As I’ve written previously, Sandy Parker’s Business Council and its Rosemary’s Baby, Unshackle Upstate, are congenitally incapable of truthtelling. Their obsession on vanquishing public sector unions is all consuming and leads them to pure distilled demagoguery.
Their latest report rehashes their old musty trope that New York State’s economy is circling the drain because of a bunch of fat and lazy state workers who are sucking up All Our Tax Dollars. The report stirs the unfocused anger of New Yorkers who feel that they are working harder and falling behind, and directs that anger at… State Workers! Let’s set aside the small matter that the report just isn’t true and address the broader dynamics of the matter.
Check it out, the chambers of commerce all pushed to allow Wall Street to pedal predatory loans to working families and then sliced and diced those bad mortgages, hiding the risk. They then went on to get triple AAA ratings on these bad loans, leveraged MASSIVE side bets on the action and these Wall Street Masters of the Universe made millions on this worthless crap. And when the whole house of cards came crashing down the entire planetary economy got sucked into the vortex with it.
But the problem in New York, according to the bankers who fund Unshackle Upstate, the problem in New York is that state nurses and engineers work their entire lives, earn a living wage, and get to retire with a fucking pension.
I shit you not.
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