And per NY not being fleeced, BA HA HA HA HA HA....HA!
The roads SUCK, schools suck,
The roads and the schools are okay once you get out of the urban centers and their nearby suburbs.
they over salt everything and drink the ground water,
That depends on where you are. Where I live is a watershed area where the opposite is true: They don't use enough salt. They use sand to avoid contaminating the reservoir, and only use salt on the very worst sections of road. That's one of the main reasons why studded winter tires are so popular here.
they hate the bill of rights and pass laws in the middle of the night to undermine it, yet the people are too institutionalized and timid to do anything about it, business and people are leaving in droves, they never met a tax they didn’t like, I know people paying almost the same per month in property tax as their mortgage, and their schools turn out garbage.
Again, that's an urban area attitude. Unfortunately, the Downstate legislators outnumber the rural ones because of the way seats have been apportioned since 1964, when SCOTUS ruled that the old system, which gave counties more equal representation in the State Senate, was unconstitutional.
The weather is only nice for 3-4 months, plus a little winter fun than crappy ice,
Weather is what it is. Whether people like it or not is a matter of personal opinion. I find something to like about all the seasons.
the NYSP and NYPD are two of the most corrupt departments in the US.
Personally, I think MTA is the most corrupt agency in the state (and probably the country). Even the way it was formed was illegal.
MTA was formed by way of an illegal seizure of Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority assets orchestrated by then-NYC Mayor John Lindsay and then-NYS Governor Nelson Rockefeller to divert the toll revenue of the TBTA, which was probably the only agency in the state that was solvent at the time, to fund the downstate subways and buses. They had been losing money ever since New York City deliberately forced the private operators into bankruptcy and took over the system in 1940.
That takeover, by the way, was because the City thought it would be a source of revenue. Two of the three subway operators and the many bus companies were, after all, private, profit-making companies; and the city wanted that revenue. Their first effort was to form the city-owned IND subway to compete with the privately-owned BMT and IRT in 1932, coupled with a refusal of the private companies' request for a fare increase. They deliberately forced the private companies into bankruptcy because they wanted the revenue.
The city's plan succeeded, and in 1940, the New York City Transit Authority began taking over the former BMT and IRT operations.
Predictably, due to mismanagement on a scale of which only government is capable, by 1965, the NYCTA's finances were in an even deeper hole than the trains themselves. The system was losing money at a staggering rate, despite multiple fare increases, concession income, rental income, and advertising income. The system was also in a miserable state of disrepair and had a crime rate that probably inspired more prayers than a stadium full of Pentecostal preachers. The system was beyond broke. It was irreparably and in every way broken.
Robert Moses' TBTA, on the other hand, was strong and healthy; and Lindsay and Rockefeller wanted to divert that income to fund the chronically-failing NYCTA. The problem was that the TBTA bonds specifically forbade any such diversion. However, since Governor Rockefeller's brother John headed up Chase Manhattan Bank, which held the lion's share of TBTA bonds, the illegal seizure went through anyway: And thus was formed the most unaccountable and inefficient public entity in the history of government.
The other reason why MTA was formed had more to do with Lindsay's and Rockefeller's wanting to get rid of Robert Moses than anything specifically subway-related. He wielded way too much power for either politician's liking. In fact, their mutual hatred of Robert Moses was probably the only thing that Rockefeller and Lindsay agreed on. Bailing out the subways was a convenient excuse to strip him of his agency's money and his power.
Rich
