How does someone write about excess hospital beds when we live in an age of terrorism and pandemics? What are we supposed to do without the beds if we need them? Other than that, I don't have a problem with the recommendations.
The pandemic scare hasn't panned out yet, even after all these years of scares. And why can't you create an emergency fund to buy beds whe/if there is a terror attack?
Why live in fear of "what might be" all the time? There will always be some kind of potential emergency. You don't necessarily have to build each one into the budget. If you go down that road (and we already have), political vested interests will make sure that public fear is sustained so they can keep getting their kickbacks.
appoint three statewide commissions
LOL
Of course!
And these commissions will spend no money, cost nothing and will as if by magic return the state to fiscal bliss.
Yah..let me know how that works...you are just adding three more fiddlers to watch Rome burn....
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No matter what you read in the media the NY financial crisis is much worse than anyone can imagine. My Assemblywoman (a Democrat) recently told me that in a few months the state is going to have to make “terrifying decisions that will affect every New Yorker” (except the corrupt politicians in Albany-like her, I assume).
Privatize everything through competitive bidding.
Appoint commissions, my *ss.
Fire 1/3 of the parasites, oops I meant state “workers.”
SCHOOLS folks have increased their budgets many, many times over....its the govt workers who get the big money and the safe jobs and the medical for free and the big pensions...
but lets go after the $10 an hour housekeeper who works weekends and holidays..
until the school budges..the it follow the teacher budgets.....come into line with reality and the rest of the lowly peasant workers, then no state budget will ever be quite enough...