Trying to Buy Rochester

I normally focus on Western NY but I am going to venture up to Rochester to show how Governor “Status” Cuomo is basically buying the next election with our tax dollars.

We are all familiar with the “Buffalo Billion” - NYS will give 10 year tax breaks and basically foot the bill for companies to relocate to WNY. There's the Riverbend Project and the work down in Dunkirk.

Now it is being expanded to Rochester.  If it works well here, why not duplicate it?  Elections are expensive to buy.

Rochester is another city that was hit by the deindustrialization of the 1970's on that wiped out the manufacturing base in the Northeast. While Buffalo was heavy on steel and automotive work, Rochester was heavy on optics and photography. After all , Rochester was the home to Kodak. (It sill is, but Kodak has shut down and demolished most of its operations in the area.)

So “Status” Cuomo is kicking in over $250 million of our taxes to bring two companies to Rochester that will employ in the realm of 800+ jobs in the next five years at around $80,000 a year (salary). I imagine there are the usual benefits added to that as well.  They will be focusing on photonics - power supplies and lighting.

And those jobs will be for college graduates. Not high school graduates. Perhaps some Associates degrees or advanced training. I imagine more the Bachelor's degrees and higher.

This means that the average unemployed person in Rochester has no chance of getting a good paying job in any of the firms that “Status” Cuomo is bribing to come to NY. More bourgeois socialism. We pay the tab, the 1% get the profits.

And Rochester has a large minority population with similar problems as Buffalo has.

From what I have been told by teachers that work in Rochester, they are basically Buffalo's twin brother.

And “Status” Cuomo is using the same bourgeois socialism snow job to bring jobs there and get us to think that we are getting something out of this other than having our wallets picked clean.

There is little to no chance that the poor, unemployed, and poorly educated are going to get jobs with these firms. So why is everyone making such a big deal about what is happening.

It's all part of the deception. Capitalism, in order to survive, needs to offer people hope that things will get better for them. These jobs coming to the area are like the carrot on a stick that the farmer uses to cajole the horse to pull the cart forward. The horse, thinking it will get the carrot, moves forwards and, in doing so, pulls the cart to wherever the farmer wants it.

It's the same thing with all this new construction and all the potential jobs. They are going to those that can afford to send their children to college. Sadly, in this area, it's not many people that can do that.

However, the media's job is to get us to believe that things are getting better.

And judging by their coverage of “Status” Cuomo's spending binge with our taxes, they are doing a good job.

It's time we blew the cover off this story and showed everyone what is really behind the curtain.