Governor Cuomo to New York's Poor and Middle Class: Drop Dead

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:




Governor Cuomo to New York's Poor and Middle Class: Drop Dead

— By James Ridgeway
| Tue Mar. 29, 2011 6:15 AM PDT


There is no country in the industrial world with as great an income disparity between the rich and poor as the United States. And within the US, there is no state where the disparity is more pronounced than New York. New York City was the center of the Great Recession, and today unemployment there stands at 9 percent and is not expected to drop any time soon. At the same time, the financial sector that caused it all has recovered nicely, and the executives are pulling down salaries and perks larger than they did before the recession.

In the midst of all this gross inequality, New York’s millionaires are getting a tax break, thanks to the state's new Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo. Son of liberal ex-governor Mario Cuomo, inheritor of some of the enthusiasm that once surrounded Eliot Spitzer’s campaign, and successor to the weak stand-in David Paterson, Cuomo was elected on a wave of optimism. He even ran on the line of the Working Families Party, an increasingly important progressive player in state politics. Yet Andrew Cuomo has turned out to be just another craven neoliberal. In his most meaningful action to date, he has embraced a budget that would make any Bushite salivate.

In a deal this past weekend, the governor and legislative leaders agreed upon a $132.5 million budget that cuts state spending by 2 percent, largely on the backs of the poor and the sick, women, children, the elderly, and other beneficiaries of state services. It offers next to nothing to the struggling middle class. But for the well-heeled denizens of Wall Street and beyond, there's a promised end to the so-called millionaire's tax passed at the height of the recession. This privileged group has already received a massive boost from the federal government in the form of the financial industry bailout, followed by the extension of the Bush tax cuts. Now they'll receive an extra gift from the state. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/governor-cuomo-new-yorks-poor-and-middle-class-drop-dead

[tabatha]

1. Koch-puppet.

[bread_and_roses]

2. Cuomo....is a Democrat (n/t)

[Unvanguard]

4. New York Democrats can do much better than him. n/t

[annabanana]

3. Your Father would be so proud

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[aquart]

10. Mario hasn't spoken up, has he?

I liked him for years. I voted for him. I even worked for him. But the Cuomos can go to Hell.

[Rage for Order]

5. Should've voted for "The Rent is Too Damn High" party candidate

You f-ed up, New York

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcsNbQRU5TI&feature=related

[eilen]

9. I voted for Howie Hawkins. Green Party Candidate nt

[Sherman A1]

6. With Dems like these, we really don't need

the GOP

[mdmc]

19. we really don't have a GOP here anymore

The best the GOP could do statewide was "Carl Palidino"

Our dems are corporate, workers are beaten

[Armstead]

7. What is it with some sons of solid liberal Democrats?

Cuomo seems to be is a pale centrist shadow of his father as governor.

Evan Bayh is much worse, despite his parentage.

I wonder what Jung would have to say about this.

[annabanana]

21. Or Freud..

Maybe they were jealous that they had to share their Dads with more of the World.

[Donnachaidh]

8. he got twice the contributions from Koch that Walker got

Ahhh, another Koch whore.... this time in BLUE! :sarcasm:

[ThomCat]

14. That tells us everything we need to know about what's coming

and where Cuomo's ambitions are. :(

Damn it! Anyone who takes Koch money should be boycotted by Democratic Voters. Every effort I find to inform the public democrats and form a voter boycott is going to get my full support, until the day those leeches are finally driven back under their rocks and crushed.

[Donnachaidh]

17. I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Anyone who received Koch money -ANYONE- should be suspect and watched. And we should be working to make their contributions radioactive to anyone who is thinking about asking them for support.

It doesn't matter which party they are from -- if they took Koch money, they are marked. Period.

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[Earth_First]

12. HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS in profits are taken on the back of HUNDREDS of BILLIONS exchaged EVERYDAY...

in New York state.

Rather than tax those profits, Cuomo grants another massive tax break for those millionaires.

Drop dead and fuck you!

[ThomCat]

13. Cuomo thinks this will make him popular enough with the high-rollers

to get him into national politics.

That's his goal. He has his eye on the white house.

If he has to screw poor people and the middle class to get there, he's fine with that. He seems pretty sure that he can triangulate enough, and tap dance well enough to convince enough people that he's a good guy who has everyone's best interest at heart so that people will keep voting for him.

Meanwhile, he wants the very rich to know that he really, truly has their best interests at heart. After all, the money primary is what really matters. Nobody gets elected unless you have the approval of the very rich first, and he definitely knows that, so he doesn't care if poor people get offended. It is only the Very Rich people he really needs to please all the time, every time.

x(

He's not his father. That's for damned sure.

[Hannah Bell]

15. kr

[Starry Messenger]

16. k&r

[lunatica]

18. Well what have the poor ever done for him?

:sarcasm:

[Overseas]

20. Sad K&R.

[bobbolink]

22. All I can say is, Thank God He Is A Democrat. That means he will get away with it just fine.

Fuck the people who will die because of it.

[mdmc]

23. ..