Quoted from 1251

when ge lost all those jobs, the union was one of the primary factors..........................if you were there then you know the truth

I have a VERY good history from the mouths of the elders....and YES, the union did 'F' it up.....there were threats of house's being burned
money for votes, money in trunks of police cars etc etc........

some REAL LIFE hollywood stories.....

not to mention the lack of productivity due to the change from piece work over to a quota based system............................................

Quoted from benny salami

The City is bankrupt because of DVR's morons. "Improved" bus station for the 10 bus passengers a day. Lower State Street is a total knock down zone. Now even the Model Trains store is vacant...  

The owner of the model train store passed away last year. His name was Robert Golden.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The negative posts are just "sour grapes" and ignorant rantings made by Republicans who ran the city and county into the ground ---- and are now jealous that Democrats are turning things around and making Schenectady County a 21st Century RENAISSANCE community.

You are an idiot.

Downtown Schenectady has been in perpetual renovation since the 70s. Businesses got tax exemptions while homeowners paid for their government services. Had the city offered the entire downtown district to private citizens with tax exempt status for a period of time, there would be a much larger revenue stream. Homeowners should not be financing corporate welfare renovations. That tax money difference, should have come from the other businesses that stand to gain from the downtown renovations.

Forty years and downtown still sucks and is not a safe place to conduct business.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The FACT is that the high taxes, crumbling infrastructure and other problems are a DIRECT RESULT of ...  

Crumbling infrastructure? Corporate welfare isn't infrastructure repair.

If commercial properties were in disrepair, they should have been targeted in zero tolerance code sweeps and forced top rebuild or lose the properties, when they can't afford it.

Those properties should have been demolished and sold.

Using homeowner funding to perpetually renovate downtown is theft.

Republicans, Democrats, who cares? Theft is theft.

I really wouldn't even mind if taxes were this high because they used homeowner funding to help the homeowners who's infrastructures are crumbling. Instead they continually target homeowners to seek new properties to give to their corporate masters.

As far as I am concerned, the Corporate welfare recipients that were given breaks should now be subject to a homeowner bailout payback tax. This should also be added to the terms of any future corporate tax breaks or funding that the metroplex welfare commission dishes out.

Corporate welfare funded by hardworking homeowners is exactly what the occupy wall st crowd is talking about.

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Corporate welfare funded by hardworking homeowners is exactly what the occupy wall st crowd is talking about.

The corporate bankers that control the U.S. political system are always flush with Federal Reserve notes that can be printed at a moments notice.  The corporate banks and international corporations will always have control as long as our nation accepts a fiat paper currency controlled by an independent bank.  The occupy movement thinks that higher taxes and regulation on "the rich" will solve the problem.  That is why people like Buffett push the "tax the rich" narrative.  The rich would rather give up a little in taxes, than lose the first lending status at the corporate banks.  They understand that any tax levied on "the rich" will be subsidized by cheap loans through the banks, which equals inflation on everybody else.

Allow competing currency against the Federal Reserve Note and you will begin to see corporate bankers start losing power.  Until that happens, the "rich"(Goldman Sachs) will remain in control of the government.

they won't be printing for long.....it WILL become quota based value and ratings.......cashless....no one will even be able to do the math(or lack there of)