" This is an unsustainable rate of growth (spending) and it has been for a long time."
The Governor decried taxes 66% above the national average and said Upstate is in particular crisis.
"New Yorkers are voting with their feet. Two million New Yorkers have left in the past decade. We need radical change...a new perspective and we need it now......"
Results not rhetorical solutions....he said.
Mr. Cuomo called for a fundamental relaignment of the State.
"We are going to have to reinvent government....the old way wasn't working anyway"
Mr. Cuomo's call for radical change seems at odds with the Legislature, many of whom were listening to him.
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"Two million NYers have left in the last decade". Andy Cuomo
Not according to Kepwit Thrush, who has repeatedly told us this is a myth.
NY is now California. We are a State of Losers, of selfish, stupid morons. We know we are broke, but our Volvos exite us. We have no problem stealing from our neighbors, justifying it by claims that it benefits children. We care nothing about lost futures and opportunities, as long as our own ass is fat. In a few months, when the next state budget makes clear that special interests will neither step back nor be asked to, we can all take pride and point to each other as the cause for our continued decay. If it weren't for the humor factor, it would be a sad situation. Me, I kinda like it.
Why would a young person stay if minimum wage is all they can hope for with the service industry? I won't mention the Hotels/Motels, but you can be called a Manager at some and make minimum wage, and that's not much of a life for you or your family. We need to grow the area and attract Corporations and Factory jobs that pay decent wages to our citizens, etc.
MCM
Ah yes, attract them like your party has always done Mikey, by taxing them into leaving the state. That's why all our good jobs left, the companies you and yours love to hate left along with them. Flynn me Boy, there comes a time when yous have to make sense.
Maybe a hotel could pay more than minimum wage if they did not have to pay tax that goes toward things like the chamber of commerce and their bureaucratic high paid leader?
Anon 12:58
Okay I'll try to make sense in your world, check out the growth rate of our economy Bush's last year in office which President Obama inherited and then had to deal with his first year. Obama will be seen as a miravle worker by historians. And that only makes sense to me!
MCM
Yes Mr Mike, you try to make some sense in our world. Start out by labeling Prez O a miracle worker. A man who has spent like no prez in history and has no chance of paying for a fraction of his programs. Let's just call him a miracle worker. And the fact that NYS is last in about everything good and first in about everything bad, well, that's gotta be George Bush's fault. Mike, there's nothing to say. I can only suggest a bigger hat. Something is constricting your blood flow. Please tell us how GW made NY the armpit of the union? Don't reply right away, I have to get some state issued popcorn. I wanna be comfortable while listening to the show.
News Flash MMM Rite Aid has Ghia Pet heads in the shape of Obama, 50% off, hurry hurry.
And why does everyone agree that Pres. Obama and Nancy Pelosi were the most successful team we've seen in decades, in getting their program approved in Congress or did you miss that part Anons 7:42 and 8:46. Get real, the proof is in the doing and what have your people done lately that approaches their achievements while in office.
MCM
Everybody agrees that O and Pelosi were the most successful team in history? Is that what you said this time, Mikey? And that's why they lost bigger than any party has since 1938. And we have no idea if we are going to be able to pull out of the economic tail spin we are in. Yet you tell us to get real? Mike, there's just nothing to say to you. Folks are shaking their heads listening to your take on things. I have now changed my mind on one thing. Those windmills that Wiley hates so much should not be built in Cape Vincent. They should be right outside your door.
Anon 5:42
I'd like them on my property and I'll negotiate a better deal then any township has up this way and you can bet on that sir. When I say get real, I'm talking about some of the greatest legislation in my life being passed by this President and he gets reelected in 2012. You Republicans are a sad lot. You didn't win in terms of selling a program that you wanted to enact. Get the difference, you did what you did at poles because people were pissed that jobs weren't created and taxes cut quick enough. I'll point to Tim Gietner, Obama's choice to save 'Wall Street' and 'Banks' first and Us second, but that's the hand the President was delt by Bush and Hank Paulson, another Goldman Sachs wonder worker who boroughed a trilliuon to help out Goldman and Others. He earned about 400 mil at Goldman, that's why he liked them so much.
MCM
I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe it's a bit late. Methinks you're showing your Irish.
Anon: Until you understand Goldman Sachs men in Bush White House, Hank Paulson and Pres. Obama's Tim Gietner, and the saving of AIG, and others, you're not going to have a clue about what freight train rolled over your economic life. Now we have Mr. Daley coming in from the Chicago 'Hedge Fund World' and that at least pushes back the Goldman Sachs influence for a while, so we can get the banks acting on behalf of the Countries interests not the interest of the Banks themselves. If you can't understand this you've been played for a fool by the Wall Street crowd. Just keep in mind the Hedge Fund people are gearing up to get into the mortgage lending business in a big way and that might be a very bad thing all over again. This went across party lines, Paulson demanded first Trillion and Gietner got the second Trillion, but they were Goldman Sachs guys all the way through the crisis.
MCM
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