This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting
gored or their golden geese and sacred
cows from being butchered
by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.
It's a first salvo in what's expected to be a protracted budget battle as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to fulfill his pledge to make deep spending cuts — most likely
by goring the ox of some heretofore sacred
cows, including the public employee unions and education aid.