{"id":669,"date":"2009-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/07\/a-budget-that-reflects-ny\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:00:00","slug":"a-budget-that-reflects-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/07\/a-budget-that-reflects-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"A budget that reflects NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Paterson is drawing heavy fire for his new budget &#8212; and rightly so.  (See the Press-Republican&#8217;s take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/0201_editorials\/local_story_096212756.html\">here<\/a>.)  It manages to serve up a fair amount of bloat, while at the same time dishing out some serious pain.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that this budget reflects pretty accurately the American sense of entitlement. <\/p>\n<p>We all want tons of government &#8212; everything from healthcare to job creation &#8212; but we&#8217;re indignant at the idea of paying for it.<\/p>\n<p>In the early going, Governor Paterson rolled out an austerity budget (no tax increases, serious cuts to government services, a fairly tough line with public employee unions), but his poll numbers tanked.<\/p>\n<p>With public opinion ratings under 30%, and the unions and hospitals hitting him from both flanks, it&#8217;s hard to see how he could have taken a tougher line with Democratic leaders in the Assembly and the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old saying that in a democracy the people get the government they deserve. <\/p>\n<p>The truth is that this budget, ugly as it is, reflects New Yorkers&#8217; lingering appeteite for a free lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Paterson is drawing heavy fire for his new budget &#8212; and rightly so. (See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}