2276 - I just don't get it.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

When the current governor of New York took office, he noted that the real estate situation in the Albany area was terrible, not so much foreclosures as that nothing was selling. Nobody was buying houses. Nobody could sell a house. He said somebody should do something about that. So he fired 3,000+ state government workers.

I don't understand. Good luck with that relocation, folks.

Meanwhile, in Saratoga, Marylou Whitney has canceled her annual ball celebrating the opening of the racing season. The ball is huge, themed, enormously extravagant. Costumed invited guests are inside, but outside, the masses, anybody who shows up, are also fed and entertained. It's the biggest thing in Saratoga, I guess. She can afford it.

She and her husband have decided that the ball is "inappropriate" in this economy.

Inappropriate? What about the local businesses that depend on the ball to make their nut every year? How many jobs will this move cost?

In this economy, spending, if you have the money, is the most appropriate thing to do! Keeping money out of circulation is the absolute worst thing.

I don't understand.
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