Submitted by Mike, Oct 17, 2007 11:46

So, applications on a national level are expected to go up, and yet applications in the Vampire State are expected to go down. I am shocked that not one of the "experts" cited in this article said anything about the mass exodus of families out of upstate New York to places like Charlotte, Atlanta, Florida and the Southwest. My head almost blasted off my body like a rocket when the demopgraphics expert from Cornell in upstate Ithaca explained this as the baby bust echo effect. Whatever that is. This man is embedded triangularly between three of the worst economies in the United States - Binghamton, Elmira and Syracuse! By the way, the personal computer, flight simulators, modern air conditioning and the protective skin if the space shuttle were all invented in this now depressed triangle of upstate New York. Of course, even downstate families are being squeezed and pinched to no end by the most dsyfunctional and spendthrift legislature. In fact, NYC residents are the highest taxed people in the USA. New Yorkers leave the city to go Connecticut for tax relief! How many well-to-do families do we all know who chose SUNY or CUNY for college knowing that the real financial burden is in grad-school. And yet none of the downstate commentators in this article mention the NYS economy in their surely well-rounded analysis. We've come a long way since Plunkitt of Tammany Hall called NYC a big fat goose that upstate "Hayseed" Republican legislators have to carve up and control. In reality, for years the downstate dominated legislature has thought it could ignore the economic peril of upstate. The chickens are coming home to roost. The bottom line is that NYS is the worst state to start or expand a business in. Families need businesses- NOT the govenment- to support their kids and send them off to college. Why don't our decision-makers, many of whom are cited in this article, mention that? They didn't mention the economy because no matter how well meaning they might be, they simply don't know anything about it. NYC is less and less 'a pie for the hayseeds.' I should now, I am one. And in a short time I hope to be living in the booming tax-friendly Southwest.

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