Is it 2012 yet?

What do you know? A non-IT guy for CTO. Brilliant. Now THAT is hope and change! Oh well, I guess we should be getting used to these shockingly bad decisions by the Obama administration. What's next? Emeril in change of the military? Norman Schwarzkopf in charge of healthcare? Ann Coulter in charge of the HUD (oh wait, she's not eligible, she paid her taxes)? Maybe the solution to solving our government's technology problems is to just throw another trillion dollars or so at it. I mean, what's another trillion when we've already spent $12.8 Trillion? That'll only bring Obama's deficit to like 83% of our GDP instead of 80%. Ya know what, for good measure, if $1 Trillion is good $1.5 Trillion is better -- let's do that and create and require the unionization of IT workers. That's what we'll do! It'll be patriotic! Is it 2012 yet?

Well -- as a politician why do you have to bother make sound economic decisions? Remember, Barack Obama and the congressional democrats will be passing legislation to 'bail out' NYS and other havens of idiocy in the first half of next year. The problem is that we refuse to make hard choices and elect short-sighted politicians who allow us to continue to dig ourselves a deeper grave by offering us free handouts and putting us into a state of denial. To make things worse, we've decided to let these same people run the entire country. While the conservative, blue collar parts of the country have been able to support our welfare state for a while its all starting to come to a head -- where is the money going to come from when we are ALL a part of the welfare state?

Yeah, and with the mass migration of stupid NYers to places like NC its only a matter of time before those states are destroyed by backwards liberal politics as well. Just look at the results of the past election. If we know anything its that history repeats itself.

I love how New York State is operating in fantasy land.

They recently went to the federal government and asked for $7 billion dollars to bail them out and cure the gigantic budget deficits they have been running for years because of their ridiculous, overpriced, democratic, pseduo-socialist government structure.

You would think that a state asking for $7 billion dollars in federal money would make an effort to REDUCE spending -- but not New York! Amazingly, the newly proposed budget represents a 1.5 percent INCREASE in spending without substantial revenues to make up the difference (or the outstanding gap). How does this make sense?

Well, when NY and the other blue states heading towards bankruptcy can expect a bailout from everyone's favorite president-elect, why curtail spending? We'll just dump the costs on the more efficient states who have been conservative with their spending. Makes a ton of sense, right?

At least we can all be comforted that we've now elected the same morons who have destroyed NY to the federal government. Who's going to bail out America when it goes bust?

Well --- if you voted for Obama b\c you wanted his "valuable" health care program you would be stupid. His health care plan will cost you more than buying a health care plan costs you today. It may not be in the form of a direct 'Bill' -- it will instead be in the form of a) much higher taxes b) a weakened economy and c) inflation. Sounds like a great deal to me!