Wake up NY........

OK, lets see it has been over 70 days and our budget is still not done.  Yet our Politicians still have time to sit down and act like school kids fighting over who is at fault.   If they have to time and sit a throw blame they have time to work out our budget.  It's odd how the Democrats have the NY Senate vote's but yet they still can not get anything passed.  I know this is going to sound bad, but I really, really do want to the State to shut down.  Then finally the people of NY will open their eye's and show the people who say they have our best interest that they need to go.  This State is a Tax and Spend State and it will not change until someone like the Governor finally says you have to make cuts. I find it funny that the people that make our laws and what and how much things are going to cost never say" Hey I know it will hurt, I feel it also".  I mean if you are making a 6 figure salary and all the perks from the State these thing will not affect you.  But us blue collar and working class slobs who live pay check to pay check will suffer the most.  And I feel real bad for those that have to work two jobs just to get by.

New York Senators
Stop hurting the people who live here.  I mean come on, even though it was (or is ) BS the Soda Tax is a joke. I know that by forcing me to drink Diet Pepsi will help me keep my weight down and is better for me, But ooh wait that is right I weight 175 soaking wet.  So how the hell is it going to help me. But it is another way for the State to make money.  As is they want to hit smokers AGAIN.  Now we(they) know that smokers are not going to stop, just because of the price.  Yes we lose some due to the price, but us smokers are going to continue and that is what the State wants.  So now that people have gone to rolling their own, the State saw that and said hey we have another way to get more money......  Let's face it the State does not increase a tax from 48% to 98% to help people.  They want the extra cash.  I am just waiting to see a Trooper at the VT border asking to check my car to see what I bought out of State due to it's cheaper.

God it is harder and harder to say " I Love NY" everyday due to the way this state is run.

RollOver or get Tough????

Time Warner has been airing ads complaining that Fox wants to raise their rates up to 300%.
http://rolloverorgettough.com/sites/default/files/Proof_8.75x11_v2.pdf this is where you can see that that say it.

Well Oddly Fox News Corp. wants to charge Time Warner Cable (TWC) $1 per subscriber for airing its broadcast station, That sounds step....( Really) .

Well guess what on TW website under the FAQ they are asked "Will our rates go up if you come to an agreement?" Their answer is........
"Not necessarily immediately, but programming costs continue to increase every year. And if we meet the demands requested by these networks, they will increase significantly. That is why we are doing everything possible to control programming costs now."

And today they announce that rates are going up buy up to 10%. WTF, you just said rates will not go up unless you pay the rate increase. Well you have not paid it, and yet you are raising my rates by up 14.00 a month.
So should we get TOUGH or ROLLOVER ?????????????????
You tell me.

Rangel rangeling again.

Two years after creating a center in his own name at City College, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has come through with a $3 million defense grant for the school -- for a project the Pentagon doesn't even want, The Post has learned.

The $3 million cash infusion is going to an existing academic department, rather than to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at CCNY, a $30 million project that will immortalize Rangel's name and house his papers when he retires. Rangel had previously arranged $2 million in taxpayer funds for the center.

The latest piece of congressional pork is to fund research into new composite materials that could be used to protect Army trucks from attack. The grant is tucked into the massive Defense Appropriations Bill moving through Congress.

Word of the funding comes as the House is set to vote today on a Republican-backed resolution to strip Rangel of his Ways and Means Committee chair pending an ethics investigation, after revelations that he didn't disclose income on multiple properties, as well as failure to pay taxes and other issues.

The Pentagon doesn't want the research money, but Rangel got the funding anyway by getting the Appropriations Committee to direct the cash to CCNY.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver still leads NY down hill.

Did Gov. Paterson dole out a six-figure, do-nothing job as a golden parachute for a politically connected bureaucrat — just as the state faced its worst fiscal crisis in a generation?

Let’s hope he did.

Because the alternative — that the governor was actually taking the counsel of Downtown development chief Avi Schick — would be truly frightening.

The Post’s Tom Topousis reported recently that Paterson quietly let Schick keep drawing his $213,000-a-year state salary for eight months after he’d resigned as head of the state’s economic-development agency in January — by hiring him as an “adviser” on Downtown rebuilding.

Schick, a close ally of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, remains the (unpaid) chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., where he’s dawdled for years over the deconstruction of the former Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero.

What kind of advice could Schick possibly have to offer — creative new ways to further stall work?

Most likely, Schick was merely given the adviser post to kill time. He left that job this month mere days before he was hired by a Manhattan law office.

Then again, given Paterson’s recent fecklessness on Ground Zero — notably his inability to mitigate the latest dispute between the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein — it wouldn’t be surprising if Schick did have his ear.

Either way, the payout’s outrageous.

It’s bad enough to take lousy advice — worse yet to pay for it with

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Senate votes to defund ACORN In a show of bipartisan common sense, the Senate has voted 83-7 to remove federal funds from ACORN, the community organizing group dedicated to voter fraud and embezzling public funds. ACORN is an organized crime syndicate masquerading as a community service group. The only things it should receive from Congress are subpoenas.Kudos to Senators from both parties who bowed to common sense and approved the Johanns. Let's hope this kind of behavior is contagious and makes it over to the House.

Now I want to know who the 7 jackasses are that voted against this. Wonder who's pock they are in???????

thinks that No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. And no one should be denied insurance for a pre-existing condition. If you agree, please post this

Pork in New York.

I just checked out a link on the Times Union website that is showing the pork in the budget. I want to know since when did the largest legalized mafia ( the Catholic Church ) get money from the State. The church is closing down schools and church's due to not having enough money. But yet in Albany county I see that they are getting almost half a million tax dollars, to fund sport complexes and Art centers. Keep up the great work Breslin. See where they are wasting your money. http://www.timesunion.com/data/pork/