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[Andrew Vida]

Larry and Pat Brown wrote:
> I'm part of the people who wish we weren't part of NYC.

	NYC politics sucks and has sucked since I was a little kid, you know... 
back before christ...  A liberal craphole that rewards sleaze and sloth 
and strikes against all who think with good force and work hard.  Were I 
in SI. I'd move to secede.

	There's a lot to recommend NYC, but there's also a lot that doesn't. 
Unless I had a ten-figure bankroll and could live atop a lofty tower on 
Sutton Place, I don't think I'd go back to live there.  But it's still a 
good place to visit; and work if you're a contractor, but if you're W-2 
you get waxed a third time for the extortionate city taxes.  It's 
ridiculous.

 > All of the taxes
> less of the services. We tried to succeed once but the state wouldn't 
> allow it. I felt we should have tried to leave on a federal level maybe 
> we could have been a state.

	What if all the people on SI just said "screw you" and refused to 
comply as a borough of the City?  What could anyone do?  Arrest the 
entire borough?  There has to be at least half a million residents on 
the Island.  There's not enough jail space across the entire nation to 
lock them all up.

> They're trying to make it look just like Queens, in a short time the 
> only green that will be left is park land and the politicians want to 
> give that to their builder friends. :-(

	It already does and has for at least 10 to 20 years.  It was like that 
when I was trying to get a teaching position at New Dorp.  That one big 
area of wood has been reduced in size, has it not?  And when they close 
Fresh Kills, you know they're going to put a hundred thousand low cost 
condos on at least part of it.