(Audiobook) The Politics of Decline by Jay Gallagher

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The Politics of Decline
by Jay Gallagher

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• Language: english
• Author: Jay Gallagher
• ISBN: 9780878755523 (0878755527)
• Format: paperback, 360 pages
• Release date: November 1, 2005
• Publisher: Whitston Publishing Company

About The Book

Why is New York reeling while the Sun Belt is thriving? Why is it so expensive to do business in New York? How can a state as blessed as New York with natural resources and smart, hard-working people be such an economic laggard? Why hasn’t our state government done something about it? In this provocative new book, veteran journalist Jay Gallagher tackles these questions, and comes up with answers — as well as solutions. The bottom line, he argues, is that most citizens have been paying so little attention to what happens in their state Capitol that decisions made there are hurting them. They’re losing out to special interests like pharmaceutical companies, lawyers and labor unions that know how to game the system. The result: a state that most big companies shun when looking to expand and where small companies have trouble gaining a foothold; where taxes are the highest in the country; and where young people are fleeting in record numbers. New York, once known as the Empire State for its ability to create wealth, has created jobs at a slower rate than any other state for 40 years, thanks in part to a Legislature that last year was labeled the nation’s most dysfunctional by a respected think tank. Gallagher not only brings the reader inside state government with some behind-the-scenes glimpses of how the system operates, he also tells the story through the eyes of those affected — from displaced workers in the Southern Tier to harried families in the St. Lawrence Valley, to laid-off Kodak workers in Rochester. From Medicaid recipients in Spanish Harlem to school children in the Bronx to taxpayers in Westchester County. Is New York unique? Probably not. This tale is also meant as awarning to citizens in the rest of the country who are tempted to let down their guard. To borrow from Frank Sinatra, if it happened here, it can happen anywhere.

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