Stimulus Plan Favors New York, Thanks to Schumer

The economic stimulus package will benefit New York more than any other state in several crucial ways, and Washington insiders say Senator Chuck Schumer deserves a lot of the credit. Much of the allocation is still being determined, but as it stands now, New York will receive more money for Medicaid relief ($12.6 billion), mass transit ($1.3 billion) and home weatherization ($403 million) than any other state. Schumer is widely credited with big Democratic wins in the Senate in the 2006 elections, and one unnamed Democratic "insider" tells the Daily News, "Pretty much everyone from Harry Reid on down owes their job to Chuck. So whatever Chuck wants, Chuck gets." And it's not just Chuck; even less senior players like Rep. Anthony Weiner have been bringing home the bacon, securing $390 million to help New York's aging housing projects. But Weiner explains that part of the recent legislative success simply has to do with the end of the Dubya era: "Trying to explain public housing elevators to the Bush administration was the equivalent of talking French to a fish."

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By John Del Signore in News on February 17, 2009 10:59 AM

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Zyskandar A Jaimot

SENATURD CHUCK'the-schmuck'SCHUMER claiming credit with PREZ BARACH'incurably-dishonest'OBAMA for enslaving NY'ers with HIGHER TAXES for them and their chikdren's children all for the glory of CRAPPY COMMUNISM & MORONIC MARXISM!!! ADIOS AMERICA hello SOCIALISTA-ESTADOS-de-AMERIKA.

S.D.

Are you sure your Not "HUGO MEGO" reborn?

You have so much in common...

Tgirl

stock market HATES this bill

S.D.

Well, the stock market hates anything less than teh Gov't buying bad assets.

missbloom

But how about this:

NY's economy depends heavily on the arts and culture industry yet Schumer for some reason voted for the Coburn amendment, which would have specifically excluded museums and art centers from receiving stimulus funds. What's that about?

Toby von Meistersinger

With an oink-oink here and an oink-oink there.

Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink-oink.

ides_of_march

This is basically the latest installment of the Federal government's treasonous selling out of America to international banking that began in 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve.

S.D.

"treasonous"??

You channeling Ann Coulter again?

At the risk of feeding your possible psychosis: How is the establishment of the Federal Reserve "treasonous"??

Just curious.

ides_of_march

Do some research, and not just reading bumper stickers off the back of some hippy's Volvo.

The Federal Reserve is not federal, it's a collection of private international banks that have been given control of our currency and allowed to lend us our own money and charge us interest on it. Cowardly handing over the country's economic sovereignty to foreign, unnacountable entities and selling off the American people into financial servitude, they might as well have wiped their asses with the Declaration of Independence. Yeah, I'd call that treason.

Politburo

Perhaps you should do some research. Treason is defined in the Constitution as follows:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
How does establishing the Federal Reserve System fit into that definition?

S.D.

Shhhh!!! You'll spoil his day...

S.D.

"Cowardly handing over the country's economic sovereignty to foreign, unnacountable entities and selling off the American people into financial servitude, they might as well have wiped their asses with the Declaration of Independence. Yeah, I'd call that treason."

Me, I'd call that a run on sentence. Um, are you talking about this Federal Reserve?

Loved the "some hippy's Volvo." part. What year do you think this is?

*AND* You do read Ann Coulter, right?

fugothamist

if you are seriously interested, i recomend this video:

fugothamist

(forgot the link)

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse

Felix Hoenikker

Let's say your dad racks up a gambling debt and hocks the house to the local mafia loanshark. I'd call that behavior treasonous.

In the case of the Fed, the loansharks are the Chinese and Saudis et.al.

Don't think that being in hock to these countries doesn't steer our foreign and domestic monetary policy.

blablanyc

It's not that the Bush administration didn't understand what Schumer was talking about when it came to public housing elevators. The Bush admin didn't believe the city should be a landlord. Stop the welfare.

TKaisen

The Bush administration had no problem giving the new suburbs new highways and roads. Why isn't that considered welfare for the suburban middle class?

Highways = public housing? Really? Stop it.

ANGRYGOD11

The Bush administration had no problem giving the new suburbs new highways and roads. Why isn't that considered welfare for the suburban middle class?

ides_of_march

The federal government can't give you somnething they haven't taken from you already.

In this case it's, even worse; they're giving us money they don't even have yet and we'll be paying off the gargantuan interest for generations to come. Then there's the inevitable inflation that will devalue all your savings right now as the dollar collapses. Weimar Germany anyone? Got a wheel barrow?

If you're dumb enough to fall for Schumer's Santa Claus act, you deserve to get screwed, although I do feel sorry for your grandkids and their kids.

Politburo

And out comes the typical RW prediction of Weimar Germany style hyperinflation..

Can you make any substantive argument to back up such a ludicrous claim?