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[Gerish]

They want to do away with red tape, bring salaries and benefits in state jobs back into line with the private sector

But they are part of the problem. My neighbor works for the State of New York and has benefits like no other job I have ever heard of. He has more time off (personal days, sick days, vacation days, political correct holidays) than any private job would provide. I love when he complains that the State would like them to kick in for more of their health insurance i.e co-payments for doctor appointments. He feels he is entitled to free everything.

Agree with article though that the problem lies with all those liars in Albany.

[Redbob]

"...now, progress relies on citizen groups pestering our leaders"

As it always has.

[Vaquero]

I am ready to leave myself...if can get my significant other to go.

Here is a rosy little fact for you. I shoot Cowboy Action Shooting matches. If people come with their kids to shoot pistols at sanctioned matches....their kids can shoot. If my kid shoots in a santioned match he cannot touch pistols. He is a second class citizen...He is a New Yorker.

Thank you Silver, Bruno, and Pataki....

2 RINOs and a Jackass.

and thats just scratching the surface.


Most NY counties are RED but the population centers in NY, Buffalo, Albany etc. are Blue, so it is a Blue State.

I want to live and vote in a RED state.

[NativeNewYorker]

Albany is a festering sore that will never stop stealing. Every decade an entire congressional district moves from NY to FL. The City is ok, but its burbs are pathetically expensive and offer little that similar communities elsewhere don't provide. Upstate has awful weather 9 months a year AND confiscatory taxation. No wonder folks leave for greener pastures.

[alarm rider]

I feel sorry for New Yorkers for the most part. Having silly gun laws, tax burdens and your two Senators must be a large pain in the butt.

[RogerFGay]

What a disturbing statistic: Between 2000 and 2004, about 183,000 more people left New York state than moved here from other states.

Disturbing? Maybe predictable and about time! I remember discussing this at TheAtlantic Online forum several times. New York taxes + New York City taxes are so high that it's amazing people live there at all. Why? Well -- ever stop to think that it's because there are so many people in the city area? There should be a natural cause and effect -- economics of population that tends toward balance. But of course there will also always be people who cry that the sky is falling whenever their assumptions about what is good fail.

New York grows and grows and grows -- not really good.

New York population in check, splits at the seams and bleeds people -- probably the only way to keep it from exploding so powerfully that it destroys the rest of the country.

[1Old Pro]

There is no turht to the rumor that there is NO prosperity in New York......the politicians have benefitted greatly.