A Clean Financial State for the State of Long Island

As we begin the process of exploring the possibility of taking the many arduous efforts that will be needed to form Long Island - 51st State we need to look into the process of being able to disavow all debts incurred on our behalf by the States of New York and New Jersey. An example would be the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey. This is one of many government agencies formed in the last century that is heavily in debt, and this is only the beginning. There are tons of other debts that would be our responsibility upon severing from New York City, New York State and joint agreements with the State of New Jersey. It IS a financial nightmare!!! I hope we can attract people to our cause who are subject matter experts in municipal and government finance. We need to have a strategy worked out ahead of time so that our grandchildren are not crushed by this overwhelming debt load.

LONG ISLAND - The 21st Century State

States do have some powers and the State of Long Island should be very diligent in asserting its powers as a State. The federal government has become too large, too intrusive, to inefficient and too expensive. The other 50 States have become mired in bureaucracy, much of which was developed between 1900 and 1960. That was a LONG time ago. The State of Long Island should insist that we are the first new US State of the 21st Century and use "best practices" from many sectors to create our new state. We can become the most modern, well organized, most flexible state in the Union. We can really create ways for our citizens and businesses to have their needs met. Personally, I prefer a much more libertarian approach. Let the State of Long Island facilitate processes for people and business taking care of themselves.

Perhaps our State Slogan should be:

LONG ISLAND - The 21st Century State

51 Star US Flag - Finally

Here is an image of a 51 star US Flag.

The Important Things

A government should provide the basic needs to keep it's taxpayers happy. It should also fund programs that will benefit and make their citizens stronger throughout the future. Money should be put into kids through different ways, there should be money put into after-school programs and schools. Schools should not be the ones to suffer because they provide kids with future and they will represent their state. More money should be put into college educations as well, because when the clamp with budgets start the future college students feel the pinch the most. Most 18 year olds don't have $30,000 or the time to make that much. This is what you need for most private schools now and federal aid is limited. If your in the middle-class college is basically out of the picture for you if your parents fiscal status is not well. There are families who make to much on the books but really have no money at all and the kids get hurt the most. The government assumes that they can afford their kids education with their savings but they have none. This leaves so many kids with a less that great education because they simply just can afford to go to the best possible school for them which is unfair. So many great minds are being thrown away because their families don't have the money to help them go to college. This should be changed if Long Island becomes a state. Long Island should focus on itself and the future of it's residents. It should develop programs that would allow kids to go to college much easier while not putting the state in debt. This needs to be done but done right or the state will just become how New York is now.

The New York State Budget Passed! Or not?

Well the budget finally passed! Actually the correct budget didn't pass due to an "administrative" issue. That's a shame because it only makes this whole ordeal look worse. New York has been tripping over itself as it rushes to finally pass the delayed budget. It's sad because Long Island can simply do better than New York because we are an already developed government that does not make nearly as many mistakes as Albany does. We foot the bill for everything but we are the last to get compensated for it. We are just used and mainly left in the dark as battles go on in Albany. We should be looking to the future and if New York cannot fix it's fiscal problems and it's neglect of Long Island we should step up the movement to become a state.




Here is the link with the story
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=82499&catid=13

New York's Budget Greatness

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/nyregion/23suny.html

We are now in late July and has anyone noticed how New York has passed the budget? Well it hasn't and it was supposed to be done April 1st. It's a shame to be the support of the state to watch it waste away money putting itself into horrendous debt. Now the New York State government is now looking into trimming the budget by essentially getting rid of the SUNY program. The schools wont be gone but the prices will be a lot different. Many residents of Long Island rely on the SUNY program because their parents and themselves simply cannot afford the absurd expenses of government.

They should be looking into supporting SUNY and programs that benefit kids. Kids should be given the most attention because they are the future of the state and the country. Money should be taken out of unsuccessful and wasteful programs. We should be paperless on all of our things now since it creates confusion and wastes money. We should get rid of systems that are underused such as buses or have ways of improving them. Long Island should be fighting to keep it a place to be livable for the future. As prices go up here more people leave and eventually businesses leave. As they find better places to go Long Island residents lose their homes and jobs which hurts us overall.

We Now Have Two Admins/Authors

It is such a privilege to have Tim Foley as a co-author and co-administrator of the Long Island 51st State blog. I trust that Tim will bring much needed energy to this blog. I truly hope that this space become an active, vibrant collaborative space to take the Long Island Statehood movement to the next level.