NY and CA Offer to Buy Kentucky So They Can Stop Bailing It Out The Rest of the Time
This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Moscow) seemed to put the kibosh on any more coronavirus stimulus packages. On the same day that updated unemployment figures showed more than 20 million people have lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, McConnell decried previous coronavirus aid packages as “blue state bailouts” and said he’d keep the Senate focused on ramming conservative justices onto federal court benches instead.
Predictably, Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Democratic governor, took umbrage to McConnell’s suggestion that blue states should simply go broke and file bankruptcy instead of getting bailouts.
The Governor said now is not the time for such hyperpartisanship. “Think of what he is saying. People died. 15,000 people died in New York, but they were predominantly Democrats, so why should we help them?” Cuomo said. “If there was ever a time for humanity and decency, now is the time.”
In a related but unforeseen development, New York and California held a teleconference with each other using the Zoom video conferencing app sometime this afternoon. Sources say that the gubernatorial administrations in each state have agreed, on paper anyway, to an unprecedented financial pact between them. In a letter they intend to sent to Congress and the White House, California and New York are prepared to “put an end to the silly question of who needs bailouts more often.”
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California has one of the largest economies in the world, and New York doesn’t lag that far behind the Golden State. Apparently, the two states’ governors decided on their call that they should take a bold step and do something that has never been done in American history. Cuomo and Newsom will offer to have New York and California split the cost of buying the entire state of Kentucky — its assets and liabilities — outright.
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