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Awesome NYTimes Interactive: YOU Fix The Budget
Really awesome and helpful interactive from the Times — click through various policy decisions and see the impact it’ll have on the 2015 and 2030 budgetary shortfalls for the country!
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Cuomo’s Shadow Governor-ing
NY Magazine’s Intelligencer calls Cuomo “the shadowy fourth man in the Albany room,” a play on the old adage that New York is run by three men in a room (Governor, Senate President, Speaker of the Assembly): Publicly, Cuomo has supported Paterson’s positions at key moments while not appearing to meddle. When the Legislature tried to replace school-aid cuts with tax increases, Cuomo spoke out forcefully on Paterson’s behalf at a press conference. Behind the scenes, Cuomo has been even more active. “Andrew’s mark is all over this budget,” a Democratic insider says. “He began a dialogue with Paterson about a month ago, and they’ve been having nearly daily conversations and Andrew talks a ton to Larry Schwartz,” Paterson’s chief … More >>
Amazing Expose On The Politics Of The Failed NY Budget
If you haven’t listened to the “This American Life” episode from June 19, you should. Put it on while you’re working out, taking a bath or bored with your friend’s crappy story – I guarantee your jaw will drop at least once. Ira Glass rips into Albany, interviews Dick Ravitch and all around let’s us know that, while not the only state in budget shortfall (48 of them are), we’re amongst the worse. Go ahead, click the link and edify yourself. Just stream the whole thing, it’s free – that’s what public broadcast is for. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/410/social-contract
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In The Good Years, Take From NYC. In The Bad Years, Take From NYC.
The 1st lesson of Economics 101 is the rule of scarcity: An economy is faces with limited resources but unlimited wants and needs for these resources. But what happens when you have someone each year taking more and more of your resources? This is the dilemma New York City faces again. The worst kept secret in state and city relations is we have given billions more to the State coffers than we receive back. We have essentially bailed out the entire state year after year. But now that we are in a recession and New York City is facing the brunt it, Albany has decided that there’s no better time to take more from us. In Governor Paterson’s latest budget, … More >>
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Filling The Hole
The Empire Center for New York has published a “blueprint” for getting the state’s fiscal crisis under control. Setting aside the fact that the Empire Center appears to be a right-wing think tank (key words at top of website: “Freedom” “Opportunity” “Enterprise”) affiliated with the likes of the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute, there’s still some stuff that’s worth noting in here. Take for example, this chart: The report has all sorts of private sector jargon in it (e.g., “right-sizing” and “performance-based compensation” etc), again underscoring the pro-business/small-government stance of the source. That being said, the crisis facing New York state is a bipartisan issue, and one that has been highlighted time and time again by officials ranging from … More >>
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Yes, The GOP Thinks You Are THIS Stupid
Bob Cesca of HuffPost came up with this hilarious re-graph of the spending comparison in GOP Rep. Ryan Davis’ WSJ Op-Ed introducing the new(est) Republican budget plan. (THIS TIME! WITH NUMBERS!) The blue line represents Dem spending.. Read the whole thing, it’s astonishing. Here’s a taste: It only makes sense that a party currently being wagged by fringe crazy people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Michele Bachmann would release its alternative budget on April Fools’ Day. And here’s some Star Trek comparative analysis from Yglesias
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