Assemblymember Brian Kavanaugh comforted the audience at Manhattan Community Board Six Wednesday evening by letting them in on the slick financial engineering Albany Democrats have set out to deal with the state's catastrophic budget crisis.
The solution? (and we really should have thought of this long ago; silly us): We're going to -- wait for it --- they're going to accelerate revenue and delay expenses!!!!
Its pure GENIUS!!! Don't you think???? ( Shh!!! Don't tell anybody at Goldman Sachs about this clever budget strategy!)
There will be no cuts!!! SEIU, UFT and all the others in the alphabet soup of public employee unions can keep their jobs!!! (And government of the public employees, by the public employees, and for the public employees shall not perish from New York State!)
I'm very comfortable now. I feel confident New York can survive ANY fiscal storm, now that we've got smart guys like Brian Kavanaugh looking at our budget woes. I bet we New Yorkers could even pay Tiger Woods divorce settlement, if we had to! (Just kidding; we won't have to pay that....Tiger doesn't work for New York State and I don't think he's in any public employee union....silly him, eh?)
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written by Jay Golub , December 24, 2009
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/l...IjFJBZqKWJ
your prediction is coming true, GOPNYC...
Gov. Paterson said yesterday he expects to repay his $750 million IOU to schools and local governments next month when tax money rolls in for the state.
"When the revenues return in January, we will restore the payments to those entities," Paterson said. "It is our best assessment that the revenues will be there in January."
He warned, however, that state finances could take another dive.
The governor said he needed to withhold the aid from schools and local governments, including $127 million for New York City, to keep the state treasury from running dry.
...a temporary fix for the intractable, permanent problem of excessive government spending.
It is funny because there are times when you think Paterson may be starting to lead on something big and then he just takes it back.
He is even less of a "leader" than Obama is - and that's saying a lot...
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