Maybe you can explain where $100 million dollars for revitalization in the City of Schenectady has gone to SB.
Where are all the jobs? Why is the unemplyment rate 9%? Why are property taxes triple in the City than in Saratoga County? If the County is doing so great, why are taxes going up 1.5% and Metroplex is down to its last 3 million?
That's A LOT of money gone in a very short amount of time with nothing substantial to show for it. That's criminal.
The latest joke DEM mailer has the job creation number at only 3,500. In 3 weeks the working together DEM crew has lost 500 jobs! Now that the press is asking where the jobs "created" are the numbers keep shrinking. McCarthy created 4 jobs for himself.
Then why is the County Leg raising taxes if they're creating so much business and sales tax?
As senders says, politicians should not be getting a pat on the back when businesses come to the area. On the contrary, the Metroplex has perverted itself and morphed into a political payback scheme for certain businessowners. It's no longer about development or the welfare of the City, it's about connected political players getting as much money as they can without anyone questioning the long-term impact on the City or the taxpayers.
It's economically unsound, it hasn't helped the City taxpayers at all and dubbing this a Renaissance is merely fiction at its finest.
Well said. But it is obvious that the city/county leaders are ignoring and not listening to the plea's of the taxpayers. However they do listen and don't ignore the folks at the dss building since they offer a lucrative welfare pkg. NYS isn't know as the welfare capital of the world for nothing. Keep 'em dumbed down and uneducated is the slogan to guarantee re-election.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Then why is the County Leg raising taxes if they're creating so much business and sales tax?
As senders says, politicians should not be getting a pat on the back when businesses come to the area. On the contrary, the Metroplex has perverted itself and morphed into a political payback scheme for certain businessowners. It's no longer about development or the welfare of the City, it's about connected political players getting as much money as they can without anyone questioning the long-term impact on the City or the taxpayers.
It's economically unsound, it hasn't helped the City taxpayers at all and dubbing this a Renaissance is merely fiction at its finest.
the cost of unfunded state mandates are what is causing the increase in property taxes -- even with cost cutting in other areas and the economic development efforts of Metroplex -- the cost of unfunded state mandates are rising each year .. and the state just automatically withdraws that $$$ from the county's bank accounts
you folks really need to EDUCATE YOURSELF on these topics before you come up with your negative comments and conspiracy theories .... because you are way off the mark and it makes you look foolish
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the cost of unfunded state mandates are what is causing the increase in property taxes -- even with cost cutting in other areas and the economic development efforts of Metroplex -- the cost of unfunded state mandates are rising each year .. and the state just automatically withdraws that $$$ from the county's bank accounts
you folks really need to EDUCATE YOURSELF on these topics before you come up with your negative comments and conspiracy theories .... because you are way off the mark and it makes you look foolish
the elected should be pulling down the top instead of feathering their beds.....you would have gotten that from the conversations if you weren't such a party puppet.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
McCarthy phony baloney job update! Because Death Ray and the working together DEM idiots got slapped in the face by GE Solar the number of jobs they allegedly "created" has been revised downward. Way down. The new number is 10. 4 for McCarthy and 6 new hot dog vendors. This is subject to further revision in the colder weather. Keep the implosion going! Next up-McCarthy as alleged mortgage banker.
McCarthy phony baloney job update! Because Death Ray and the working together DEM idiots got slapped in the face by GE Solar the number of jobs they allegedly "created" has been revised downward. Way down. The new number is 10. 4 for McCarthy and 6 new hot dog vendors. This is subject to further revision in the colder weather. Keep the implosion going! Next up-McCarthy as alleged mortgage banker.
Oh not to worry.......if/when Gary McCarthy loses the mayor's election...there will be some created patronage job waiting for him just like there was for Kosiur and Stratton and Savage. Remember....stratton skipped town because he knew that he could never win another election....same for Kosiur.......same for savage! If the political climate changes after this election.....there will be more skipping town.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
McCarthy will lose because he is another Bella Abzug. The people that know him the most will vote for Roger Hull. Look at the GE Realty Plot. The political climate has already changed-the opposition just needed to be organized.
why, get organized, cause the election is like a a month away.. plenty of time. maybe u can find some qualified candidates who would like to run for office/ any luck there yet?
McCarthy will lose because he is another Bella Abzug. The people that know him the most will vote for Roger Hull. Look at the GE Realty Plot. The political climate has already changed-the opposition just needed to be organized.
Many of the neighborhoods, especially the predominately democratic Stockade and GE Plots, are donning LOTS of Hull/Riggi signs. It was surprising to see because this is where many die-hard voters live.
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The latest joke DEM mailer has the job creation number at only 3,500. In 3 weeks the working together DEM crew has lost 500 jobs! Now that the press is asking where the jobs "created" are the numbers keep shrinking. McCarthy created 4 jobs for himself. 
