to put his hand out to a person in need. He was a better man than me, but I try to follow in his footsteps.
MCM
Juston you took my post the wrong way. You yourself said you are "rich in life". You no longer have to go hungry. That was my point. today you are considered poor if you don't have a carbon monoxide detector. I bet you would have been happy with the food when you were growing up and could care less about the one in a million chance of CO poisoning.
I was working on my family farm from first grade. My job was to feed the chickens and get the eggs before school. Pile wood and bring it up from the basement. We did not have extra clothes and the house was always 45 degrees when we got up in the morning, but i never thought we were poor except that we could not afford a snow mobile or a cb radio. We always had food but often it was not very good food. Powdered milk and instant potatoes and a tub of margarine instead of butter...that sort of thing.
by todays standards we would have been considered poverty. That is my point...Which was to disagree with you...that there is a middle ground...a middle class...we simply have raised the bar from what it used to be measured.
Congratulations on making a good life for yourself. And count yourself lucky that your dad was not around much because it used to be in fashion to hit kids for every little offense.
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