even the fat cat rich folks canlt keep him afloat -- and he supposedly represents the everyday man? lol what a joke.. half of hull;s donations come from millionaries.. what is up witht that. mcc's donations are from the real people who want to keep the renaissance going.. go go , go go
even the fat cat rich folks canlt keep him afloat -- and he supposedly represents the everyday man? lol what a joke.. half of hull;s donations come from millionaries.. what is up witht that. mcc's donations are from the real people who want to keep the renaissance going.. go go , go go
Gary McCarthy gets his donations from the same folks who want to hold their place in line at the bank.
I have to say that the dems planned it right... Keep the electorate dumbed down and on the public teet. Give away taxpayer's money to the 'select few'. Unionize EVERY employee. ..............these are sure ways to keep the votes coming in!
Basically........everyone is on the take.........at the expense of the working class...the few that are left.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The TAXPAYER HOMEOWNERS - struggling financially - pay the PILOT. Dim wit !!!!!!!!! They get a 150% property and school tax exemption. Obviously the FACT is whatever alleged PILOT they pay is actually paid via the property and school tax exemption that is 50% MORE.
Tell me SB, what homeowners get even a full tax exemption? Even the most low income people only get a pittance 50% exemption, those with incomes of around $20,000 or less. So, explain why a for-profit business allegedly rakiing in big bucks got money to fix the place up to begin with despite having the financial ability to pay for it themelves, but the poor homeowners who are paying almost the highest taxes in the whole country, can't afford to correct the code violations because their money has gone to the rich for profit businesses downtown If these businesses are in such financial straights that they cannot pay their full property taxes, then they should raise their prices. The stsruggling homeonwers, often elderly, have no abillity to increase their income unless they get a job and after paying taxes all your life, it 's a rotten shame to expect that elderly homeonwers, not getting raises, should ever be forced to go get a job in order to pay for home repairs or to pay for taxes.
Then after these financially struggling homeowners who can't afford repairs (becuase they were robbed of their money to give to milliionaires to open downtown), then these homeonwers get financially penalized for their code violations. Then on top of that they are raped and robbed of their savings in order pay the property taxes of the millionaires downtown who in turn take the taxpayers money and give it to the socialists running the city.
And after all that, the people STILL have to leave the city to shop, and often leave the county altogether. Sad that people struggling financially have to shop elsewhere for necessities, pay the high gas prices to drive far only to have to pay Schenectady's high taxes when they do make purchases! And then, when you don't have something delivered to your home, e.g., buying a coat, say, at Penny's. the struggling homeowners are requried to report that purchase when they file state income tax so that the county get rape and rob the taxpayers even more!
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Meet the PayPal mafia An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. By Jeffrey M. O'Brien, Fortune senior editor
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(Fortune Magazine) -- A door opens, and a blond man appears in a white jacket with large buttons. "Good morning," he says. "Peter's in back. Make yourself comfortable in the dining room. I'll be serving breakfast shortly."
Holy cannoli. Peter Thiel has a butler. The 40-year-old entrepreneur runs a $3 billion hedge fund. He's the founder of a new venture capital firm that's the talk of Silicon Valley. He's got an early $500,000 stake in Facebook that's now worth about $1 billion on paper. The man has bankrolled everything from restaurants to movies and is lauded by many as some kind of free-market genius. He drives a half-million-dollar McLaren supercar. And now a butler.
Just back from a morning run, Thiel emerges into the dining room of his home in the shadow of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. Wearing a powder-blue T-shirt wet with sweat, he displays the relaxed self-confidence of Michael Corleone. Perhaps it comes with the butler. "I'm Peter," he says, extending his hand and smiling before thanking me for agreeing to such a late breakfast meeting. It's 7:30 A.M. "It was nice to sleep in."
The doorbell rings, and in walks a scruffy, sleepy-eyed Max Levchin, 32, who has trekked over from his new $5 million-plus home a few blocks away in Pacific Heights. Every garment on Levchin's unwashed body is a freebie - University of Illinois zip jacket, mismatching shorts, bright orange T-shirt with some Hebrew lettering.
The high-stakes fight for your friends Levchin runs one of the hottest companies on the web, a photo-sharing site called Slide that draws 134 million users a month. Making neither eye contact nor conversation, he presses his lips together, nods to indicate that he is, as ever, ready for business, and sits.
It's been nine years since Thiel and Levchin first dined together at Hobee's, near Stanford University. Levchin had an idea for a company, and Thiel wanted to invest. In short order Thiel joined as a co-founder, and together they set out to "create the new world currency."
Their brainchild would change the course of the Internet. They'd bring on several hundred employees to what would become PayPal. They'd sign up more than 20 million users and burn $180 million in funding before breaking even and selling out to eBay (Charts, Fortune 500) for $1.5 billion.
And then things got interesting. The eBay deal, remarkable only because it happened in the bleakness of 2002, wasn't so much an exit as an explosion. Most of PayPal's key employees left eBay, but they stayed in touch. They even have a name for themselves: the PayPal mafia. And the mafiosi have been busy.
During the past five years they've been furiously building things - investment firms, philanthropies, solar-power companies, an electric-car maker, a firm that aims to colonize Mars, and of course a slew of Internet companies. It's amazing how many hot web properties can trace their ancestries to PayPal.
Besides Facebook and Slide, there's Yelp, Digg, and YouTube. Thiel and Levchin, the don and consigliere of the mafia, figure that all told, there are dozens of enterprises worth a total of roughly $30 billion - and that value is growing rapidly, as evidenced by Thiel's good fortune with Facebook.
This group of serial entrepreneurs and investors represents a new generation of wealth and power. In some ways they're classic characters of Silicon Valley, where success and easy access to capital breed ambition and further success. It's the reason people come to the area from all over the world. But even by that standard, PayPal was a petri dish for entrepreneurs. The obvious question is, Why?
Maybe it comes back to the early hires. After their first breakfast, Thiel and Levchin began recruiting everyone they knew at their alma maters. "It basically started by hiring all these people in concentric circles," Thiel remembers. "I hired friends from Stanford, and Max brought in people from the University of Illinois."
They were looking for a specific type of candidate. They wanted competitive, well-read, multilingual individuals who, above all else, had a proficiency in math. Levchin's original idea for PayPal was to beam money between PalmPilots, but Thiel has a way of seeing the bigger picture.
A staunch libertarian, Thiel figured a web-based currency would undermine government tax structures. Getting there, however, would mean taking on established industries - commercial banking, for instance - which would require financial acumen and engineering expertise. Thiel and Levchin also wanted workaholics who were not MBAs, consultants, frat boys, or, God forbid, jocks. "This guy came in, and I asked what he liked to do for fun," Levchin recalls. "He said, 'I really enjoy playing hoops.' I said, 'We can't hire the guy. Everyone I knew in college who liked to play hoops was an idiot.'"
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I would like to see an outline of great mayor/candidate.....waiting
You don't need an outline -- just get a picture of Gary McCarthy and have it enlarged and hang it on your bedroom wall so that you will wake up every morning looking at the image of the best person to run for Mayor of Schenectady in this decade.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
You don't need an outline -- just get a picture of Gary McCarthy and have it enlarged and hang it on your bedroom wall so that you will wake up every morning looking at the image of the best person to run for Mayor of Schenectady in this decade.
oh....why dont I just use your copy....oh wait....it's smeared...never mind....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The TAXPAYER HOMEOWNERS - struggling financially - pay the PILOT. Dim wit !!!!!!!!! They get a 150% property and school tax exemption. Obviously the FACT is whatever alleged PILOT they pay is actually paid via the property and school tax exemption that is 50% MORE.
Tell me SB, what homeowners get even a full tax exemption? Even the most low income people only get a pittance 50% exemption, those with incomes of around $20,000 or less. So, explain why a for-profit business allegedly rakiing in big bucks got money to fix the place up to begin with despite having the financial ability to pay for it themelves, but the poor homeowners who are paying almost the highest taxes in the whole country, can't afford to correct the code violations because their money has gone to the rich for profit businesses downtown If these businesses are in such financial straights that they cannot pay their full property taxes, then they should raise their prices. The stsruggling homeonwers, often elderly, have no abillity to increase their income unless they get a job and after paying taxes all your life, it 's a rotten shame to expect that elderly homeonwers, not getting raises, should ever be forced to go get a job in order to pay for home repairs or to pay for taxes.
Then after these financially struggling homeowners who can't afford repairs (becuase they were robbed of their money to give to milliionaires to open downtown), then these homeonwers get financially penalized for their code violations. Then on top of that they are raped and robbed of their savings in order pay the property taxes of the millionaires downtown who in turn take the taxpayers money and give it to the socialists running the city.
And after all that, the people STILL have to leave the city to shop, and often leave the county altogether. Sad that people struggling financially have to shop elsewhere for necessities, pay the high gas prices to drive far only to have to pay Schenectady's high taxes when they do make purchases! And then, when you don't have something delivered to your home, e.g., buying a coat, say, at Penny's. the struggling homeowners are requried to report that purchase when they file state income tax so that the county get rape and rob the taxpayers even more!
And let's not forget Marecellas who threatened to leave the 2nd hamilton hill in search of another municipality. How much in taxes do they pay? How much does Villa Italia pay?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
what u continually fail to see is that two years ago [or so] , there was no bombers there. no one was in that building, no one was paying taxes... wait,e excuse me, cammarto was paying some taxes, but basically it was an empty building. now, there are people coming in an spending money -- so between the pilot and sales tax generation, bombers in pumping more into the area than the previous owner.
as for your other statements, no comment.
your struggling homeowner rant is wearing thin.. it is bad all over, not just here, so if u want change,,, figure out a way to generate revenue not connected to property.
until u find that solution, there will be this burden
what u continually fail to see is that two years ago [or so] , there was no bombers there. no one was in that building, no one was paying taxes... wait,e excuse me, cammarto was paying some taxes, but basically it was an empty building. now, there are people coming in an spending money -- so between the pilot and sales tax generation, bombers in pumping more into the area than the previous owner.
What you fail to see is Parisi's Steakhouse closing, Cornell's under water needing rescuing, the Fireside closing. But of course opening these newly government subsidized gin mills had no effect on these other businesses going outof business. By the government subsidizing competition within an industry, they essentially stole customer from other established businesses. It's criminal IMO.
And yet another one who refuses to listen to the taxpaying homeowners!!
IT IS TIME TO OCCUPY SCHENECTADY FOLKS!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
what u continually fail to see is that two years ago [or so] , there was no bombers there. no one was in that building, no one was paying taxes... wait,e excuse me, cammarto was paying some taxes, but basically it was an empty building.
Let's take Glens Falls for example, companies left in the 80's leaving an empty Downtown area for years. Little by little restaurants came in, then a theater (NOT given $10 million dollar gov't handouts), then little retail shops opened and the diehard mom and pops (Scoville Jewelers) stayed there through thick and thin (kinda like Rudnicks).
The HUGE difference is, Glens Falls was an area people WANTED to come to. Schenectady on the other hand NO ONE wanted to come in because the neighborhoods are in shambles and the schools are worse. More importantly, Glens Falls took its time, slowly correcting the taxbase and not giving property away (BTW "in lieu of" means instead). Metroplex made horribly bad PILOT deals which in turn create a triple tax burden for all the homeowners.
You can't bribe businesses into a dying City. You have to revitalize the neighborhoods (i.e. make them safer, a complete audit of the DSS, police foot patrols, more security camera) and strengthen the school system (maybe the City should start partnering...if Hull was Mayor that might be an AWESOME idea).
Fact is Proctors, a movie theater, a hair school and a bunch of bars are not the holy grail of City revitalization - safe neighborhoods and a good school system are. The plex failed in its mission and they spent too much on too little too fast. It can't soon correct itself.
Whomever is elected, McCarthy or Hull, they have to stop this trainwreck before the plex destroys the entire taxbase in the City.
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