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The NY Senate

It must be nice to have a job where you can ignore your work for more than two weeks, then still take your summer vacation without repercussion.

This week in the soap opera that is New York politics, a bunch of Republican and two Democrat senators decided that rather than doing the job they were elected/hired and getting paid to do, they would waste everyone’s time and money in a B.S. struggle to be crowned “leader of the senate”! So while we tax paying citizens get shafted, these scumbags are dickering over a title that nobody cares about. Get back to work you SOBs or we will find someone else to do your jobs.

How Do You Think NY Should Spend It’s Budget?

Who among us hasn’t thought that they could do a better job managing NY’s money? While I’m sure this task is far more difficult than managing my household budget, I still wouldn’t mind taking a crack at the state’s fiscal focus.

It sounds as if Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith wants to give us arm-chair economists our chance. Smith is setting up a Web site, e-mail, phone and text options for New Yorkers to share our ideas on how the legislature and governor should spend $120 billion.

Here are those contact details. Plans are also in the works for a Twitter page. Stay tuned for that when it becomes available.

Web: http://www.nybudgetideas.org

e-mail: nybudgetideas@senate.state.ny.us

Text: Type NYSS to the number 41411 for budget updates sent to your phone

Toll-free number: 800-706-9995