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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 PMOriginal messageGovernor 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 PDTThere 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-...
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 PMResponse to Original message1. Koch-puppet.
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 PMResponse to Original message2. Cuomo....is a Democrat (n/t)
an increasingly important progressive player in state politics.
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.
"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats
There is no country in the industrial world with as great an income disparity between the rich and poor as the United States.
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site
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.
