New York is broke. And the solution is underfoot. But the Marxists who would live to turn the state into a 3rd world backwater is voted in by the same idiots who complain about the economic situation in the state.
You can’t fix stupid. Especially the Arrogant stupid.
I'll say!
It is okay New York. Go ahead and study it some more.
While you were waiting, we found enough gas elsewhere to take of our current needs.
Maybe we can come back next decade and decide if we need more.
Welcome to the Alaska club.
“.....WHAT IF.....” ???????
What if? A saying in our family was “With the word “if” you could put Paris in a bottle”.
Obviously, if the bottle were big enough, or Paris were small enough.
I'm not going to list the innumerable “what ifs” I could come up with that would be more worrisome than fracking.
The fracking HOAX has replaced the global warming Hoax that was debunked. It's just the latest vehicle for the wacko environMENTALists, who are: Liberals/Progressives/LGBTers/Socialists/elitists and of course are totally CLUELESS!
Talk about “mind numbed robots” SHEESH!
No guns, no big gulps, and now they can’t even frack?? What a dismal place!
I’m reminded of a letter to some newspaper’s “ethicist” a couple of years ago. A couple of fellow travelers made the case that they were good people because they opposed fracking, they had always been good environmentalists, they supported small farms, etc. The dilemma: but now this evil company says they would like to pay us money to frack on *our* land — a *lot* of money for a number of years! What should we do?
Fine by me. The "opposition" of the famous chefs as well.
My family's daily bread comes from the frackin' in the Bakken.
The left does not want it in NY. They have this mythical idea of this pristine upstate NY “play land” that they want to preserve. Upstate NY has been in decline for decades. One only has to look at the remnants of a once great manufacturing center and a great middle class lifestyle it supported.
Shale gas would once again support a manufacturing renaissance and good paying middle class jobs in the upstate, southern tier and western NY regions.
The left are demagogues and simply don’t give a damn how many lives they destroy.
NY used to have a very balanced economy. Upstate manufacturing, mining and farming balanced by trade and finance of NY City
Now it is completely unbalanced. The “financialization” of the US economy by the Fed and its primary-dealer banks means that Wall Street is the only game around. NY City came to dominate NY politics, so fracking-bans, pro-Gov’t and union regulations, and 1000 other rules and laws that make sense to Manhattan Progressives, have destroyed Upstate.
The ideal solution would be to split the State at the Hudson, but that will never happen.
Upstate NY might as well be another country to NYers who live in the NYC metro area. It is the place they get their drinking water, perhaps some local grown food, enjoy recreational activities, and their children might go to a University for a few years, Cornell or SUNY Binghampton. . The idea there are people who live there who need to earn a decent living is of no importance.
The Empire State Divide - Part 1 - Ruins of the Hudson River
The Empire State Divide - Part 2 - A House Divided
The Empire State Divide - Part 3 – A Tale of Two States
Karen presented her short video (along with other people who shared videos on other free market issues) at the Grand Old Picture Show held in Tampa coincidental with the RNC convention last summer.