[Dahoser]

Long before California resorted to i.o.u.’s to pay state bills, and before New York’s political insurrection made a mess of this year’s budget planning, and even before the recession pushed dozens of other states into their worst fiscal distress in decades, lawmakers here were cutting.

The Supreme Soviet of the People's Republic of New York helped the process by doing no harm for a month. It's when they're in session that they make a mess of things. If we could figure out how to get them to play lock each other out for another 11 months and get Congress to emulate them, we might have a chance to fix the destruction being done all across the land.

[Larry381]

The Supreme Soviet of the People's Republic of New York helped the process by doing no harm for a month. It's when they're in session that they make a mess of things.

How right you are-they're back in session and the first thing they did was vote to increase the sales tax.