Just think at the harm you selfish Freepers are causing to my Libtard state by turning off the spending spigot
Posted on 10/24/2010 6:08:03 AM PDT by Zakeet
New Yorkers don't like playing second fiddle to anyone, but they'll be lucky to be a backup kazoo if Republicans take over Congress.
The Empire State lives up to its name in the House of Representatives now, with four members chairing committees - and eight leading subcommittees.
And it's not about bragging rights - it's about steering billions of dollars home.
If Republicans win 39 seats in the Nov. 2 election to take control of the House, "We'd get creamed," said Baruch College's Doug Muzzio. "All the goodies, all the earmarks - New York can get that because we have representatives in positions of power. We're talking millions and probably billions of dollars."
Billions is right.
The 9/11 health bill alone is worth $7.4 billion, which will go to help thousands of 9/11 responders - more than half of them in New York. "If Republicans were in the majority, there's no way that bill would have even got to the House floor," said Bronx Rep. Eliot Engel.
The Senate's version of the health reform law would have saddled New York with more than $1.5 billion a year in new Medicaid costs.
Influential New Yorkers in the House, including embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, rewrote funding formulas in the bill - and the state ended up getting an extra $2 billion a year from the feds.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Just think at the harm you selfish Freepers are causing to my Libtard state by turning off the spending spigot
I live in NYC. Bloomberg wants some sort of illegal immigrant paradise here. Turn off the spigot and let them reverse migrate.
commies for obama....
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/10/24/big-dupes-at-big-peace-frank-marshall-davis-obama-mentor-part-2/
So... apparently... the rest of us exist to feed these pigs? Who knew!
Maurice Hinchey has only a few canned lines and he always goes into those choices. In this clip, he spends quite a while trying to determine which canned speech he will give, without any clue of what he's saying.
He survives only via a gerrymandered district, and I hope that George Phillips can defeat him.
I live in southwest Connecticut. Just moved here. It seems as soon as I cross the border into NY state, the quality of the people drops dramatically: Most NYers are selfish, rude, and arrogant. Their pride at being the most intelligent and sophisticated people in the country is only matched by their utter stupidity and boorish un-sophistication.
I was born and raised in NYC and cannot agree more. I tell people that I’m a redneck born in the wrong state. I can’t stand going back there. My family members make me ill, with their attitudes. They live in sewer and know it, but like to brag about what wonderful people that makes them.
Chumps.
I went to NYC in the 70’s. Being from Melbourne Beach Florida I could not stand the place. If I went outside for a half hour I had to come back to my room to take a shower cause I was covered in grime of some sort. It was even in my hair. Horrible.
Worth every one the fifteen pennies.
When was a decline of 12 on the Dow a "skid"? In 1977. BTW, I applauded President Ford at the time and I was a resident of NYC.
Hank “King of the” Hill was born in NYC, too. (His father took his mother up there on an expedition to kill Castro at Yankee Stadium. The stress caused his mother to go into labor.) I’m like Hank, a redneck born in the wrong state, wrong city. I just had to endure it longer than he did.
Is the grime still in the air up there?
I hope to see you in Prison someday Charlie, you corrupt pos!
The elections in November are surely our last hope to force the federal beast back into its cage.
I have not stepped into New York City since at least before 9/11. It has nothing to do with 9/11, it’s just a convenient peg point. I was there for a funeral in 1998, but haven’t been back since. I get enough of it in emails and over the phone. If I’m driving south, I take the Tappan Zee Bridge to avoid the George Washington and the Cross Bronx “Expressway” (cruel misnomer!).
Ah...you noticed that too? Living in NW NJ, we are trying to keep the selfish, rude, and arrogant NY’ers and NJ Guido’s out of our part of the state. It’s getting harder all the time. They crap up their areas, then migrate to do the same there!
As if we didn't have enough reason to vote them out, here's one more.
We're talking millions and probably billions of dollars."
This 2 sentence statement..explains in a nutshell "The Culture of Corruption" Washington has become, they all need to go....to jail.
Good hunting Sarah...you have found a target rich environment.
Despite the tone the headline, the article seems to imply that that's a bad thing. Consider: maybe not relying on other people's money to feed your bloated civil service unions, might make you sober up.
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