LET NEW YORK SHUT DOWN

boblonsberry.com ^ | 11/24/09 | Bob Lonsberry

[shortstop]

I'm glad I moved out of that hell-hole 31 years ago.

Seems to me New York is a microcosm of what we will soon be facing in the US of A. The parallel is spooky.

[Red Badger]

That's the whole premise of Atlas Shrugged.................

[ltc8k6]

California too...their gap is way bigger, I believe.

http://www.sacbee.com/budget/story/2336962.html

[littleharbour]

Sadly, if NY doesn’t get its act together, it will soon see a return to David Dinkins’ style “prosperity”. About the only thing keeping the city going is the tourists, who love the restaurants and entertainment in what is a relatively safe and clean city since Giuliani cleaned things up. If the fiscal crisis results in a drop in police vigilance or a deterioration of public works, the tourists will stay away and the city will die.

[pnh102]

[marstegreg]

Its a good thing those terror trials will only cost them 75 million...what a deal!

[2banana]

As long as it could impose huge taxes on its huge profits and bonuses, life was OK. But those have gone, and the bottom has fallen out of the state’s budget.

There are going to be RECORD bonuses paid this year on wall street thanks to taxpayer bailouts...

[shadeaud]

Badda Bing pnh102 that was the first thing to come to my mind. But in this case it will be the governor telling the city to drop dead.

[joe fonebone]

"Because the governor needs the welfare vote come election day, and because the legislators get to keep being legislators by doling out ever-larger servings of other people’s money. So the realities of New York’s finances were pushed off for another day, as they have for years on end."
substitute the state of michigan for new york and you have our problem for the last 8 years...the difference here is that more people draw a check from the state than the private sector..we here are beyond the tipping point, but thank god the senate is republican majority or we would have had even more taxes dumped on us...people and businesses are leaving in droves, and nobody with any brains will start a company or relocate one here.....this state is dead

[silverleaf]

ditto Colly-fornya.

[verity]

” Special-interest groups immediately began running ads to protect their sacred cows. Legislators postured, not calling for fiscal responsibility, but promising to safeguard health care or education or some other sacred money pit.”

This is already occurring on the National level.

[bgill]

Bring in the terrorists and see how many tourists take their vacations elsewhere.

[cripplecreek]

I want it to happen here in Michigan. There’s no point in doing business here because if you make a buck, they want 2 bucks. If you make two bucks, they want 3 more. Its never going to end without cutting them off entirely.

Anything less than cold turkey will fail.

[Fish Speaker]

You beat me by two years...

[Sacajaweau]

Get rid of the Union influence and NYS might survive.

What teachers are paid is ridiculous. Increase the class size and letter 1/8th of the teachers find something else to do.

Our city teachers are the highest paid around....and only 45% of the kids graduate. I'd guess the next 20% are borderline...

[ClearCase_guy]

Michigan, NY, California, and other places -- they really need to experience full-blown-the-world-is-ending crashes.

If you insist on taxing productivity and rewarding sloth, if you base your political campaigns on buying votes through entitlements, if you do not respect life, liberty, or property rights, then you can live in the world that results.

And if that world is a painful, bloody mess, then perhaps the wisdom of our Founding Fathers will become more plain to you.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I say let New York City go under, shut down, and let the fed gov take it over because it's too big to fail.

Then do likewise with Philadelphia...and so forth.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

I am thinking of suing you for defamation of character. I was one “the drunken sailor”, sir, and I point out to you that “WE SPENT ONLY OUR OWN MONEY”. Then we quit and went back to the ship.
I demand, for all of us, an apology.
I was, and some still are, “drunken sailors”, NOT political hacks. There, I said it.

[cripplecreek]

On the other hand it isn’t entirely our own fault. Federal interference hasn’t exactly helped. The feds sowed the seeds of the EPA, NEA, FDA, etc and we provided the fertile ground.

A return to state sovereignty would go a long way toward correcting the problem but first we have to accept the fact that our sovereignty wasn’t taken, it was sold.

[bgill]

What teachers are paid is ridiculous. Increase the class size

What is their pay and what are your class sizes? Here, teachers are paid about $40k and there's about 20 kids per class. Way back when I was in school the normal class had about 35 kids. I think the magic number was 42 before they would have to divide it and make two classes. Back in the day, we also didn't have so many assistants for teachers and principals and everything else you could think of. And assistants for the assistants.