Cut Education spending, lay off Government workers, No tax increases is the Way to Go

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Says Democrat Governor Cumo of New york.....Imagine that. Maybe a Democrat that gets it?

Statement by AQE Executive Director Billy Easton: “Governor Cuomo’s budget pulls the rug out on children’s education by cutting literacy programs, career and technical education, college prep, pre-K, arts, music, sports, tutoring, guidance counselors and school librarians. Governor Cuomo’s cuts to our kids’ schools are the largest in history, if they are adopted the damage to students will be permanent because children do not get

New York Gov. Cuomo calls for cuts to Medicaid, education spending in Wagner College speech

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Saying that the state is at an economic “crossroads,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo yesterday delivered a message of fiscal austerity that he said would affect the lives of every New Yorker.

Speaking to about 350 people at Wagner College’s Main Hall Theatre, Cuomo said the state’s budget woes have a simple cause.

“We spend too much money,” he said. “You cannot spend more money than you make in life.”

Displaying some of the silver-tongued flash and humor that is a hallmark of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, the governor said that only two groups don’t understand that rule: The leaders of the state Legislature and “my three daughters.”

New York Gov. Cuomo calls for cuts to Medicaid, education spending in Wagner College speech | SILive.com

SHOULD TEA PARTIERS IN NEW YORK SUPPORT MOST OF GOVERNOR CUOMO'S PROPOSED CONSERVATIVE FISCAL REFORM MEASURES?

Below is a letter written written by Carl Paladino's former campaign manager, Michael Caputo. The letter was presented at a recent Tea Party meeting in Oneonta NY where close to 60 Tea Party and other 'Liberty' group leaders met to discuss ways to unify the various groups. In the letter he asks for New Yorker's to stand behind Cuomo's policies, even if you can't stand behind him.

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Dear Fellow New Yorker:

First, please accept my family's wishes for a happy and prosperous new year. As Carl Paladino's former campaign manager, I know the campaigns of 2010 were exhausting for all of us. I wanted to drop you a note of thanks for your support for Carl's candidacy.

We lost at the polls, but we might still see a policy victory: last Tuesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo was talking like a fiscal conservative. His ideological shift - if it is for real - can be attributed to two factors: New York's economic reality and the chorus of grassroots protest.

I am writing you today because it may be up to the grassroots to deliver conservative fiscal reform that can cut our taxes and save our State.

So far, Gov. Cuomo has proposed a series of reforms that sound an awful lot like Carl Paladino:

•An annual cap on the growth of local and school district property taxes at two percent, or 120 percent of the inflation rate, whichever is lower. (http://nyti.ms/e4seDy)

•Layoffs of 10,000 to 12,000 state workers, about five percent of the workforce. (New York Budget News: Cuomo Weighs More Than 10,000 Layoffs - WSJ.com)

•A "storm" of real budget cuts, the first in far too long. One reporter thinks Cuomo "would exceed the $7 billion in cuts proposed by Carl Paladino." (Cuomo Tells New York Lawmakers to Prepare for First Budget Cut Since 1995 - Bloomberg)

•Closing a $10 billion budget deficit with no new taxes, fees, or borrowing. (State Conservative Party's Michael Long praises Gov. Cuomo's fiscal agenda)

Sure, Gov. Cuomo is "talking the talk." But will he "walk the walk" of fiscal responsibility? We'll soon find out. His State of the State speech will be televised on Tuesday, February 1st and budget talks will begin thereafter.

But we already have some indications of his resolve.

This month, Cuomo stood his ground on the property tax cap, resisting Democrat Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's push to link the cap to reauthorizing a state law controlling rents for a million New York City apartments.

Cuomo said no. He wants the two issues dealt with "on their own merits," and he's right.

Cuomo has no draft legislation yet, but the Albany horse-trading has begun. Any tax cap bill must include mandate relief, and mandates are Speaker Silver's lifeblood. The Governor must make deep, unilateral cuts to major programs, such as Medicaid, in his first budget proposals. If he compromises and excludes bloated mandates, a tax cap will be only a fig leaf to hide this administration's shortcomings.

SHOULD TEA PARTIERS IN NEW YORK SUPPORT MOST OF GOVERNOR CUOMO'S PROPOSED CONSERVATIVE FISCAL REFORM MEASURES?

 

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Dem politicians takin' it out onna po' folks...

House passes $6T spending cut plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Friday passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare and combat out-of-control budget deficits with sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid.

The nonbinding plan lays out a fiscal vision cutting $6.2 trillion over the coming decade from the budget submitted by President Barack Obama. It passed 235-193 with every Democrat voting “no.” The vote sets up the Republicans’ next round of confrontation with Obama and Democrats over the country’s long-term deficit levels — a standoff likely to come to a head this summer and set the stage for 2012 elections. In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Friday, the president said the Republican’s budget represents “a pessimistic vision.”

“It’s one that says that America can no longer do some of the big things that made us great, that made us the envy of the world,” he said. Acknowledging that spending cuts would have to be made, Obama said he’s pushing for “a smart compromise that’s serious.” Under the House Republican plan, deficits requiring the federal government to borrow more than 40 cents for every dollar it spends would be cut by the end of the decade to 8 cents of borrowing for every dollar spent. The plan by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a rising figure in the party, exposes Republicans to political risk. It proposes transforming Medicare from a program in which the government directly pays medical bills into a voucher-like system that subsidizes purchases of private insurance plans. People 55 and over would remain in the current system, but younger workers would receive subsidies that would steadily lose value over time.

The budget measure is nonbinding but lays out a vision to fundamentally reshape government benefit programs for the poor and elderly whose spiraling costs threaten to crowd out other spending and produce a crippling debt burden that could put a big drag on the economy in the future. “Which future do you want your children to have? One, where the debt gets so large it crushes the economy and gives them a diminished future?” Ryan asked. “Or this budget … that literally not only gets us on the way to balancing the budget but pays off our debt?”

The GOP’s solution to unsustainable deficits is to relentlessly attack the spending side of the ledger while leaving Bush-era revenue levels intact. It calls for tax reform that would lower the top income tax rates for corporations and individuals by cleaning out a tax code cluttered with tax breaks and preferences, but parts company with Obama and the findings of a bipartisan deficit commission, who propose devoting about $100 billion a year in new revenues to easing the deficit. Democrats and many budget experts say this spending-cuts-only approach is fundamentally unfair, targeting social safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps while leaving in place a tax system they say bestows too many benefits on the wealthy.

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Dem politicians takin' it out onna po' folks...

House passes $6T spending cut plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Friday passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare and combat out-of-control budget deficits with sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid.

The nonbinding plan lays out a fiscal vision cutting $6.2 trillion over the coming decade from the budget submitted by President Barack Obama. It passed 235-193 with every Democrat voting “no.” The vote sets up the Republicans’ next round of confrontation with Obama and Democrats over the country’s long-term deficit levels — a standoff likely to come to a head this summer and set the stage for 2012 elections. In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Friday, the president said the Republican’s budget represents “a pessimistic vision.”

“It’s one that says that America can no longer do some of the big things that made us great, that made us the envy of the world,” he said. Acknowledging that spending cuts would have to be made, Obama said he’s pushing for “a smart compromise that’s serious.” Under the House Republican plan, deficits requiring the federal government to borrow more than 40 cents for every dollar it spends would be cut by the end of the decade to 8 cents of borrowing for every dollar spent. The plan by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a rising figure in the party, exposes Republicans to political risk. It proposes transforming Medicare from a program in which the government directly pays medical bills into a voucher-like system that subsidizes purchases of private insurance plans. People 55 and over would remain in the current system, but younger workers would receive subsidies that would steadily lose value over time.

The budget measure is nonbinding but lays out a vision to fundamentally reshape government benefit programs for the poor and elderly whose spiraling costs threaten to crowd out other spending and produce a crippling debt burden that could put a big drag on the economy in the future. “Which future do you want your children to have? One, where the debt gets so large it crushes the economy and gives them a diminished future?” Ryan asked. “Or this budget … that literally not only gets us on the way to balancing the budget but pays off our debt?”

The GOP’s solution to unsustainable deficits is to relentlessly attack the spending side of the ledger while leaving Bush-era revenue levels intact. It calls for tax reform that would lower the top income tax rates for corporations and individuals by cleaning out a tax code cluttered with tax breaks and preferences, but parts company with Obama and the findings of a bipartisan deficit commission, who propose devoting about $100 billion a year in new revenues to easing the deficit. Democrats and many budget experts say this spending-cuts-only approach is fundamentally unfair, targeting social safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps while leaving in place a tax system they say bestows too many benefits on the wealthy.

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Republicans are trying to save the economy for the "poor folks"....idiot

 

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You asked the White House answered- MSN Money

right the rich are looking out for the poor folks, they believe that if they can remove more of the money these people have it would free them up from having to worry about where they should spend it.