CaptainPsyko posted:

No. Pretend that somehow that disaster is somehow worse than the other disaster that’s coming down the pipe because somehow the devil that is closer to us is magically worse.

I mean, nihilism is cool and all, but let’s not pretend it also isn’t useless and obnoxious.

CaptainPsyko posted:

No. Pretend that somehow that disaster is somehow worse than the other disaster that’s coming down the pipe because somehow the devil that is closer to us is magically worse.

I mean, nihilism is cool and all, but let’s not pretend it also isn’t useless and obnoxious.

In Training posted:

sliwa can even outflank adams on the left on some poo poo, he's talked about UBI for families while adams only offers more eitc expansion. its gonna be a weird election.

Real hurthling! posted:

the feline or the blue line

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Crusader posted:

https://twitter.com/bern_hogan/status/1419625291647959041

kitten emergency posted:

shocked pikachu face dot jpeg

i wonder if cuomo is on his anti pot kick because he still has national political aspirations, or if he’s just an rear end in a top hat

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In 2000, the state began a courtship with IBM that would end up costing it hundreds of millions of dollars. In the 1980s and early 1990s, IBM had been one of the largest private employers in the Hudson Valley and played a central role in the economy. But in 1993, the company began to undertake historic layoffs in response to financial troubles, beginning in upstate New York and including 4,000 layoffs at a chip manufacturing plant in East Fishkill.

In an attempt to revive IBM’s role in the local economy, New York economic development authorities awarded the company $659 million in subsidies to build a new facility in East Fishkill and create 1,000 jobs. But in order to keep the jobs, the state had to continue subsidizing the facility. In addition to some smaller property tax abatements, in 2008 the state awarded IBM $140 million to create 1,000 jobs at its manufacturing plant in East Fishkill. When the financial crisis hit, New York paid the company an additional $45 million to avoid layoffs — but the firm laid off 900 workers anyway.

During the same decade, the state was making deals with GlobalFoundries. In 2006, New York state awarded GlobalFoundries one of the most generous local incentive deals in United States history — ultimately totaling $1.4 billion, including a $665 million cash grant — to build a facility in Malta and create 1,465 promised jobs, at a cost of $1 million per job. GlobalFoundries didn’t begin construction on the project until 2009. In the first decade of operation, the company created about double that number of jobs, while bringing in an additional $967 million in subsidies. But in 2018, GlobalFoundries laid off 424 employees in Malta as part of a worldwide restructuring.

GlobalFoundries bought the East Fishkill plant from IBM in 2014, and within a few years began shedding jobs. In 2017, GlobalFoundries began cutting East Fishkill’s workforce through voluntary buyouts, followed by layoffs in 2018. Finally, in 2019, GlobalFoundries sold the plant to a different chip company, which would receive up to $40 million in state subsidies if it retained nearly 1,000 jobs and invested in the facility over the next decade.

Soon, that plant shuttered too, and earlier this year the site was approved to become an Amazon warehouse. Amazon received over $14 million in property tax abatements to create at least 500 full-time jobs, and more part-time jobs.

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“Ultimately the failure of the approach of the US government to date has been that it’s almost been strictly supply side driven,” said Hassan Khan, a tech procurement expert.

The supply side approach often works only as a short term measure, Khan argued. “With supply-side approaches… you might just pump a ton of money into building a factory, and it operates for a few years,” he said. “But if they can’t ever become economically competitive without tax breaks, either the tax breaks or subsidies continue indefinitely, or they close up shop and leave.”

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Progressives say the solution is for the government to ramp up its own purchases of semiconductors, giving manufacturers certainty that there will be a market for their product. Earlier this year, the progressive think tank Data for Progress issued a policy brief laying out options for public sector semiconductor procurement, including public broadband and administrative agency information system upgrades.

haveblue posted:

So what progressive goal do we get now to make this go away

VideoKid posted:

what are the odds that Cuomo resigns?

VideoKid posted:

what are the odds that Cuomo resigns?

VideoKid posted:

what are the odds that Cuomo resigns?

haveblue posted:

zero. he's learned that if you stay obstinate longer than they stay outraged, you win

haveblue posted:

zero. he's learned that if you stay obstinate longer than they stay outraged, you win

In Training posted:

letitia james just announced Cuomo's investigation results. he is indeed, a serially sexual harasser, in violation of federal law. get his rear end!!!

lumpentroll posted:

wasn't the reason they gave for not impeaching him already that they didn't want to need republican votes

In Training posted:

0%, the state assemblky needs to get off their rear end and impeach him, otherwise he'll just ride out the rest of his term.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/J__Velasquez/status/1422591374323507204

Seems like they're getting ready for it! I guess we'll find out if Fahy kept banging the gavel every 3 days to keep them in pro forma session, because if she didn't you bet Cuomo will use that to claim that the meeting is against procedure.

In Training posted:

Gunshow Poophole posted:

wouldn't it also be proper to bring criminal charges

i don't know about statutes of limitation or wahtever

Matt Zerella posted:

https://twitter.com/GarbageApe/status/1422609562293702658