Posted on 07/05/2009 1:36:44 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
STATE GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN SO CLOWNISH, SO EVIL, SO IRRELEVANT
Having witnessed the anarchy, chaos and lack of leadership that has engulfed the state Capitol during the past month, I have a painful confession to make.
After three decades as a journalist covering state government, if I had to do it all over again, I'd find another job.
I've covered Govs. Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson and for New York to wind up like this after 35 years of modern leadership, it's clear to me that my real job has been to chronicle the devolution -- the decay and decline -- of New York state.
We're going backwards, not forwards, and of late we've even been falling apart.
The Empire State -- once a beacon of progressive state government to the nation -- is on the brink of ruin. And it doesn't look like anything can be done to stop it.
In two words: We're doomed.
Hapless Gov. Paterson and the street-fighting leaders of the state Senate have, as everyone knows, turned state government into a national laughingstock.
Within the Capitol itself, where knowledge of the disaster is more acute, the assessments are far harsher and more personally painful. They are disbelief, disgust, and even despair.
I've had a dozen low- to mid-level staffers -- hallway cleaners, messengers, guards, sergeants at arms, researchers, and lawyers -- buttonhole me in recent days and, in a hushed voice, make comments such as, "I'm ashamed to work here,'' "I've given my life for this?'' and "I feel like I work for morons."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And all this over gay marriage.
What makes this bozo think that if the legislature took votes and passed stuff, it would help? How did NY get in this mess to begin with?
Yup. Hard to believe isn’t it.
Golisano saw a chance to make a move and he did.
Comments after the article could also be applied to 0’s administration.
Dude wrote:
This is the result of having black racist thugs running the government. Shame on the press for not widely reporting the racist firing of long-term white staffers for the benefit of incompetent friends and family of black politicians. The use of private security black thugs is especially disturbing in a parliamentary setting. This is like having Nazi brown shirts intimidating the opposition. There is outright unethical and probably criminal behavior being engaged in by these savages from the ghetto.
7/5/2009 11:27 AM EDT
They DO work ofr MORONS!!! Liberals ARE MORONS.....DANGEROUS MORONS....they bring RUINATION EVERYWHERE THEY ARE IN POWER!
REALLY?? Gay Marriage is what they are fighting over? OMG! So IMMORAL AND MORONIC!
The black racists threw out the WHITES?? ZIMBABWE on the HUDSON!
Yup. Republican institutions can go into chaos, but we shall have gay marriage!!
please, tell us....what is the "problem" that can't be discussed?.....give a hint....
knowing a lot about NYS since I lived there the first 22 yrs of my life, and having lots of relatives there.....my guess is the THE major problem is the pensions......they are destroying everyhing and anything in its path.....
when one realizes that some of those "honorable" police and firemen used the 911 attacks to bankroll up to $200,000 a year pensions, then the problem is very evident....greed...
Little does Mr Dicker know, to vast swaths of the rest of the country NY was anything but "a beacon." If it's "progressive state government" is finally, terminally broken there may be hope. Otherwise ... I got along without ya before I met ya, gonna get along without ya now.
living in NYS i can tell you I am none to happy about this at all.
>And all this over gay marriage.<
I think it has a lot to do with all the taxes the blind governor proposed that still leave us with an unimaginable deficit.
>when one realizes that some of those “honorable” police and firemen used the 911 attacks to bankroll up to $200,000 a year pensions, then the problem is very evident....greed...<
No the biggest portion of revenue goes to welfare freeloaders.
By FAR.
In My County the budget is consumed by 51% of welfare.
And why would anyone be surprised?
Amen! In other words, we get the Gov’t we deserve.
Re: the last days of the Roman empire. What struck me was the body guards on the floor. I don’t think even the Roman Senate would have tried that.
You mean there are body guards on the floor of the New York Senate? (If I remember during the Cataline conspiracy Cicero and others had body guards.)
Yes, an article I read about it mentioned two or three of the Senators had brought their body guards into the Senate.
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