A True Story

Hi Everyone:

For those of you who do not live in New York State, you may or may not be aware of the political turmoil that is currently happening in Albany, New York (New York's state capital). After the November 08 elections, the Democrats won a slim majority in the NY Senate and had a 32 to 30 majority. Then about a month ago, there was an ambush in the NY Senate. It appears that the republican minority did not like being the minority party and losing majority control that they had held for decades. The republicans held some private meetings with at least 2 democratic State Senators and eventually got 2 democratic senators to vote on the republican side. This then turned who held the majority upside down. The republicans then held a 32 to 30 majority. Around a week later, one of the 2 democratic senators, decided to jump ship and return to the democrat side. Now that meant that the split was even at 31 to 31.

From my understanding this was all legal. Unfortunately for the people of New York State this was a disastrous occurrence. So what is the problem you may ask? Well the NYS Senate has since been fighting over who has control of the state senate. One side locking out the other and visa versa. For a month now, the state senate has not done any of the people's work since this has happened. All they have done is fight each other. It is painfully obvious that those elected senators have forgotten that they were elected to represent the people of their districts. Instead, all that is happening in Albany is fighting for control of the Senate and to hell with anything else. This bothers me and probably a lot of other NY residents to no end. But, to add insult to injury, all of those State Senators are and have been collecting their full salaries without doing any of the work that they were elected to do. Would someone please tell me what jobs are available out there that allows you to not do any of the work you are supposed to do and still get your full pay? If someone doesn't do their job in the real world, you would be terminated from that company. Unfortunately, politicians obviously feel that they are above the rest of us and they can do whatever they want to.

Sadly, NYS state senators have made it very clear that party affiliation and control is more important than the needs of the people. The NYS government has previously been called the most dysfunctional state government in the country. Go figure that they have now been able to go above and beyond that label. This is politics at its very worst. This is not politics, this is a circus without a ringleader. Politicians have again proven to me that they either do not possess common sense or refuse to use it. What a shame that supposedly intelligent people can act so stupidly!

My solution to this ongoing problem is a bit radical, but I believe that the only way to fix this is at the next election and every election after that, all of the state senators involved should be voted out of office and replaced with people who will get the job done that they were elected to do. If the new replacements don't do the job, vote them out also!

What do you think? Let me know.

Till next time.