Posted on 10/25/2022 10:46:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
New York City Mayor Eric Adams touted the tent city he is subsidizing as "a model for America's future. The cost of traditional living quarters in our city has gone beyond what the average person can afford. The facility on Randall's Island has most of the comforts of home. The migrants staying there are given three meals a day, fluff-and-fold laundry service and an array of entertainment including TV and video games. When combined with the free medical care and cell phones provided by the federal government it's a viable lifestyle."
Photos of the insides of the compound show an airport hangar sized sleeping room with hundreds of cots, a dining room with 60 tables, an entertainment room with cushy sofas facing big screen TVs lining the walls, video game consoles, refrigerators stocked with bottled water, coffee and tea dispensers, popcorn machines, Xbox game consoles, ping-pong and foosball tables, and board games. The whole site is equipped with Wi-Fi and a temperature control system designed to keep the interior at 70 degrees.
The cost to operate the facility is about $15,000 a month per resident, a price tag that the Mayor declared "a bargain given the sophistication of the undertaking." Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor of New York state characterized the $180,000 per person per year cost for these accommodations "a deal only a Democrat would find reasonable. I guess when their other alternative is to put these people up in the City's hotels it could seem a bargain, but these are people who have illegally entered our country. What's reasonable about forcing taxpayers to support people who shouldn't even be here? Democrats are bankrupting the country, the state, the city, and the working people of America. They have no mandate from the voters to do this. I hope that the citizens of New York will make that clear as they cast their ballots between now and November 8th."
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That will get you a pretty nice apartment in Manhattan. Are the toilets in these facilities made of gold?
It’s like that book “If you give a mouse a cookie”.
Article says it’s for migrants...
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