Paterson cuts: ‘hard and painful choices'
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lauerzНашла я тут сайт с местными новостями (www.lohud.com). Просто обхохочешься, Московский Комсомолец отдыхает.
Сегодня вот новость как всегда, просто зашибись. Я ее запощу по частям сначала в посте, а потом в комментах, т.к. LJ-cut у меня сегодня че-то не работает.
Интересно также, как местные читатели на это реагируют. Несколько комментов к новости тоже покажу.
ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson this afternoon called for mid-year cuts in school aid and health-care spending as a way to close a $3 billion budget deficit that threatens the state's fiscal health.
Paterson said his plan would create a two-year, $5 billion reduction in the deficit by cutting aid, implementing a new pension tier for retirees and putting a cap on state spending.
He implored the state Legislature, which has been reluctant to embrace budget cuts, to work with him to quickly address the budget gap.
"This will mean hard and painful choices, but that is exactly the type of leadership New Yorkers deserve from their public officials," he said.
The governor presented a two-year, $5 billion plan to close the deficit - $3 billion in the current year and $2 billion in 2010-11.
The reductions include $1.3 billion from local assistance programs - $686 million from education; $287 million from Medicaid; $184 million from other health and mental-hygiene programs; $28 million from social services; $67 million from the Aid and Incentives to Municipalities program; $125 million from transportation; and $62 million from higher education.
Paterson recently ordered state agencies to cut their budgets by a total of $500 million, which is counted in his plan.
The governor is recommending more than $1 billion in cuts to other areas, such as a tax amnesty program, reductions to the state's interest costs and more aggressive Medicaid-fraud targets.
"There are no taxes in this plan, nor will I tolerate any taxes in any plan," he said.
"This is a very painful plan, but we will share the burden," he added.
Paterson said he expects he will come under harsh criticism for his proposal, but the cuts are the only way to keep the state from going into default.
After increasing spending and taxes when the 2009-10 budget was approved in April, the state has faced a steep decline in sales and income-tax revenue, creating what in July was estimated to be a $2.1 billion deficit.
But as the economy in New York continues to struggle, the deficit has grown to $3 billion, and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned Wednesday it could grow to $4 billion in the next few months if cuts aren't made.
Still, legislative leaders have indicated that they will hold public hearings around the state before agreeing to any of Paterson's cuts. Paterson had sought to get legislative leaders to submit their own budget-cutting ideas, but Democrats didn't provide any.
"We will be prepared to assess all of this, get all the members input and get the public's input and to make sure that we can come up with a credible plan that deals with the crisis," Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said on Talk 1300-AM radio in Albany this morning.
Сегодня вот новость как всегда, просто зашибись. Я ее запощу по частям сначала в посте, а потом в комментах, т.к. LJ-cut у меня сегодня че-то не работает.
Интересно также, как местные читатели на это реагируют. Несколько комментов к новости тоже покажу.
ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson this afternoon called for mid-year cuts in school aid and health-care spending as a way to close a $3 billion budget deficit that threatens the state's fiscal health.
Paterson said his plan would create a two-year, $5 billion reduction in the deficit by cutting aid, implementing a new pension tier for retirees and putting a cap on state spending.
He implored the state Legislature, which has been reluctant to embrace budget cuts, to work with him to quickly address the budget gap.
"This will mean hard and painful choices, but that is exactly the type of leadership New Yorkers deserve from their public officials," he said.
The governor presented a two-year, $5 billion plan to close the deficit - $3 billion in the current year and $2 billion in 2010-11.
The reductions include $1.3 billion from local assistance programs - $686 million from education; $287 million from Medicaid; $184 million from other health and mental-hygiene programs; $28 million from social services; $67 million from the Aid and Incentives to Municipalities program; $125 million from transportation; and $62 million from higher education.
Paterson recently ordered state agencies to cut their budgets by a total of $500 million, which is counted in his plan.
The governor is recommending more than $1 billion in cuts to other areas, such as a tax amnesty program, reductions to the state's interest costs and more aggressive Medicaid-fraud targets.
"There are no taxes in this plan, nor will I tolerate any taxes in any plan," he said.
"This is a very painful plan, but we will share the burden," he added.
Paterson said he expects he will come under harsh criticism for his proposal, but the cuts are the only way to keep the state from going into default.
After increasing spending and taxes when the 2009-10 budget was approved in April, the state has faced a steep decline in sales and income-tax revenue, creating what in July was estimated to be a $2.1 billion deficit.
But as the economy in New York continues to struggle, the deficit has grown to $3 billion, and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned Wednesday it could grow to $4 billion in the next few months if cuts aren't made.
Still, legislative leaders have indicated that they will hold public hearings around the state before agreeing to any of Paterson's cuts. Paterson had sought to get legislative leaders to submit their own budget-cutting ideas, but Democrats didn't provide any.
"We will be prepared to assess all of this, get all the members input and get the public's input and to make sure that we can come up with a credible plan that deals with the crisis," Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said on Talk 1300-AM radio in Albany this morning.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:18 am (UTC)But as the economy in New York continues to struggle, the deficit has grown to $3 billion, and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned Wednesday it could grow to $4 billion in the next few months if cuts aren't made.
Still, legislative leaders have indicated that they will hold public hearings around the state before agreeing to any of Paterson's cuts. Paterson had sought to get legislative leaders to submit their own budget-cutting ideas, but Democrats didn't provide any.
"We will be prepared to assess all of this, get all the members input and get the public's input and to make sure that we can come up with a credible plan that deals with the crisis," Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said on Talk 1300-AM radio in Albany this morning.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:24 am (UTC)Yeah, I guess he's finding out it's not as much fun as he thought. There's more to the job than hanging out with rappers and going to parties in the Hampton's. Maybe he won't run for reelection next year after all now that someone has pointed him to his office and given him his job description.