Posted on 01/01/2014 3:53:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Claiming his place as the 109th mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio delivered an inaugural address on Wednesday that focused on the issue of inequality, promising that the attention he gave to the subject when he was running for office was not merely campaign rhetoric.
Outside City Hall, in front of an audience that included members of his family, luminaries like Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and hundreds of ordinary New Yorkers, Mayor de Blasio spoke of the city’s history of embracing liberal causes, and he laid out a mayoralty that emphasized social and economic justice.
“We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love,” he said. “And so today, we commit to a new progressive direction in New York. And that same progressive impulse has written our city’s history. It’s in our DNA.”
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-— Universal Pre-K is definitely not about making kids more competitive, it’s pure propaganda -—
The goal is government control from birth through age 24. Universal, daycare, prr-school, kindergarten and college make sense in this context.
Why I moved out last year and I grew up there. Best decision I ever made and I got out just in the nick of time. I just got sick to death of living under despotism now it looks like the people there will be living under Marxism. The city wants to continually boink itself in the arse, then include me out.
It is interesting to note that last November, ONLY 22% OF NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS BOTHERED TO VOTE.
The other 78% DID NOT EVEN SHOW UP.
Soon, NYC will be wishing Dinkens was back.
There are zillions of rich Obamna voters in NYC. I say raise their taxes.....through the roof!!!! Go DeBlasio!!! Make those libs put their money where their mouth is and has been for a long time!!!
I wonder exactly how he will put an end to social and economic inequality.
How do you fight this alleged injustice of inequality? Isn’t it right and proper that a neurosurgeon makes more than hired help at a fast food place? Heck, isn’t it proper that a mayor of a major city such as New York makes more than city councilmen or mid level bureaucrats in that city, based on a much greater responsibility that goes with the job?
I would love to have this debate with de Blasio, Obama, and the rest of the liberals who are spouting off this mantra about fighting inequality. What is the sam hill is wrong with inequality??? They drop these pronouncements, and never get asked the logical follow up questions by the lap dog media. We’re supposed to lap it all up, that inequality is bad, but we’re never told why it’s bad.
Get an early start on that government indoctrination.
They’ll be sorry they didn’t. And how.
The other interpretation of this information might conclude that the 78% looked at the polls that had DeBlasio far ahead and decided they didn’t need to vote. Their guy was already winning.
I met so few real conservatives up there. Or even RINO’s. It’s really not some place worth saving. Let them implode. Just don’t use fed tax dollars to bail them out.
Then, to pursue the metaphor, 22 percent screwed the 78 percent.
It is interesting to note that last November, ONLY 22% OF NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS BOTHERED TO VOTE.
The other 78% DID NOT EVEN SHOW UP.
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If I were a NYC voter, I probably wouldn’t have showed up either. The Republican offering was a pretty weak link as well, not to mention the fact he had no chance.
I know making $500,000 K sounds like a lot of money, but in NYC a union fork truck drivers probably clear $175K in a slow year.
Trouble with that is then they'll metastasize to other states, and take their ideology and voting habits with them. It never dawns on them that they're the problem.
The upside is that they’re much less likely to reproduce in any significant numbers.
New York City, more than most American cities, is based upon the idea of inequality.
The city has thousands of millionaire celebs, Wall St. hotshots and UN honchos being catered to by legions of service workers. Eliminate the inequality, you eliminate the reason for the town’s existence.
In addition, the city’s rent control scheme means you have people paying $300 rent control apartments living next door to others paying $6000 for the same unit. That’s about as unequal as it comes, changing that around will be chaotic.
I just can’t wait til NYCers start feeling “Weiner remorse”
“...that inequality is bad, but we’re never told why it’s bad.”
They’re afraid to say, SOCIALISM/MARXISM/COMMUNISM. It’s just “understood”, so they don’t actually mention it. Everything I heard coming out of 0bummers mouth in 2007-08, pre-election, was just that crap. The 0bummerbots glossed right over it, with their ‘hope & change’ crap.
“Red States should aggressively court NYC companies to get them to relocate.”
This.
I’m with you. I was lucky enough to spend about 3 years
of my mid-twenties there. Wonderful, had a blast. But this
is gonna be something to watch. This guy stands for most of
the philosophies most New Yorkers believe in, but have not
actually had to see enacted. If he REALLY wants to end
inequality, he should abolish rent-controlled apartments, instead of horse carriages, then we would see how much they
are against inequality.
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