Governor Spitzer continues his upstate public relations campaign, “Operation Strategic Investment.” Frankly, Spitzer’s plans are not very strategic nor much of an investment. Over ninety percent of the $850 million in disbursements are redecorated bribes allocated during Pataki’s last term of office. Payoffs to existing employers and contractors, in the form of state grants, will [...]
Archive for October 2007
Spitzer’s Upstate Follies, Part II – By George J. Marlin
October 28, 2007Spitzer’s Buffalo Follies – By George J. Marlin
October 24, 2007To get the media’s focus off the scandals plaguing his administration, Governor Spitzer unveiled an $850 million economic development plan he claims will revitalize Western New York’s largest ailing cities, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Spitzer’s “strategic investment” scheme, which includes the construction of housing, malls and a 200 thousand square-foot sporting goods store, is not [...]
New York “Nanny” State – By George J. Marlin
October 14, 2007In the early 20th Century, British journalist G.K. Chesterton warned that elites, in the name of progress, would attempt to deliver the common man from perceived miseries by imposing on him faddist social bromides. These modern emancipators he predicted would initiate “a new persecution of the common man.” David Harsanyi, in his fine new book, [...]
The Pataki Legacy – By George J. Marlin
October 7, 2007When Governor Pataki left office on December 31, 2006, he quickly slid into obscurity. The impact of his reckless fiscal policies, however, still command the attention of every New York taxpayer. The Public Policy Institute revealed in May that New York’s per capita combined state and local taxes at the end of 2005 were the [...]
