Beside the fact the Albany smothers us with mandates we have a corrupt political system, a corrupt school system and a society that has become more and more dependent upon government to sustain them as businesses have left because of taxes, mandates, insurance costs, regulations, etc, etc, etc, etc….. It is and has been and endless cycle with no real end insight.

Look what happens when we try to get our politicians to respond to the ever growing costs of government. A simple thing of taking cars away from employees that keep them 24-7 and WE pay for everything including gasoline and insurance. The unions yell and scream take it to court and then the court says they are right and we can’t take away cars because past practice now has become a union privilege and perk. What a bunch of crap. And of course the mayor himself needs his car and driver to drive him everywhere including to political events long after the work day is done.

We have a council that just looks at how they can help the people by giving them a fish everyday instead of teaching them how to fish. But we are beyond that point, there is not enough jobs here to sustain the population. The only businesses that are coming here are ones that are bribed by our politicians with tax breaks and as soon as those are gone they leave, unless of course they are bribed again. When the largest employers are government, government, government and grocery stores it is time to admit we are completely upside down.

Now we actually have efforts to downsize government… Great idea, I have been advocating this for years but will it happen? It will if WE THE PEOPLE demand it. But as we have seen the politicos don’t like the idea, they refuse to give up their jobs and perks, besides after 5 years most of them are vetted in the pensions. We have layer after layer of government and layer after layer, after layer in the school districts. All are killing us with their pensions, health care, patronage jobs, did I say PATRONAGE jobs?

How many people here collect SSI, food stamps, welfare, heap, Medicaid, Medicare, or get other perks from the government? just curious…just curious as to the ratio per capita vs other cities across this country.