{"id":752,"date":"2007-10-19T08:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T12:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/the-cow-and-the-putz-want-a-woodstock-museum\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T13:42:14","slug":"the-cow-and-the-putz-want-a-woodstock-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"The Cow and the Putz want a Woodstock Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also from the Examiner, written by Susan Ferrachio, more pork from the Senators for New York; “Schumer, Clinton get skewered over $1M Woodstock earmark<\/a>”<\/p>\n

It was a little like throwing a juicy steak into a pit of hungry lions. Republicans could hardly contain their glee Thursday at the prospect of skewering Democrats on the Senate floor over a $1 million earmark for a museum in upstate New York commemorating the 1969 Woodstock concert.<\/p>\n

The earmark was requested by New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two Democratic senators, Charles Schumer and presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton, who said the money would help build a performing arts center that could boost the area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s depressed economy.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m proud of this earmark, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the right type of earmark,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Schumer said on the Senate floor during a debate over a Republican amendment to remove the money from a health and human services spending bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, that’s what New York needs – a museum to celebrate smelly hippies. I’ll give Mr. Schumer a little history lesson about the “area’s depressed economy” – Mrs. Clinton should read, too, because I’m sure the carpetbagger doesn’t know about New York recent history.<\/p>\n

In the 70s, Upstate New York was a booming economy – manufacturing and retail facilities across the State. Several chain stores were founded there, auto manufacturers, typewriter-makers, breweries, even chocolate factories kept the hard-working locals employed. Then we got Mario Cuomo for governor.<\/p>\n

Before Cuomo, there was a six-month residency requirement before anyone could collect welfare in New York State – which\u00c2\u00a0paid some of the highest benefits in the country because the economy there did so well. Cuomo\u00c2\u00a0waived that requirement.<\/p>\n

Well, a blind man could see what would happen next – welfare recipients streamed into New York State from the South and cashed in on their good fortune. New York State’s economy flourished for a while, but the State government had a hard time paying out the benefits to so many people – so\u00c2\u00a0Cuomo’s answer to the problem\u00c2\u00a0was what you might expect from a tax-and-spend liberal. Raise taxes on businesses\u00c2\u00a0– and a blind man could also see the impending result. Businesses left New York for the lower tax States in the South.<\/p>\n

Now Upstate New York is a wasteland of closed factories and department stores. But Albany still can’t get off of the tax teat – despite 12 years of Govenor Pataki (who was quite a disappointment to me) – and Spitzer isn’t helping either. New York State is like a third world country – since there is no real money in the State, they depend on out-of-Staters to bring them cash in the form of tourist dollars.<\/p>\n

Now Schumer and Clinton want to perpetuate that strategy by using taxpayer dollars to build, of all things, a Woodstock Museum – a monument to sloth and marginal talent. Why attract musicians to New York State? They don’t have any money – that’s why they’re musicians.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Apparently the museum was shot down<\/a> in the Senate, but I suspect that Republicans wouldn’t have blocked it if it’d been two different Democrats\u00c2\u00a0trying to spend tax payer dollars. For example, if the museum was being built in Nancy Pelosi’s district.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also from the Examiner, written by Susan Ferrachio, more pork from the Senators for New York; … The Cow and the Putz want a Woodstock Museum<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-historical","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}