Take heart, NY Freepers, because we are about to witness, via the election (or annoitation, if you please) the death knell of what was once the most vibrant, unique, decandent city on the North American continent.
Under Comrade Spitzer, and his homosexual, limp-wristed stooge-sidekick Bloomberg, jobs, capital, and people will finally be left no other choice but to flee NYS & NYC. Spitzer is an empty-suited crusader, a witch-hunter who wants to subject capitilism, free markets, and indeed, personal freedoms to a dunking stoll type torture test, in the hopes of furthering his communist political agenda. He is Joe McCarthy without the patriotism, the Anti-Capitialist as opposed to the Anti-Communist. Last one out of NYC please turn off the lights.
Enjoyable fantasy. But my nyc condo is up 25% in one year, and my property taxes actually went down. I havent seen a single property go for asking price, and when one comes available there is a mad bidding war and it's sold in a week. The stock market is headed for a huge year again in 2005, and this keeps New York swimming in cash while other cities are still recovering from the recession. Obergrupenfuhrer Spitzer will be a destructive force as the next governor for sure, but it will take a lot more than him to bring NYC down.