Reply With QuoteAmen to that bro. I've always wished we could just cut that huge, big, eyesore right off, and float it down to California, with the rest of the "wacos". Keep all the zoo animals in one spot of the country.
Nothing will ever change unless we seperate from NYC. All the money goes there and were left with the crumbs. We are paying for their extravagant life style with all the illegal aliens and special interest groups buying of the 3 stooges in Albany. We will never be heard NYC is to powerful.
Amen to that bro. I've always wished we could just cut that huge, big, eyesore right off, and float it down to California, with the rest of the "wacos". Keep all the zoo animals in one spot of the country.
Could it be, that we are paying out of this world, skyhigh insurance rates (highest or 2nd highest in the nation), because the insurance companies had to pay out THREE AND ONE HALF BILLION DOLLARS to Larry Silverstein for the 911 building collapses? He only paid TWO million for the policy. He is even still trying to get even more, like SEVEN BILLION. That payout does not come out of insurance company profits (pockets). It translates into HIGHER INSURANCE RATES on EVERYTHING for everybody else, to make up their losses.
This whole State is geared to New York City because that's who has the money and power. If we seperate from them we would not have to contend with the insurance hikes, property tax hikes, sales tax hikes, crooked government and so on.
I always thought Buffalo gets more money then it put in to the system. With out New York City we would be the one the rest of the state was trying to get rid of. we complain all the time but our county area gets its share. our government and its workers just keep begging for more.
One good thing about growing old is your secrets are safe with your friends they can't remember them either
Anybody catch the special on HBO tuesday night? It makes me feel "so proud" to be associated with these low lifes. Breaking into complex's, one after another, just to shoot up. Medicaid will pay completly for their care, if they just happen to OD, or get run over by a car, if their "totally trashed", while I, and others, as honorable veterans, can't get any help from the V.A., if we need it. (I went once, a long time ago, when I was unemployed without ins. They gave me a whole "song and dance",before saying goodbye).
They did another reality special a while back, following around a pair of cons that were released in NYC. Real pretty!
It speaks wonders to the whole "mystique" of one of the biggest "sh**holes" of NEW YORK STATE. Rat problems, addicts, illegals, high crime rate, etc. Worth "every penny" we pay, and pay, and pay.
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"Dope Sick Love"
Two drug-addicted couples try to maintain their relationships while living on the streets of New York.
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IT'S A GOOD THING N.Y.C. DON'T HAVE A CRACK BABY PROBLEM ! IT COSTS "13 times as expensive as that of normal newborns "
THAT WOULD KILL OUR MEDICAID COSTS.
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The medical care of crack babies, stated one of the most widely quoted articles to appear in a mass magazine on the subject, is 13 times as expensive as that of normal newborns (Toufexis, 1991).
In New York City, the annual number of children placed in foster care in the early 1990s, compared with the number before the crack epidemic, was said to have increased five times. The New York State comptroller's office estimated that New York City alone will spend three-quarters of a billion dollars over the next decade on special education for crack children. There is fear that these youngsters will become "an unmanageable multitude of disturbed and disruptive youth, fear that they will be a lost generation"
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In 2001 the US Centers for Disease Control published the results of a survey conducted in October 1999 by staff from Beth Israel Medical Center and the North American Syringe Exchange Network of 131 Syringe Exchange Program (SEP) directors around the country .
The largest number of SEPs were in four states: 21 in California, 14 in New York, 12 in Washington, and nine in New Mexico
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It is conservatively estimated that 50% of New York City's 200,000 injecting drug users are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. But the response to the AIDS epidemic has not been based on effective epidemiological strategies. Instead, the response is based on politics. Politics has turned the issue into a choice between combatting AIDS or addiction".
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Finally, criminal groups based in Southeast and Southwest Asia smuggle heroin into the United States. Using New York City as a major distribution hub, these criminal groups move heroin up and down the eastern seaboard and into the Midwest.
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Are you kidding, how ignorant are you? NYC takes most of the money brought by our high taxes. I do vote how bout you?
GOOD THING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS "SHOWING THEM THE WAY"
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"Corruption in Public Schools Costs Taxpayers, Impedes Reform"
http://www.rppi.org/schoolcorruption.shtml
September 1, 2004 -- Ongoing news reports from across the country indicate incidents of corruption and mismanagement in the public schools occur frequently, often on a massive scale. Ignoring the scale of the problem not only costs taxpayers millions of dollars but also hinders school reform efforts, according to New York University law professor Lydia G. Segal.
In her recent book, Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools (Northwestern University Press, 2003), Segal argues, "one impediment to reform that no one is seriously studying in the debate over how to improve public schools is systematic fraud, waste, and abuse." Her careful documentation of the pervasive corruption and waste in the nation's three largest school districts--New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles--leaves little doubt the problem merits serious study.
$8 Million in Undocumented Expenses
The Roslyn school board is still reviewing more than $8 million in undocumented expenses.
In New York's affluent Roslyn School District on Long Island, former school superintendent Frank A. Tassone and senior administrator Pamela C. Gluckin were each charged recently with stealing more than $1 million from the district. Gluckin allegedly used the funds to finance four homes, a Lexus, and other luxury items. Tassone allegedly used his $1 million for airline travel, cruises, dermatology treatments, furniture, and jewelry, and to give his roommate's company more than $800,000 in no-bid contracts. Both Tassone and Gluckin pleaded not guilty.
According to the New York Times, those expenses include:
$736,000 paid to an Oklahoma publishing company that has no record of doing business with the district;
$600,000+ spent in delicatessens and specialty food stores;
$100,000+ spent on limousines and car services;
$50,000 paid to restaurants;
$21,000 charged for a BMW lease or purchase;
$3,800 spent to reserve space with Manhattan Mini-Storage, a long way from Roslyn;
$1,485 spent for an Equinox gym membership.
$15.9 Million in Kickbacks
Exploiting a Loophole
Unethical behavior and taxpayer abuse by school employees is not always illegal. In June, thousands of teachers in Texas rushed to retire before a lucrative loophole in Social Security law closed. Although most Texas teachers participate in a state pension fund rather than paying into Social Security, the loophole allowed them to receive Social Security benefits if their last day of work before retirement was in a job covered by Social Security.
Actually for Grand Islanders that would work out great! We could even go a step further and secede from the union! Then we could charge our own tolls on the bridges, become a duty free zone, do "offshore" banking, and have various industries relocate here. We could also have our own Casino and with all that we would not have to pay any taxes and our kids could go to any college they want gratis from OUR government! QWe are being taxed just to get to and from our homes which should be illegal!
Some of these remarks are so absurdly trailer park, I can't tell who's joking, and who's serious.
"Absurdly trailer park", oh I'm truly hurt, you Democrats really know a lot about trailer parks! Bet you voted for Holt!
This thread is useless, no wonder we get the "babble" label; secession is a nothing but wishful thinking.
Typical Democrat, they have lots of remarks but no answers. Wake up and smell the coffee. NYC rules
Originally posted by havemercy7
Nothing will ever change unless we seperate from NYC. All the money goes there and were left with the crumbs. We are paying for their extravagant life style with all the illegal aliens and special interest groups buying of the 3 stooges in Albany. We will never be heard NYC is to powerful.
wait...you haven't seen nothing yet...wait til that dude Spangler, Stingler, Slushinger that dude running for gove...wait i'm sure he will mess this state up even more if not worse....just wait....NYS is slowly becoming a state for the Rich with the poor sweeping the streets...just wait...you'll see mark my words....
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