Posted on 08/17/2016 10:11:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Facing numerous analyses showing his signature jobs programs misallocated resources and put few New Yorkers to work, Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued today that any such assessments are only a matter of political point of view.
Speaking after an unrelated event in the Bronx, the governor defended his attacks last week on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who released unflattering audits of two Cuomo programs this summer. The governor again insisted that those findings were just DiNapoli’s opinions, opinions which are open to debate given the comptroller’s history as an assemblyman from Long Island. […]
… (Cuomo’s) Startup NY initiative, which grants tax exemptions to companies that either launch in or relocate to state college campuses in New York, has created only 408 jobs according to an internal report published last month—despite $175 million the ESDC has spent advertising opportunities in the state, $53 million promoting Startup NY alone. …
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Yea...sure...right.any excuse is better than the truth.
There are people who tell us that there is no such thing a “Good” and “Evil,” that it is only a matter of opinion. These are the people we used to call ‘evil.’
There are people who tell us that there is no such thing a “Good” and “Evil,” that it is only a matter of opinion. These are the people we used to call ‘evil.’
What socialists say when nothing seems to work.
Anything he says is crap.
“There are people who tell us that there is no such thing a “Good” and “Evil,” that it is only a matter of opinion. These are the people we used to call ‘evil.’”
They also call us wrong when we disagree with them
They cannot live by the rules they promote
‘You don’t really need money to get by, do you, Citizen!’
I still call them evil. They are the type that call evil good and good evil.
Return on Investment
A simple concept
He probably also believes there are not “boys” and “girls”.
I’m not so sure climate change folks will want to go with, ‘math is an opinion not a fact’... it opens such a wide door
My tagline used to say that we need to make them live by their own rules. Use their Alinsky tactics against them.
I deal with some NY companies. Their 8.75% sales tax in some counties is a KILLER!
Andrew Cuomo, who has ridden his daddy’s coattails for far too long, forgets that Mayor Ed Koch might have written about economic programs, and the near-bankruptcy of NYC, more than 36 years ago.
Return on investment?
I’m willing to wager that all that money went exactly to the people Cuomo wanted it to go to. Minimum wage workers don’t donate to political campaigns or vote.
Cuomo and other libs who give money away for votes definitely are not interested in accountability or results - that doesn’t apply to guvmint work.
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