Among the many things that bother me about the current Monroe County administration is the way it misrepresents the truth. Call it spin but the way it is practiced here - it is intentional and misrepresenting the facts to me means lying.

Sunday - when the Giants are hopefully beating the Bills for a playoff spot listen to Maggie’s commercials about the FAIR plan.

She will say among other things that the budget problem was solved locally.

Define locally. People in Rochester decided? A particular local GOP controlled county government body decided? What is the local part?

Truth be known the plan takes/diverts/intercepts money allocated to schools and uses it to relieve the county of a debt obligation. The Administration also says the schools will be fine with the “record state aid” from Albany. I’m sure the county also gets some state funds as well.

This is the did we really solve this locally? part.

Check out the State Budget. From a write-up from Jay Gallagher.

The budget hole the state has to climb out of just got a little deeper.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli reported today that higher than expected spending and lower than expected tax revenues - always a bad combination - has left the state with $469 million less than the budget anticipated. That means the potential $4.3 billion deficit that the state is facing for the fiscal year that starts on April 1 could be even more, unless the trends turn around.

There was no immediate reaction from the state Budget Division, but top officials have been saying for months that Wall Street woes were likely to depress revenues.

So, our piece of the pie is part of a budget that has a deficit of between $4.3 and $4.7 Billion (that’s $4,300,000,000 dollars). We are DEPENDENT on the State for funding.

How is that solved locally other than local people decided to depend on the State?