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Silver: The Dictator Governors Made Me Do It

posted by Larry Littlefield
Mon, 08/16/2010 - 7:36pm
That's what he said, but it isn't true. He had no trouble saying no when he wanted to, unlike his members who are required to say yes. What he said yes to is what he has done. Silver's supporters have been given taken the highest state and local tax burden as a share of personal income in the U.S., and have provided less in return, mostly by diverting resources to those who do not work. Yes the Republicans and their contractor and Wall Street backers got their piece and their tax breaks too. And to keep the serfs from objecting, most of the cost was pushed off to a future none of them cared about to be inhabited by people none of them care about either.  We will pay more and more, and get less and less, as the beneficiaries die or leave for Florida with the difference.

Pataki and Bruno are gone, Thank God, but their damage lives on. Silver's still increases.  There were no dictators.  Silver and his backers got their piece of our hides.


Why I'm Posting Less
Submitted by Larry Littlefield on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 7:44pm.
The 2007 Census of Governments data, and 2008 annual data, has been released. Unfortunately, the Governments Division of the Census Bureau has been hit with the mass retirement of everyone I had previously worked with, budget cuts to their staff, and the increasing refusal of some governments (not in NY) to provide data on their financial situation.

As a result, detailed data is not being made available in the easy to use form it has been in the past. I've had to work several weekends, and pay a consultant $250 to improve my Excel skills, just to (almost) get the data to the point I would have started in the past. (And I'll only be tabulating local government data for counties in New York, not for comparable counties in other states as I have in the past).

In any event, in September and October I'll have some tables to talk about. And people can decide for themselves if they agree that the problem is Silver's generation and producers (and former producers) of public services should have it better, and younger generations and average people who are neither Wall Streeters nor producers of public services, but rather tax payers and consumers of public services, have it too good.

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you're right
Submitted by Anonymous bosch (not verified) on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 7:46am.
this is why i'm so po'd at the repubs who threw levy under the bus; the anointed one for all his 250 pages of bs is a dem at heart and will become a lackey to silver; levy might have given us some fireworks for a term; ah well.  the bs continues, time to move; tryin' to figure out how to run my business totally internet; nice views from the mountains in co.
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