Cuomo's Bribing Capitalists. Again.

Governor “Status” Cuomo is extending his job bribing tendency to the southern tier counties. His goal is to use $20 million in taxpayer dollars as a bribe to bring green energy jobs to Western and Central NY counties.

Much like 43 North - this is a contest to have green energy producers compete for money from NYS taxpayers to fund their start-up and create jobs this region.

To be clear, as a socialist I support green energy. Anything we can do to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels is great. Anything we can do to – great. I'm all for it.

Why are we fighting to bring capitalists to NY to create jobs when we have colleges that are starving for funds that are doing the research, manufacturing plants that are sitting idle, and workers that need jobs? Many college educated students are leaving NY for “greener pastures' because they don't think the jobs are here.

And Cuomo is proposing one of the great bourgeois-socialist ideas – if we pay for them to relocate here, they'll create jobs for us and everything will be good. It's abbreviated b-s for a reason because it never works. It is also called a public-private partnership. The public foots the bill and the private sector gets all the profits.

Better yet – Use the colleges as the think tanks, refurbish the closed factories to manufacture what the colleges design, and let the workers form cooperatives, which will keep the profits here in NY and help create more jobs, quicker, and even pay the money back.

Instead, Cuomo is holding his private party and the public gets stuck with the bill.

It would be nice if we did get something green out of it.

If the 43 North is any measure of success, I'm not too confident.