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Well, we know what New York's future will be: Old Ladies eating cat food, starving masses everywhere, school children with no books, no police, fire protection, poor people with no heat in their homes. Oh, the humanity! It's gonna be hell.

Where are the protesters? Michael Moore? Union thugs? SEIU Enforcers???

Why no tax increase on 'the rich'????????

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011...-spending-cuts

Cuomo, lawmakers reach New York State budget deal, agreeing on 2% cut in spending and no new taxes

BY KENNETH LOVETT AND GLENN BLAIN
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU

Sunday, March 27, 2011

ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers struck a deal Sunday for an on-time $132.5 billion budget that Mayor Bloomberg promptly slammed as a ripoff to the city.

The agreement, five days before the March 31 deadline, calls for a 2% across-the-board cut in spending and plugs a $10 billion deficit.

It does this without any broad tax hikes or borrowing, said Cuomo, who took office only three months ago.

Still, Bloomberg branded the deal as "disappointing" and "painful" - with nowhere near enough funding for New York City to "avoid additional layoffs."

"We appreciate that some of the cuts in education aid were restored," said Bloomberg, who has warned he'll need to lay off 4,600 teachers. "But make no mistake: The final budget still cuts New York City more than ever before."

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Are you really that out of touch? Do you think the protests are just for show, just a game? It's about the issues, and if the Empire State was able to get what it had to done while not increasing taxes and conceivably moderate cutting, then that's great (horray, home!). It also was a somewhat bipartisan effort (I followed it 'cause it is still home), and while the Republicans seem to have come out looking better between the two parties, it still, as the story says, was a bill which was able to maintain and restore some aid programs.

So tell me, what's to protest?

Working together, bipartisanship. The nation can learn a lot from the best state in the union.