# Not the Status Cuomo **URL:** \ **Category:** PolitiSUCK\ **Created:** [February 1, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750 "2011-02-01T09:10:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750/1 "2011-02-01T09:10:08Z")
So Gov. Cuomo just put out his first budget. It is the most moderate/conservative thing I have ever seen from a NYS Democrat. I agree with most of it, although it goes against my ideology this state is just too damn bloated. I think the cuts to education and TAP, and letting the millionaires’ surcharge expire are poor choices, but it finally addresses NY’s Medicaid morass. > **[UPDATE 6-NY's Cuomo slashes spending, freezes taxes in budget](https://www.reuters.com/article/newyork-budget/update-6-nys-cuomo-slashes-spending-freezes-taxes-in-budget-idUKN0129299220110201)** > > \* Proposal would lay off 9,800 state workers \* $1.5 bln cut from schools, $1 bln from Medicaid \* Cuomo says "New York is functionally bankrupt" (Adds link to FACTBOX) By Joan Gralla and Daniel Trotta NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - New York Governor... [http://www.buffalonews.com/city/capital-connection/albany/article329908.ece](http://www.buffalonews.com/city/capital-connection/albany/article329908.ece) Shelly Silver must be shitting bricks waiting to tear this thing apart. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750/2 "2011-02-01T20:22:16Z")
I totally forgot this came out today :tup: I hope he can get this shit though this year… because next year is an election year and we all know politicians like to “play it safe”… At least he isn’t raising taxes 66% like Illinois just did. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750/3 "2011-03-27T21:49:27Z")
> **[New York governor and lawmakers reach budget deal](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newyork-budget-agreement/new-york-governor-and-lawmakers-reach-budget-deal-idUSTRE72R02220110328?WT.tsrc=Social%20Media&WT.z_smid=twtr-reuters_%20com&WT.z_smid_dest=Twitter)** > > New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and top lawmakers agreed on Sunday evening to a $132.5 billion budget that includes massive spending cuts and possibly 9,800 layoffs for state workers to bring some order to the cash-strapped state's finances. :tup: to Cuomo More poop in the pants of public employee unions. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750/4 "2011-03-27T23:59:47Z")
For the most part I support the deal. Only thing I hate is that he didn’t keep the millionaire’s tax in order to spare some of the cuts to education. This isn’t the time to be lowering taxes on the people most able to afford them. At least they got a deal done in a civil fashion. Sets a good example for how to do this sort of thing, whereas that asshole Walker in Wisconsin does the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750/5 "2011-03-28T06:05:24Z")
Well yeah, the opposition party didn’t skip town and play hold-out in another state, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-the-status-cuomo/208750/6 "2011-03-28T09:05:45Z")
Wow. First early budget since I was one year old. Not bad. Sucks that UB 2020 got axed, but oh well. Hard times…