Comments on: Gov. voices continued frustration with lawmakers over budget deficit

By: H. Mann

H. Mann — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:32:06 +0000

20% of these ineffectual, overpaid teachers need to be fired. No one would notice.

By: Dai

Dai — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:14:11 +0000

Governor Patterson hasn’t delivered anything but DOOM AND GLOOM since occupying office. New Yorker’s are sick of the massive cuts because of his inability to run the state efficiently. Many New Yorkers are hoping that Cuomo will take office. Patterson’s proposed cuts in Health Care and Education are the two areas where there should be no cuts at all. Threatening to make cuts in these areas will only hurt an already crippled school system and will set hospitals back to when they were severely understaffed and overcrowded tantamount to a welfare office. We need to stay on the path to better education for our children which means small classes, qualified teachers with Master’s Degrees, afterschool reading and related academic programs for children and related support for special need children. If not, we will lose the recent gains schools have made in the past few years. With an already high shortage in nursing, to make additional cuts will only put patient’s lives at risk and open the door for a rise in medical and hospital related errors/deaths. When unavoidable mistakes are made in the medical field, people’s lives are put at risk. When you continue to year after year make cuts in Education you wipe out the positive gains that’ve been made in recent years. There are so many other areas that can be looked into in order to fill the budget gap.

By: Sorrell

Sorrell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:51:21 +0000

Governor Patterson is not qualified to run NYS. Cuts in Health care and Education should not be made. Health care because people’s lives are at risk when you have understaffing at hospitals. Education because, there is already a teacher shortage, classses that were supposed to be reduced are not overfilled to capacity because of the cuts and once again the children are not getting the individualized help they need. Thus we go back to square one. Qualified teachers graduating with Master’s Degrees are unable to find jobs in New York, so now what happens from here. This is a disgrace, a total disaster and should never be. For Governor Patterson to cut health care, the one area where PResident Obama is trying to improve, for Patterson to cut Education, the other area that Obama wants to improve. Cuts proposed by Governor Patterson will set us back another 10 yrs. There are other ways and means to close the budget deficit, its called being creative and coming up with alternatives. If this is the best that Patterson can do for New Yorkers, then he is not fit to be Governor.