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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on March 29, 2011, 09:01:46 PM
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Mar-29-11 09:36 PM
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Governor Cuomo to New York's Poor and Middle Class: Drop Dead Updated at 9:36 PM
from Mother Jones:
Governor Cuomo to New York's Poor and Middle Class: Drop Dead
— By James Ridgeway
| Tue Mar. 29, 2011 6:15 AM PDT
There is no country in the industrial world with as great an income disparity between the rich and poor as the United States. And within the US, there is no state where the disparity is more pronounced than New York. New York City was the center of the Great Recession, and today unemployment there stands at 9 percent and is not expected to drop any time soon. At the same time, the financial sector that caused it all has recovered nicely, and the executives are pulling down salaries and perks larger than they did before the recession.
In the midst of all this gross inequality, New York’s millionaires are getting a tax break, thanks to the state's new Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo. Son of liberal ex-governor Mario Cuomo, inheritor of some of the enthusiasm that once surrounded Eliot Spitzer’s campaign, and successor to the weak stand-in David Paterson, Cuomo was elected on a wave of optimism. He even ran on the line of the Working Families Party, an increasingly important progressive player in state politics. Yet Andrew Cuomo has turned out to be just another craven neoliberal. In his most meaningful action to date, he has embraced a budget that would make any Bushite salivate.
In a deal this past weekend, the governor and legislative leaders agreed upon a $132.5 million budget that cuts state spending by 2 percent, largely on the backs of the poor and the sick, women, children, the elderly, and other beneficiaries of state services. It offers next to nothing to the struggling middle class. But for the well-heeled denizens of Wall Street and beyond, there's a promised end to the so-called millionaire's tax passed at the height of the recession. This privileged group has already received a massive boost from the federal government in the form of the financial industry bailout, followed by the extension of the Bush tax cuts. Now they'll receive an extra gift from the state. .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/governor-cuomo-new-...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x770317
Dang almost sounds like the son of Mario is a dirty stinking repuke. :-)
tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Mar-29-11 09:37 PM
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1. Koch-puppet.
Better than the George Soros puppet at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Mar-29-11 09:40 PM
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2. Cuomo....is a Democrat (n/t)
Yep he is so there will be no recall talk on DU.
I'm sure he's still 100% moonbat.
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Yep, even the Democrats know that they eighty year party with OPM is over. Time to get with it DUmmies. A Democrat governor in Wisconsin would have had to do exactly as Scott Walker has done, no matter how bad it burns your britches.
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The NY teachers Union and the public employee (CSEA) unions have written the state budget for decades.
Guess what the result of that was combined with big city liberalism?
We are bankrupt down to the last township.
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Working Families Party...communists in our midst. :censored:
an increasingly important progressive player in state politics.
Sounds a little anemic.
Due in part to the investigation and in part to the WFP's priorities, a number of candidates decided not to pursue the party's ballot line. And a number of them went down to defeat, among them Congressmen Mike McMahon and Mike Arcuri and state Senators Daryl Aubertine and Craig Johnson. And Mike Kaplowitz lost an open seat to Greg Ball.
However, last night was such a bad night for Democrats that even those who took the line did not fare all that well. Congressman John Hall went down to defeat, and state Senators Suzi Oppenheimer and Antoine Thompson may follow him there. A number of candidates did accept the line and were able to eke out a narrow win, among them Congressman Bill Owens and state Senate candidates David Carlucci and Tony Avella.
Observer.com (http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/mixed-bag-working-families-party)
Aubertine up there? I actively worked against. We were able to flip the senate to R with Pattie Riitchie's win over him. O-)
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:bs: the middle class in NY have been suffering bigtime!
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There is no country in the industrial world with as great an income disparity between the rich and poor as the United States.
That right there is the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever seen. Hell, you can go to Honduras to disprove that moonbat theory. You have the have's and the have not's. ...and the have nots don't have a pot to piss in.
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That right there is the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever seen. Hell, you can go to Honduras to disprove that moonbat theory. You have the have's and the have not's. ...and the have nots don't have a pot to piss in.
Hell, go to Mexico.