CONSERVATIVE PARTY: WEEKLY EXTENDERS ARE THE BEST IDEA ALBANY HAS HAD IN YEARS
Urges Progressive Democrats to Keep It Up — Ideally for the Next 52 Weeks
Brooklyn-Apr. 14…New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar today issued the following statement congratulating Governor Kathy Hochul and the Democrat-controlled Legislature on what he called “the single most fiscally responsible act of their careers” — their inability to pass a state budget:
“On behalf of New York’s beleaguered taxpayers, I want to sincerely thank the Governor and the Legislature for their continued failure to agree on a budget. Frankly, we had no idea they had it in them.
“For weeks now, Albany has been funding state government through weekly extenders based on last year’s spending levels. Let me be the first to say: this is the plan. Don’t change a thing. We are begging you.
“Under Governor Hochul, state spending has exploded by more than 40 percent. The extenders, by contrast, are a kind of methadone — keeping the patient alive at last year’s dosage while the people who caused the addiction argue about how much more to inject.
“It is a rare and beautiful thing when a government’s incompetence accidentally aligns with the public interest. Like a stopped clock, Albany is right — twice a day, or in this case, once a week, every week, for as long as they can manage it.
“The Conservative Party hereby formally requests that the Democrat-run Legislature continue doing absolutely nothing. You’re better at it than anything else you’ve tried. The people of New York are, for once, getting exactly the government they’re paying for — last year’s government, at last year’s prices. In this state that’s a bargain.”
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CONSERVATIVE PARTY: WEEKLY EXTENDERS ARE THE BEST IDEA ALBANY HAS HAD IN YEARS
Urges Progressive Democrats to Keep It Up — Ideally for the Next 52 Weeks
Brooklyn-Apr. 14…New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar today issued the following statement congratulating Governor Kathy Hochul and the Democrat-controlled Legislature on what he called “the single most fiscally responsible act of their careers” — their inability to pass a state budget:
“On behalf of New York’s beleaguered taxpayers, I want to sincerely thank the Governor and the Legislature for their continued failure to agree on a budget. Frankly, we had no idea they had it in them.
“For weeks now, Albany has been funding state government through weekly extenders based on last year’s spending levels. Let me be the first to say: this is the plan. Don’t change a thing. We are begging you.
“Under Governor Hochul, state spending has exploded by more than 40 percent. The extenders, by contrast, are a kind of methadone — keeping the patient alive at last year’s dosage while the people who caused the addiction argue about how much more to inject.
“It is a rare and beautiful thing when a government’s incompetence accidentally aligns with the public interest. Like a stopped clock, Albany is right — twice a day, or in this case, once a week, every week, for as long as they can manage it.
“The Conservative Party hereby formally requests that the Democrat-run Legislature continue doing absolutely nothing. You’re better at it than anything else you’ve tried. The people of New York are, for once, getting exactly the government they’re paying for — last year’s government, at last year’s prices. In this state that’s a bargain.”