Prodigal Conservative Cuomo Splurges On Irene, While Liberal Vermonters Proceed Frugally

Thank God, Prince Cuomo is the government dream that New Yorkers want and they deserve to get it good and hard  ~ H. L. Mencken adopted


  A New York Fiscal Conservative
versus Vermont Liberals

Here are the words about Fiscal Conservative Cuomo on the reopening Rt. 73 in the Adirondacks:

 (Although, New York State and local government will pay 25% or more)
"he does not foresee the state having to borrow any money to pay for the cleanup and recovery."
"Cuomo's office inventoried what it took to get both lanes open by Monday: approximately 150,000 tons of stone; a total of 2,700 man-hours of labor; as well as a squadron of trucks, excavators, rollers and tree-removal machinery."
“government actually worked”

(Cuomo shows his toughness and leadership qualities.)
"people jump when the governor says jump."
"either wheels are going to roll or heads are going to roll."
He gave out T-shirts with 'Governor Andrew Cuomo's Labor for your Neighbor Hurricane Clean-Up Team'

(Cuomo overrules the civil engineers.)
"initial analysis projected the repairs taking two months"
"7 days after the Governor promised the highway would be open in 10 days, Rt. 73 reopened".

  Here are the Liberals speaking in Vermont:

"I think the worst thing that we could do for policy-wise or as a state government is to go in and throw money after something where we really haven't made a full assessment in doing that. I think that's where you end up throwing good money after bad,"  said Sen. John Campbell, D-Vt. President Pro Tem

Governor Shumlin says sorting out the costs and who ends up paying for what could take months.  "We're in a long marathon here, not a sprint,"

  After the voters pay the bills, will they want more of  Shumlin and Campbell's liberal frugality or Cuomo's conservative prodigal style?

Perhaps, Cuomo should have heeded that note from his remedial arithmetic tutor.

Dear Andrew,
1. Bye, bye, balanced New York State budget.
  New York economy takes MULTI-BILLION hit from Irene on vital weekend... as experts warn U.S. clean-up cost will outstrip Katrina
2. In construction, the rule is measure twice and cut once.
3. In finance, it's figure the cost first, find the cash second and then spend third.
4. Where are you or the counties or the towns going to get the money?    The tooth fairy doesn't have that 25% share.
5. Did you ask why civil engineers would allow time for compaction of fill material?
6. Overtime and double overtime is expensive and a wise man does his arithmetic.
7.Are these roads just going to be rebuilt in the Spring, because of haste now?
Finally, 1+1=2 applies to thousands and millions and billions of dollars.

Check out: New York Taxpayers Find The Local Tax Cap And Balanced Budget Were Only To Fool The Suckers

A Cuomo Hack Involved When $17 Billion Was Missing, Followed The Next Year By A Missing $59 Billion At HUD Is Running Hurricane Irene Recovery

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~  George Santayana

 Did Cuomo and his lawyer, Glaser, reach their level of incompetence at HUD with $76 Billion in missing money?  ~ Peter Principle

Where  the $76 billion dollars went

         Andrew Cuomo gave his old HUD hack, Howard Glaser, aka State Directer of Operations, control of the Irene repair effort. "Glaser, who served as Cuomo's Deputy Counsel during his tenure as President Bill Clinton’s HUD secretary, said the governor’s experience on the federal level was and will be brought to bear throughout the storm and recovery."  

    The people should know that Cuomo's experience on the federal level was a fiscal disaster.  "When Cuomo became HUD Secretary in 1997, he axed a federal program that had saved the U.S. $2.2 billion between 1994 and 1997 and reinstituted a system that lost the government money while earning billions for favored friends.  That wasn’t the only big money lost. When Cuomo was secretary, HUD reported that $59 billion was missing! It couldn’t say where they money went, because it failed to produce audited financial statements.   The Department of Housing and Urban Development is renowned for corruption. Historically, fraud has been so pervasive and blatant that the Sopranos episode on it was disturbingly realistic."

  This is how Cuomo handled public money:
"In fiscal year 1998, HUD had “undocumentable adjustments” of $17 billion: that is, $17 billion could not be accounted for. In fiscal 1999, HUD announced that it required $59 billion of “undocumentable adjustments” to balance the books and that it would not provide audited financial statements as required by law."

    The "compassionate" Cuomo did not want those taking any of the $59 billion to suffer a government witch hunt and so, "Cuomo did not order the HUD Inspector General to investigate the reason for the missing billions or to try to get the money back."   

 Who's watching Howard Glaser and our money this time?