THIS PIG WON'T FLY

"I have an old expression, that you can nail wings on a pig but you can't make it fly, and I'm tired of trying to make a pig fly. This political community here is so screwed up that I'm tired of it. It's just a joke."  Larry Quinn 2/4/2011

The Facts:

·         In 2008, Buffalo was second to Albany NY as top unionized city in the U.S. at 26.5%. It has probably gone up for 2010 because the denominator keeps dropping.

·         Buffalo has as many public workers in 2006 as it did in 1950, despite the fact that the city has lost half its population. (The Economist – Jan, 06 2011)

·         People in the Buffalo Niagara region tend to be lifelong New Yorkers. 82 percent of all people in the Buffalo Niagara region were born in New York. Nationally, just 59 percent of the people were born in the state where they now live. That’s an important distinction, because it means that the vast majority of the people here have known nothing other than life in New York. For them, high taxes and a government structure that heaps the state on top of counties, on top of towns and cities, on top of villages, is all they’ve known.

Remember the episode in Seinfeld when George decides to do the exact opposite of what he has been doing for years and he ends up with a job with the Yankees and a girlfriend!   To make this city fly we need to be like George -  Just do the exact opposite… what’s the worst thing that could happen???

Citizens of Buffalo...It’s hard to fall off the floor!! Now it's time for some solutions let's hear from you!!