Jerry Brown Acts While Cuomo Fiddles With Committees And Is Slapped By Legislature.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. ~Abraham Lincoln 
 
"California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a budget on Monday that included "painful" cuts to state worker pay and social services and a plan to extend tax increases ... to close a $25.4 billion deficit."  and "Alarmed at discovering that the state pays for 96,000 cellphones, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order ...Requiring 48,000 cellphones to be turned in ...will save the state about $20 million a year."
 
      While on Monday, it was bye , bye, to some Cuomo's promises, "As the first week of New York’s legislative session began, the good will of lawmakers rallying around Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top priorities gave way ...Opposing lines between the majorities of the Senate and Assembly were being drawn Monday over Cuomo’s proposal to cap the growth in property taxes at no more than 2 percent a year. Opposition also surfaced about whether to end, as scheduled, a temporary income tax hike on New Yorkers making more than $200,000 a year.... Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Monday that his Democratic majority is discussing whether Cuomo’s proposed property tax cap limit of 2 percent or a lesser inflation rate is too low. Democrats also are discussing whether there should be more instances in which the cap could be suspended, such as an unexpected expense like a health care spike or big court judgment."  

    And it was bye, bye, to Cuomo's rent control and property tax cap as, "The Senate’s Republican majority strongly supports the property tax cap, ... But on Monday the Republicans refused to trade the cap for one of Silver’s top priorities. ... rent regulation in New York City on 1 million apartments, critical to the majority’s New York City base."  

       So, Cuomo will continue the Albany Follies Sideshow replacing Governor Paterson with himself and Andrew Cuomo will add his Fiddling to the performance. 
 
       Sadly, the Finger-Pointing Albany Follies' acts have grown stale.  There's no more money to spend.   The piper wants his fee. 

     Please Andrew, please don't cry; the People will understand; you tried; the committees couldn't find enough cuts; the legislature dropped the ball; it's not Andrew's fault: it's their fault. 

 

Do or not do.  There is no try. ~Yoda