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After noting that the NY State is facing a fiscal crisis on Tuesday, Governor David Paterson took the bad news to Washington D.C. Paterson said at the National Press Club that the federal government needs to help invest in things like infrastructure, schools, mass transit and job training, pointing out NY State sent $82.6 billion more to D.C. than it got back. Senator Chris Dodd told the NY Times, though, there just isn't money. On a much lighter note, someone in the audience asked, "Your rise to the governor's seat is, if anything, an illustration of the fallibility of our public officials. What lessons do you draw about the imperfection of politicians?" to which Paterson began, "Be careful when you come to Washington..."
Paterson Wants Feds to Help NY State
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I'm going to sound like a dick, but I have a really hard time looking at his photo and not thinking uncouth thoughts.
Feds help NYC? Bah
too many unions and pension holders for that to happen
NYC sends much more money to Albany than it gets back.
NYS sends much more to DC than it gets back.
NYC has more liberal twats to push taxing and spending as well as corporate robber barons to fleece the system and drive the economy into the ground.
Good luck Davey boy.
I hear you Jen S. Its real tough looking at that pic.
President Bush To N.Y.State: "DROP DEAD."
...sound familiar?
"In the land of the blind, the semi-blind man is king!"
Old Semi-Blind Person Saying
There are many states that are having major financial problems right now. California has a $15 Billion deficit, three times that of New York. As states are not allowed to carry budget deficits, they have to work to limit the damage. The feds can't bail the states out as the feds are under enough red ink as it is.
Time to trim the fat
When will this state learn to live within it's means and stop taxing the living shit out of everybody.
Umm, you don't think maybe Paterson is trying to find a way to address our financial issues WITHOUT extracting more money from us? That seems to be the whole point here, doesn't it?
And when D C says no we will be taxed up the ass because the ball sacks in Albany will never do with less.