Andrew Cuomo--What can I say?

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I just haven't been able to keep up with the pace of madness to write my thoughts coherently. Sometimes, though, the madness just writes itself.

On a day when when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo coerced state employees in major wage and benefit concessions, the sports section of the New York Times posted a literally groundbreaking story about dirt.

Apparently, dirt is big money. At least it is when it's the dirt that Derek Jeter stood on--but only on the night of his 3,000 hit. Any other day of the year, it's just dirt.

Sadly, New York voters had little choice in the 2010 election. Both Andrew Cuomo and his opponent Carl Paladino cling to the lunatic fallacy that state workers are making too much money--and we need low taxes to spur "innovation," so that private sector workers can prosper.

Perhaps if New York's state income tax where lower still, Steiner Sports might be inclined to sell Derek Jeter's underwear from the historic night. Or maybe the urinal cakes from the clubhouse bathroom could fetch top dollar. How about his athletic cup?

Even sarcasm is insufficient to describe the total idiocy of an economic policy that punishes university professors, welfare fraud investigators and environmental conservation workers in hopes that the Lloyd Blankfein's and Brandon Steiner's will "trickle down" wealth the the rest of us.

I just have one question for Governor Cuomo: If high taxes discourage worker productivity, do you really think that when Derek Jeter is standing on that valuable dirt, he cares about his tax rate?

Maybe we should ask Paul Molitor for a second opinion.

Remember, Governor, there's only one right answer. And there's only one thing a good ballplayer thinks about when he's in the batter's box. It sure as hell ain't taxes.