Posted on 04/17/2020 2:39:25 PM PDT by lowbridge
Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a proposed budget Thursday that shaved $6 billion from his initial request and begged the feds for a $7.4 billion injection of aid, linking New York’s recovery from the coronavirus to any national rebound.
“Everyone wants a restart, everyone wants our economy to recover,” de Blasio said. “But, there has to be a really clear understanding, if we can’t provide the basics for our people then you can kiss the recovery goodbye.”
He added: “If we are not strong, if our people are not safe, then this nation cannot recover.”
De Blasio, who is operating under a current budget of $92.8 billion, introduced an $89.3 billion revised budget proposal that shuts down the city’s public pools and axes other beloved summer programs.
The city budget has skyrocketed by more than 26 percent in six years under de Blasio, up from $72 billion in 2014.
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Kiss! Kiss!
Adios NYC and de Blasio!
So big deal if NYC goes bankrupt!
Companies are finding out that they don't have pay NYC rents to run businesses.
It is amazing what can be done in a red state via the internet at much less cost, energy usage, and damage to Greta's precious environment.
really, no kidding. why not deblahsio?
He could probably save even more than that if he fired all his unessential gov’t workers.
So, libs want fedgov to cover their budget explosions they’ve been building up for decades of libtard control over cities and states.
Or else now its fedgov’s fault for not bailing them out.
Got it.
When I toured Manhattan in 2019, the same thing occurred to me. A huge percentage of the jobs there these days are people sitting at computers. Those jobs could easily be done in a lot of other places a lot cheaper.
Bingo. More recovery $’s for red states when businesses flee NYC.
NYC needs to pushed out to sea and someone needs to pull the plug.
He’ll pocket half of it.
I’m noticing that it’s all DemonRat gov’s and mayors that are shutting down their state/city and then blame Trump for their budget mess.
wow. Lets talk some more about Qid Pro Quo shall.
Do as I say or I’ll let people die.
Is this extortion of bribery?
tanford antibody study we’ve been waiting for.
Further confirms that CV is MORE CONTAGIOUS and LESS LETHAL than we thought.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/17/coronavirus-much-more-widespread-previously-though/
Where has $850m gone? Bill de Blasio’s wife can’t account for staggering amount of taxpayer money that the NY Mayor gave her for mental health project!
Chirlane McCray was assigned a $850million budget for her ThriveNYC program.
But records show scheme has failed to keep track of what it spent the money on.
The small amount of data that was collected shows it fell far short of targets.
Despite that, organizers have expanded the budget to $1 billion over five years.
Sorry Bill, your screwup, your problem, no money, start the layoffs and reduction in City Services.
Maybe if they had not spent so much on illegals and socked some away for a rainy day, they wouldn’t be so needy now.
Declare New York state in insurrection and engage the 1867-68 Reconstruction Act.
It begins with the appointment of a military governor and necessary troops. Next, all New York federal representatives and senators are thrown out of congress.
And it begins....
Blackmail from Bill
Too bad
You’re a commie. Figure it out
You get nothing from US
He could ask Amazon to set up a headquarters in Long Island. That could be worth a few bucks.
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