MarkyMannn
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Right now I'm in a stall in the Erie County building.................can someone spare a square?????????
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When there's in imbalance of incoming and outgoing tax revenues there's bound to be a real problem. The idiots running WNY have been sticking their heads in the sand for 30+ years.
In WNY, the vast majority of people fall into these main categories:
1. Those who receive their paychecks from government (educators, municipal, law enforcement, parks, DOT, etc)
2. Low wage earners (under $10/hour)
3. Sustained though goverment subsidized entitlement programs (welfare, SSI, food stamps, etc)
4. retirees (often living off savings and SS and many contributing to the economies of Florida or Arizona for half the year)
There are, of course, business owners, utility workers, professionals, and others, but there's a huge imbalance in comparison to the group mentioned above.
A healthy economic environment has a much stronger middle class that includes manufacturing, multiple services, retail, and other industries.
The Buffalo area has no Fortune 500 companies or other large corporations with headquarters based in WNY that can bring money in from around the country.
Buffalo is one of the few metro areas that has the worst of both worlds - high taxes and low wages. A deadly combination if ever there was one.
A huge number of young people entering the work force leave WNY when they hear of the opportunity and wages that can found if they leave for Flroida, Georgia, Carolinas, etc.
Do the math. Who's gonna be left to pay the freight?
Just keep going with high taxes and increased union demands. Been working great.
Great post DML. What are loking at next year for a property tax increase? I'm hearing 40%. And the civil service and teacher unions don't get it yet. They are still looking to bleed the area to get whatever they can. No view of the future, just get my $$$ now. Some local teachers are having "informational pickets" right now. Their signs say "I'm under paid and deserve more" BS!!!!! Phil Rumore of the Buffalo Teachers is the worst thing to happen to this area. The guy gives nothing for education quality, just pay me more. Of course if I was a teacher I would probably love the guy.
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I get that eBay "suspension" email every day. Geez back off already with that. What am I going to get that every day for the rest of my life? At the very least, they could do a more professional presentation, what with broken English, bad grammar, mis-spellings, etc.......
Another one I've gotten 2-3 times. The winning bidder I'm told backs out, and as a losing bidder I'm obligated to be the winner at my last bid amount. So if I will just forward that amount via Western Union to them................yeah right!!!!!!!!!
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Next time you go to a game go to Southwestern & California. Check out the 2 sitting in their car at that corner sucking down coffee. They never move out of the car
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At our local school, teacher's salaries (including a raise) are placed on the austerity budget, while transportation of elementary school children was supplemental.
So 5 year olds within one mile of the school should walk to kindergarten? The district just keeps having additional votes, moving a few numbers around, until panicky parents finally pass the BS budget.
I don't know where you are, but every school district does that. It's a joke. Don't let me have my way and your kids can walk to school forever. Nice tactic
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Re-newed for sec 204. One more over and I would have been in the Rockpile and saved $100/seat. I don't know why I didn't, but I like where I'm at too
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I think physically he has the tools to be really good, but needs to improve his football smarts and experience. I think the guy has too much upside though not to have him on the field. Tight end or third tackle?
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My first job was pushing carts for a supermarket. I'll be damned if I'm going to do it 30 years later cause some store is trying to save $$$ by cutting cart pushers.
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Man I love this topic!!! Nothing gets my blood pressure up more. What I see:
1) time for the county to punish the taxpayers. Parks, when closed, it was still OK to go in. Now they will charge you with tresspassing. Guess that is why we need all those Sheriff Deputies
2) DMV drops Saturday and night hours to inconvenient you more. How about working noon-9 Tuesday-Friday and all day Saturday. Business does it
3) Sheriff Galivan cannot cut his budget at all and do with less. Meanwhile, 1000 deputies and about a third make $100,000+. At the Ralph, how many even get out of their cars?
4) how much county/town tax money is being spent on the Cheektowaga deer lady? A harmless old lady is escorted out of the park by town police the other day for trying to assist an injured deer from a poacher. Her half dozen apples she feeds them a day could hurt their health. With police, DEC, park workers, courts, prison, I bet we spent $500,000 to stop a woman from giving deer apples. Meanwhile, in Amherst, hundreds of deer die annually from cars. It's nuts!!!
5) County labor leader still doesn't get it. Borgalski. Won't budge on any givebacks. These guys work a 7 hour day, and less in the summer. Go to 8 hours and a 10% pay cut. Like it or quit
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My understanding is that the Buff news presses were down and they were short 80,000 papers. Hope they donate $80,000 to make up for the shortfall of papers
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There's that comment in there where Sly says he has 884 weekends left in his life. There's a wake-up call for all of us. If I go at the same age my dad went I've got 1,040 left. They really will go by fast. And here I was planning on stayng home tonight. BS!!! Goin' out and having fun!!!!
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Maybe Bain Capital Partners LLC could also buy Erie County Government and try running that too
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I seem to remember that Big Ted reworked his contract so as to provide $$$ and cap space to keep Pat Williams. The 2 were very tight friends at the time
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I have been undergoing alot of harrassement lately. This lady/my boss is a totally annoying beeotch.
She protects certain workers that dont live up to there job tasks. An treats me like crap. Yet I do my job plus theirs.
Friday her & I had a shouting match in the hall way. There is a new guy that gets away with everything. Lately part of his job has been dumped on me. Because of this my own work is getting backed up. It came to the point were she pulled me in the office managers office. I spoke up after she left. Said that my coworkers and I are not operating as a team.
Oh man do I need to quit.
I've been around a long time and can honestly say solutions to problems like that are hard to come by. Business is spontaneous and evolving though. Like the weather, don't like it now, wait awhile. Re-organizations always happen, and maybe a year or 2 from now, things will be different. That time can be tough waiting for it to pass.
You mention the new guy, if she hired him, to criticize him is criticizing her. And for her to come down on this guy would be for here to admit her own mistake, and that may not happen. I've seen mgr's who dislike everyone in a dept who they didn't hire. Last thing, I've seen people have parts of their job they don't want to do, intentionally screw it up, and then watch it come to me. So, I've got more to do, and their jobs are cake!
That's why they call it WORK!!!
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That's how I see him, average, mediocre. Figure there are 32 starting LT's in the league, he is in the middle of the pack. And has problems staying on the field, which won't get better with age.
I believe Miami was like $17 mil over, but has already cleared $15 with some releases, like Fiedler. But the article I read on that made it seem as though that was just salaries. Of course there is always the accelerated cap hit
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OK, as a Nascar and local track fan, let me say the D 500 SUCKED!!!! 4 hours of watching 40+ cars go round the track in single file. The only lead changes were the result of pit stops. The only real action was the last 10-15 laps. Nascar has ruined restrictor plate racing in my opinion with all its rule changes to break up the packs. The packs was what made RP racing the best
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To the few remaining hockey fans after this past week....If the owners want to take a stand and improve league finances, why not insist on getting rid of guaranteed salaries. The only thing this promotes is complacency. Where is the desire to play hard when you know you've got guaranteed money coming in for 3 or 4 years no matter who you play.
I'm not sure why this isn't an issue right up there with instituting a salary cap?
The best example of complaceny is Jagr. After he signed that mega Caps contract, he has done diddly. You really have wonder what was going thru that owner's head when he signed that one
House hunting advice
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Fixer-upper.............especially if your wife, like mine, would want to change the house to their style and taste. You're going to be working on it either way, so you may as well take the cheaper deal