"There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.

He found a crooked billion upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house."
-- James Orchard Halliwell, 1842


Buffalo-ing Off to Shuffle Low

After Rep. Loose Cannon Donkey-Chompers cooked their Amazon golden goose, and as wealthy New Yorkers continue to flee the state, Crooked Coumo just got more bad news. Jazz Shaw:

"Three-quarters of the Buffalo Billion ($750 million) went to the solar panel company, formerly known as Solar City before Tesla absorbed it. The rest of the billion hasn’t produced much either, but this investment was the centerpiece of the effort. After years of work, a grand total of 700 jobs were created and many of those may be disappearing if the company seriously tanks. So the taxpayers wound up paying more than a million dollars each for some engineering and manufacturing jobs that may not last out the year.

This wasn’t just a case of poor planning or bad luck, by the way. We’ve discussed the cloud of corruption which has surrounded the Buffalo Billion from the beginning. Multiple people have now gone to jail and others are awaiting trial because so much of the money was steered to politically well-connected allies of the Governor while providing little to nothing in return. The entire thing has long since begun to look more like an organized crime racket more than any sort of economic stimulus program."...….

Statists want to run everything, but they they can't even run the State.