Monday, May 4, 2009
NY legislative spending is up
From Fox 5:
New Yorkers are losing their jobs, taking pay cuts and being asked to make huge sacrifices. But up in Albany, politicians are using more taxpayer money to help them run their offices.
Fox 5's John Deutzman went to the capital to check things out. He went to ask Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith about how expenses to run the state Legislature are way up: office workers, travel expenses, audio equipment for staged news conferences, even media people who deal with pesky reporters.
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I am sure Assemblywoman Marge Marky racks up big expenses in transportation, staff, media consultancy and supplies for her extensive daily work in the field she exhaustively performs daily in her district.
There is no harder working Assembly person in Albany than Marge Markey in getting herself out there to get reelected, in fact this extensive process to be in office commence immediately upon getting elected. Don't be fooled by how much this proceses consumes her time, efforts and your money to keep her in office. She is so busy accomplishing this that her assistants cannot answer your emails or phone calls about your issues, that she or her staff demand that you send a snail mail letter detailing your issue and request. Because Marge is so occuppied with managing her reelection, spending State money and meeting with developers to raise campaign funds you may not receive a response as she can only address issues of major importance namely what interest's Marge which is not much if you review her accomplishments and record in Albany.
John Deutzman kicks ass.
If they did away with the state assembly people in Maspeth wouldn't notice. The biggest waste in government is Margaret Markey.
Why attack Markey for this?
Most of the expenses and increases come from the leadership level (Silver and Smith). The Assembly actually got a 1.5% cut in expenditures.
But I am stunned it still went up after they found all those BS expenses Bruno was racking up.
"Why attack Markey for this?"
Simple. Because she's the biggest waste in government. Her salary, office staff, rent, expenses are a total waste of taxpayers' money.
What has she done in her 10 years in the Assembly? Nothing. Oh wait, she voted to repeal the commuter tax and NYC lost billions and counting in revenue. Good work Marge!
Tony Tony Tony, still bitter and telling lies. Get a life.
Who's Tony and what does that have to do with the fact that Marge does nothing?
You know what annoys me, all these people telling us the working class we have to cut back, we have to pay more taxes because they are not fit to handle 50 cents no less than 50 billion, but not once when they get up to tell the working class what we will be covering next in City and State expenses not once do i hear we are all going to take 1/2 pay to cut the working class some slack. Nope they are like ticks and leaches hanging on and not letting go till the working class are homeless and starving. And then they will somehow blame us. And I guess in some uncanny way it is our fault because we are too scared to go with anything new and we keep the same azzholes. It's disgraceful.
What's even more annoying is that these people get re-elected. A perfect example is Charles Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committe who doesn't pay taxes and gets re-elected with more than 90% of the vote. Shame on the people in his district.
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