The governor's aides sent a fully scripted speech to some local politicians and officials scheduled to speak before Mr. Cuomo at the regional budget presentations in January and February.

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A-grade, would keep the present structure more or less unchanged but establish a Social Security Reserve Board (modelled on the Federal Reserve) empowered to diversify the Trust Funds' investments into private stocks and bonds, and with its operations removed from congressional and presidential budget presentations.

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