# School aid increases... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 1, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-aid-increases/23909 "2007-02-01T11:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![rskrause](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rskrause/32/7367_2.png) [@rskrause](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rskrause)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-aid-increases/23909/45 "2007-02-03T05:52:56Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > ^ There are very few people left in NYS that get it the way this guy does. Most of them have given up and moved to other states. > > I have a feeling in the next 5 years I’ll probably be out too. Right now I have some old relatives I’m very close with and don’t want to move, but when they’re gone I think I’ll give up on this state too. I’ll just be one more educated, high earning tax payer gone from this area, and the state will just raise the taxes a little more to make up for my absense. Jay: that’s what keeping me here, family. My son is getting married, just bought a house a few blocks away and my daughter is probably going to college in the general area. I don’t think I will be able to get the wifey away from the kids and possible grandkids. At least some of us see what’s going on here. Unfortunately, we are too few and too disorganized to change much. I see continual decline in the area as the population ages, productive people move out, and the government gets ever larger and more expensive. Interesting fact, the budget for Erie County alone is ~$1.4 billion annually. That is is larger than the entire GNP of the 30 or so poorest countries!!! And we pay for local and state (and federal) government as well. WTF is going on. And we put a Republican into Albany, which did nothing. We had a Republican majority in Congress and in the White House and still the beat goes on with ever more government spending. I think the federal government is headed the same was as NYS. More like Europe than the US of old. Stagnant economy, creeping socialism, stifling government. Sad to see it happen, it really is. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-aid-increases/23909)._