Does anyone care what Paterson has to say

I received the following email from the Governor’s office in Albany. My question, does anyone really care what the Governor has to say?

Fellow New Yorker,

We are facing a fiscal emergency in New York State. When I announced my 2010-2011 Executive Budget proposal in January, we projected that our State faced a $7.4 billion budget deficit. However, the continuing effects of the Great Recession have pushed the size of the deficit to more than $9 billion today. And we face more than $60 billion in deficits over the next five years.

We must close the gap and we must do it quickly.

That means reducing spending across the board. I have put forward a proposal that includes serious cuts across every area of State government. I am proposing $500 million in cuts to State Agencies, on top of the $1.5 billion in savings we have already achieved at State Agencies over the last two years. That is a total of $2 billion in savings from State Agencies. My proposal also includes a $1.1 billion year-to-year cut to school aid, and a nearly $1 billion cut to base health care spending – because these two areas of spending make up more than 50 percent of our State’s budget.

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