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Gov. Hochul’s ‘crazy like a fox’
plan to encumber New York with more debt

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Posted By: FlyRight, 4/4/2026 5:07:27 PM

For a couple of days, I’ve been contemplating a New York Post report about New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s apparent willingness to saddle New York, a state already drowning in debt, with another $1.5 billion in obligations. How in the world could she be so fiscally irresponsible? However, having read Mike McDaniel’s essay about blue state insolvency, I finally understand what’s going on: She knows (or, at least, assumes) that the bill will never come due. Here’s what the New York Post reported: Gov. Kathy Hochul is weighing a possible deal with a top union to allow public workers from teachers to nurses hired after 2012 to retire at 55 —

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Reply 1 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 4/4/2026 7:48:22 PM (No. 2089023)
I thought that life expectancy was increasing. I thought that the Social Security retirement age was going up. Retire at 55?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mifla 4/5/2026 3:49:47 AM (No. 2089068)
Will not be the first time that a blue state will demand to be bailed out by the rest of us. I hope the president after Trump is Vance and that he is the one to tell her to live within her means.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 4/5/2026 7:53:44 AM (No. 2089121)
Teacher union bribery is a surefire way to achieve the goal of nearly one hundred percent of teachers voting democrat. It has been working well in Pennsylvania where the selfish teachers retire early, enjoy a flood of benefits and get paid more along the way if they are willing to get a (paid for by the taxpayers) Master's degree. That's on top of working nine months a year. Great work if you can get it and pumping out illiterate students poses no problem for you and the state.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LLAMA 4/5/2026 11:20:42 AM (No. 2089216)
In fact it's common practice for public employees to retire at a young age. Like the military, retirement eligibility is based all or in large part on years of service, not purely age. In my home city, employees can retire with pay after 23 years of service which for many means mid-40s. It's likely the cause of most city's retirement funds not meeting national standards for viability.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: paral04 4/5/2026 12:45:12 PM (No. 2089236)
So, teachers, who can't get their students to read, only have to work until they are 55 while others, who don't get 8 weeks vacation every year, have to wait until they are 67. Nice.
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