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Your Christmas Present: Our Political Leaders Are Killing Off New York City
The Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 21 Dec 2020 | Franci sMenton

Posted on 12/22/2020 5:27:21 PM PST by Rummyfan

It’s the week before Christmas, traditionally the best week of the year to be in New York City. This is the week when tourists by the thousands flock to town, hundreds of restaurants are full and festive, the theater does peak business, the symphony and opera and ballet put on their most popular shows, concert venues are fully booked, hotel rooms are impossible to find, stores are packed, and beautiful Christmas lights are everywhere.

Not this year. Don’t even think about coming here right now. Almost all of the best things are closed, by order of our political masters. The term “ghost town” is a fair description. Here’s a small roundup:

Restaurants. After a few months of graciously allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining plus indoor at 25% capacity, last week — just as fall was about to turn into full winter — Governor Cuomo ordered all restaurants in New York City completely closed for indoor dining until further notice. That’s right, all indoor dining at restaurants is closed in New York City. Outdoor? This is December! For most of the last week, the temperature has been well below 32F (0C); today it finally got back to a little above 40F (5C). In my neighborhood, normally the best restaurant area of the City, nearly all of the restaurants have given up. A handful have built elaborate “outdoor” structures where a few hardy patrons in parkas huddle beneath highly inadequate heat lamps. The evidence that indoor dining at restaurants is a significant source of spread of the coronavirus is non-existent.

Broadway theater. All of it is completely closed. Through May 2021!

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“I’d like to say very bluntly our mission is to redistribute wealth,” the mayor said. “A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.”

The purpose of the “redistribution of wealth” is supposedly to fix the City’s schools. Those schools currently spend about $28,000 per year per student on K-12 education, which is well more than double the national average. As usual, de Blasio takes no responsibility for the failure of New York City schools to achieve even near-average results for almost triple the cost elsewhere in the country, and just demands more and more and yet more money.

1 posted on 12/22/2020 5:27:21 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

CGI Dick Clark will drop the ball in CGI Times Square with braindead CGI “celebrities” getting hammered.


2 posted on 12/22/2020 5:29:36 PM PST by dynachrome ( “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.” Ed Koch)
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To: dynachrome

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.


3 posted on 12/22/2020 5:31:35 PM PST by Old Yeller (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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4 posted on 12/22/2020 5:31:52 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“Don't even think about coming here right now. Almost all of the best things are closed, by order of our political masters. The term “ghost town” is a fair description.”

Third world hell-hole is a better description.

It is going to get worse if they don't build a wall to prevent people from fleeing.

5 posted on 12/22/2020 5:32:07 PM PST by jeffersondem
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Asbury Park was spening 36K per Student

They renamed Bangs Elementary to Barack Hussein Obama Elementary, the staff and students were in tears, this would raise the school and make it better give hope to students to do better, the blah blah blah

Before the name change only 14% of the students could read, today after the name change less then 7% can read. So much for that hope.

36K per student and only 7% can read?

Failure factories


6 posted on 12/22/2020 5:32:54 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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It is going to get worse if they don’t build a wall to prevent people from fleeing.


Who needs a wall when you can blow the bridges and flood the tunnels


7 posted on 12/22/2020 5:33:53 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Rummyfan
Ahead of his time?


8 posted on 12/22/2020 5:35:16 PM PST by nascarnation
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I love NYC at Christmas time, taking customers out to lunch or dinner in the 2 weeks leading up to (usually) the 23rd every year. I probably expense 5K in that time frame every year but not this year. I fault NYC for alot of things, especially the damn politicians they keep putting in office but man, there is not a penny of assistance for the restaurant industry in this damn bill! I'd like to see the people there get in Schmucky's face (and the rest of them) and put some damn pressure to get this bill changed.

If they don't well then they are getting what they voted for.

9 posted on 12/22/2020 5:35:37 PM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: nascarnation

Back when the Dow being down 12 points was a “skid”.


10 posted on 12/22/2020 5:35:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Before the name change only 14% of the students could read, today after the name change less then 7% can read. So much for that hope.

It would be laughable if it were not practically criminal, and the children being... left behind.

11 posted on 12/22/2020 5:37:40 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

They want all those blue voters to move to red states.


12 posted on 12/22/2020 5:39:55 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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And you could call a local phone number to get recorded updates on the stock market every half hour.


13 posted on 12/22/2020 5:41:24 PM PST by nascarnation
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Political Leaders Are Killing Off New York City

They're not the least bit squeamish about it. Dominion has removed fear of voters.

14 posted on 12/22/2020 5:43:20 PM PST by Spirochete
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15 posted on 12/22/2020 5:47:34 PM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: Rummyfan

They criticize Trump as a braggart but Cuomo is as much a braggart or more than Trump.


16 posted on 12/22/2020 5:48:32 PM PST by Brilliant
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This time it's Democrats Cuomo and DeBlasio telling NYC to drop dead, and they're pulling the trigger!

And guess what? The media and CDC bureaucrats keep it quiet, but the States with the three worst deaths per 100,000 are NYC, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Three of the harshest lockdown jurisdictions. (OK New York State isn't in that elite class but Benito Cuomo is making upstate suffer for NYC's sins.)

So, where is Dr. Faustus' damn "science" that the lockdowns are effective at preventing spread of the disease???

17 posted on 12/22/2020 5:48:46 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Spirochete
Those of us in Upstate New York are praying they secede.
18 posted on 12/22/2020 5:50:01 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: Rummyfan

Enjoy your christmas

For tomorrow we overthrow the commie socialist tyrants and anyone enabling, suporting, and protecting them.


19 posted on 12/22/2020 5:50:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Post #18!


20 posted on 12/22/2020 5:52:32 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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