New government (?), reading this we see things have not changed in for the good that’s for sure. We see the same arguments going on today, liberals demanding more and more government spending and higher taxes while Conservatives continue to demand more cuts in taxes and spending.
The Liberals surely are winning this battle just look at us. Highest taxes, lowest business rankings and every other ranking is completely upside down. We are at the top of the bad lists and the bottom of the good lists. Yet we never seem to come close to the middle when there is a call for compromising on issues. Why? Because Liberal policies dominate the state government and look where complete dominance of liberalism has gotten us.
We have turned into the laughing stock of the country with the most dysfunctional legislature in the country. Why? because it is dominated by liberals and rinos each one fighting over control, power and spending on pork and programs. There is no desire for anything near conservative in nature, just pure unadulterated liberal policies from both sides and the governor. Even though Spitzer ran on a more fiscal conservative platform we are not seeing it, instead the opposite has been the fact.
Nothing has changed for the better in all these years, should we expect any difference in the near future? Only in a dream I suppose, only in a dream.
(b. Brooklyn, New York, 11 Apr. 1919) US; member of the US House of Representatives 1960 – 75, Governor of New York 1974 – 83 Educated at St John’s College and St John’s Law School, Carey was for a time employed in the family petrochemicals business. Carey became a Democratic member of the House of Representatives in 1960 and served there until 1974, for part of the time acting as deputy whip.
In 1974 Carey was elected Governor of New York, a post to which he was re-elected in 1978. In office Carey had to impose a programme of financial stringency on the state and as a result alienated both liberals (who wanted more public spending) and conservatives who wanted more radical cuts in the public budget. Carey also incurred unpopularity for his opposition to capital punishment. Although Carey was for a time mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, the policies he had had to enact as Governor were not likely to win votes with the wider democratic constituency. On leaving office Carey became executive vice-president of W. R. Grace.
Carey also fought hard to create an economically favorable climate for entrepreneurial and other business in New York State, primarily through substantially reducing, and in some cases eliminating certain categories of, state taxes.
In promising to end what he sharply criticized as “mismanagement” of state government under the Republicans, Congressman Hugh Carey struck a responsive chord among the electorate. The Times-Union congratulates the new governor on his victory. Mr. Carey undertakes a massive responsibility as he becomes chief executive of a state under strong Republican control for 16 years, and as his party takes over control of the Assembly, the lower house of the state Legislature.
The Carey victory has meaning within his party at least equal to its significance in state government. It could mean the end to long years of intra-party strife among New York City Democrats, as well as cementing relationships between the city and upstate factions if Mr. Carey emerges as a strong Party leader who will seek, and enforce, allegiance to a statewide party organization.
Congressman Carey’s margin of victory was about 16 per cent over Malcolm Wilson, a plurality of more than 730,000 votes which is the greatest in the history of New York State gubernatorial elections.
The resounding mandate to office from the voters must be considered also a mandate to the governor-elect to move strongly to put into effect the changes he has proposed in state programs and policies. They appear to be most desirable, reasonable and certainly worthy of legislative support. They include:
Public financing of election campaigns.
Full financial disclosure by public officials.
Reform of the state’s judicial system.
More open decision making in state government.
Increases in school and financing of mental institutions and prisons.
No tax increases for families with incomes under $25,000.
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