So the budget, you know, I'm a boring guy. I am, and I appreciate you guys listening to a boring guy.

This is almost like some kind of help network here to help boring guys like me.

And the reason I'm a boring guy is because I got to pay attention to budgets and to politicians and what they do and why they

do it and now you don't have to do it because I do it and then I report to you but it takes a lot of

my time I could be doing fun stuff but I'm'm not, I'm doing budget stuff.

So the latest New York State budget proposal is $254 billion, right?

There are 20 million New Yorkers.

So if you do the math, it's not even close.

So it's $254 billion the state wants to spend this year,

but there's only 20 million people,

and half of those people are kids and old people who don't work.

So how are we gonna fund this? Well, we're not,

and we go into debt and all that.

So I asked my staff to look, give me Florida, Texas, California. Let's compare.

Florida, where hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are moving, has a $115 billion budget.

New York, $254, Florida, 115.

Florida's got more people, $23 million to $20.

And their budget is 60% less than ours. How does that happen? Well, it's because Florida is bare bones.

They're not giving out all kinds of stuff free, and New York is. And that's what it's all about.

Every social program, every this, every that.

And that's how the Democrats in Albany keep their power.

We will give you stuff if you vote for us.

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