Now That The Senate's Gone Democrat

So what might the bold bright future of New York look like now that the Senate has gone liberal? Well, maybe now we can finally overcome California - a state long dominated by the left. We might have looked to our east, to MA, but they're just not big enough to use as an example...let's see what the front-runner, CA, is up to - and c'mon Mr. Smith! Yes we can! Let's beat CA!

-- California’s state expenditures grew from $104 billion in 2003 to $145 billion in 2008.

-- California has the worst credit rating in the nation.

-- California has the fourth highest unemployment rate in the nation, 9.3 percent -- higher even than the car manufacturing state of Michigan.

-- California has the second highest home foreclosure rate.

-- California’s tax-paying middle class is leaving the state. California’s net loss last year in state-to-state migration exceeded every other state's. New York, another left-run state, was second.

-- Since 2000, California’s job growth rate -- which in the late 1970s was many times higher than the national average -- has lagged behind the national average by almost 20 percent.

-- California has lost 25 percent of its industrial work force since 2001.

Outrageous! C'mon, Democrats, you can drive more people out of NY than CA can! Yes we can! Can't we get that unemployment rate up in striking distance of CA? Why is our credit rating better than theirs?! They must be doing much more for their citizens than you slackers in Albany are. C'mon, fellas! Tax and spend our way into the promised land!

Yes we can!