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Albany Budget - The Joke that keeps giving | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 hidden)
That sounds just peachy. (none / 0) (#30)
by ObnoxioTheClown on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 07:21:50 PM EST
So Citizen Action/WFP will ship in a bunch of union mouthbreathers and NYC money to try to get someone elected. Great.

Seems to this clown that these folks have spent alot of time and energy on things like the schools, and haven't exactly come through with some sort of breakthrough.

And while the council consists of a bunch of spineless weasels, you haven't mentioned what the alternatives are.

Probably 2/3s of the city budget is for public safety -- and those costs are all labor. What would Mayor DIA do about that? Both departments are plenty busy, so laying people off is not going to be a popular move.

Cutting back their benefits (which are lavish) just isn't going to happen -- the contract will go into arbitration, and a budget-cutting mayor will lose.

There are a few things that you could do. You could cut back the benefits of administrative staff that aren't in a bargaining unit.

You could close the golf course - big fucking deal... total golf course expenses probably amounts to 1 police pay period.

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maybe we could hire a clown (none / 0) (#32)
by DIA on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 10:21:59 PM EST
who would throw up his hands in the air and claim he couldn't do anything and then beg for more state aid...or as we call it, welfare.  

What do you say, clown, willing to do that for $135K a year.  More than you probably are making these days as a mortgage broker.

Reminds me why i don't hire clowns to do work that doesn't involved entertaining children.

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