Sheldon Silver warns against backpedaling? What do we have to do when we find our selves in financial distress? We have to rethink the way we spend our money and reorganize our budgets, correct? Then what the hell is he thinking of doing? Raising taxes?

This is where the Assembly will show their true colors, do they really care about us or do they care more about the special interests that line their campaign war chests? I think we will find it to be the latter. We have to breakdown the power structure, Silver controls everything in that house, it affects all of us across the state yet only a small portion of NY elects the guy. It’s time for him to go.

Politics on the Hudson

Following Gov. David Paterson’s televised address on New York State’s bleak fiscal outlook, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said his members are ready to help get New York’s financial house in order. However, it’s important not to “backpedal” on progress that has been made in providing additional money for pre-kindergarten classes, class-size reduction, nursing home and home-care services, and other programs and services, he said.

“Our answer is that middle class families and our working poor must not be forced to bear the brunt of such cuts. I and my Assembly colleagues believe that this state must not backpedal on the important progress we have made for the hardworking families of this state,” Silver said in a statement.

Silver said he would support a school property-tax cap only if it doesn’t reduce funding for education and be based on homeowners’ ability to pay. The governor and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, support a cap, and the Senate is returning to Albany next month to vote on the issue.