[Zuben Elgenubi]

New York state has “lost 26,344 manufacturing jobs and 810 manufacturers since August of last year.” Western New York has been hit particularly hard, losing 3,000 manufacturing jobs — the good-paying kind — in the past year.

[stylin19a]

well there ya go...she only promised Northern NY State she would stop the loss of jobs....(that didn’t work either)

[stylin19a]

well there ya go...she only promised Northern NY State she would stop the loss of jobs....(that didn’t work either)

[Chode]

and they are going to lose another 400 at DR in Corning if the union azzholes keep the strike going much longer too...

[IMTOFT]

I work for a privately-held, 60+ year-old upstate NY manufacturer. We’ve recently opened a new plant in the Southwest, and will probably open or acquire a plant in the Southeast within a few years. Our Southwest plant has doubled in capacity within a year, and will double again in the next year. Our business is growing, but NOT in NY state. I can envision a time in the not-so-distant future where the business will relocate to somewhere in the south. The owners have told me that dealing with NY local and state governments, and all the related taxes, is utterly repressive.

Upstate NY is dead and/or dying from a manufacturing standpoint depending upon the area. Government, state and local, have totally failed the entire upstate NY area. Their practice of static economics (i.e., less people = more taxes) will cause a financial collapse at some point.

Why more people aren’t upset and demanding change is an absolute mystery to me...They are all to blame, Pataki, Silver, Bruno, Clinton, Schumer, now Spitzer, you name them, they’ve all failed upstate NY and will continue to do so...after all, the votes and the money are in NYC, so who cares about upstate?

Sorry for the rant, but this is really a good place to raise a family, good housing, good environment (except the winters!) But the American dream is dead in upstate NY, no longer can a family survive on a single income nor hope for a good paying job with a good future...hello, North Carolina, or Virginia, or Alabama, or South Carolina, or Texas, anywhere but upstate NY...