"Governor Renault" Cuomo Is Having A Blast Repeating The Same Line From Casablanca

News Flash: Cuomo had promised to improve the business climate with no new taxes and was shocked to learn, "NY owes the Federal Government "$115 million in interest on $3.2 billion [the loan's debt is not in NY budget], the cost will be passed on to employers in the form of a tax surcharge. The chickens are coming home to roost.

Now on to Theatrical diversion, as Andrew Cuomo and The Albany Follies are remaking "Casablanca" and will highlight Andrew Cuomo's starring role as the modern Captain Renault

                 The Original Casablanca script:

Rick:   How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault:  I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
a croupier hands Renault a pile of money
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: Oh, thank you very much.

       "Governor Renault" Cuomo was earlier "Attorney-General Renault" Cuomo investigating Medicaid corruption and some how he missed:  Evil Republicans (Congresspersons) in US House report released a "congressional report ... During a two-year investigation, 65,000 instances of prescription fraud cost U.S. taxpayers about $65 million in the top five states alone. An additional $2.3 million went to practitioners and pharmacies banned from federal health care programs, nearly 2,000 prescriptions were written for dead patients and 1,200 prescriptions were written by dead doctors."

    And in non-Medicaid fraud, "Attorney-General Renault" was shocked that in the district of Peter Rivera, a Bronx Democrat Assemblyman, "investigators were eyeing more than $200,000 in interest-free loans made from 'a state-funded community organization with strong ties to a veteran assemblyman."

    "Governor Renault"is still shocked how could they could smear him with his pure heart and label his  "New York as one of five states with the highest rate of Medicaid fraud."     Of course, all this thieving and corruption will be eliminated when ethics education is mandated. "Governor Renault" knows those poor educational-deprived victims facing criminal charges hadn't the benefit of the ethics classes, he is proposing.

     Meanwhile, "Governor Renault" will continued to be shocked when his Medicaid Redesign Team can't succeed in its goal to reduce Medicaid costs down (50%?) while maintaining and improving quality.   "Governor Renault has heard that:  1."Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." ~John Kenneth Galbraith

2. “If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.” ~Charles Franklin Kettering.

3. Committees are “A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”`~John A. Lincoln.

4. "Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better."(Peter F. Drucker)

But "Governor Renault" will change that by expanding his committees and holding more meetings.

  Cuomo's Medicaid Redesign Team is flourishing and  expanding to "seeking everyone’s help in finding solutions."    The Team "is charged with recommending ways of cutting costs and improving quality and efficiency in the state’s nearly $54 billion [up from the paltry $38 Billion from Comptroller's report] health-care program for the poor. In addition to attending one of the hearings, members of the public can submit any ideas online. The panel will submit its initial report to the governor March 1, in time for recommendations to be used in crafting the 2011-12 state budget." 
      “At its current rate of growth, New York’s Medicaid program is unsustainable,” said Redesign Team Co-chairman Michael Dowling, president and CEO of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health system."   "Governor Renault" will be shocked when the Co-chairman has not recommended a 50% reduction in his Medicaid funding and didn't they hear that cutting the growth of spending is not cutting spending? "Governor Renault" has just thanked an aide for giving him a summary of how much was contributed to his campaign by members of his Medicaid Redesign Team.

Isn't Andrew handsome in his Renault uniform; doesn't he say his lines believably; hasn't he's tried harder than anyone else?
[Now, applaud] [please, applaud]

 Do, or do not. There is no 'try.' ~ Jedi Master Yoda

P.S. Andrew hasn't been sleeping well.  He's keeps dreaming of the "Ghost of  NY yet to come."