Pataki is as greedy and monstrously unprincipaled as is the whole neo-con brigade. The times have changed since small populations and communities could tend to their own. In a huge capitalist monster like this one, there is no one interested in those who cannot fend for themselve for whatever reason -- incuding over 50,000 wounded vets from Iraq getting almost no help from the gov't that forced them to sacrifice their lives to turn Irag into Houston, Texas.