to storm Mubarak’s mansion. It’s him, or them and he’s made it clear that he’d rather it was them. And if the protests fail, a lot of them, including the women, are going to spend a lot of time being tortured.
Month: February 2011
I hear from people who know him he’s actually quite bright. Which means that he probably understand the consequences of this:
In a surprise move, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has submitted his proposal to limit local property taxes to the State Senate for a vote on Monday, a tactic that seems designed to isolate Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly who have qualms about the measure…
… The bill did not include any proposal for reducing costs or liberating municipalities and school districts from state mandates, elements that even some supporters said were critical to ensuring that a cap did not bankrupt local governments.
Needless to say, municipalities are already under great fiscal pressure. This, along with Cuomo’s stated goal to attack public sector unions, is simply another part of the attack on government which actually helps people. Starve the beast, cause a fiscal crisis, and voila, end of government programs. Note also that this will make the education problem worse, and access to good education even more uneven.
People like Cuomo aren’t the problem, though, the fact that Democrats nominate people like him and voters elect them as the lesser evil, that is the problem. Cuomo’s job is to make sure that the people who hollowed out the US economy and caused the financial crash don’t pay the price of their evil, but in fact stay in charge of society despite causing a Depression and being bankrupt (but we’ll all pretend they aren’t, so it doesn’t count.)
This, this is why America is going down. Because Americans keep electing people like Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama. Earn your money while you can, folks, ’cause your leaders are determined to crash out the economy. And if oil prices don’t stop increasing, you won’t even have a year, you’ll have six months before the next downturn.