Posted on 04/07/2021 7:46:19 PM PDT by Rummyfan
“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.”
That’s how Gideon Tucker — a New Yorker who knew Albany as a former legislator, secretary of state and judge — put it back in 1866.
His wisdom, as demonstrated repeatedly over the ages, is timeless.
Yet there is something different, and especially troubling, about this time. The possibility of permanent decline and the ultimate destruction of the New York we know is unmatched in modern memory.
With Republicans reduced to hecklers, Albany Democrats, oblivious or reckless or both, are marching toward the cliff in an Alfred E. Neuman, “What, me worry?” way. The rising chorus of “Stop!” goes unheeded.
Washington is sending trainloads of money to blue states to bail out their high-tax, high-spend habits. As longtime government guru Dick Ravitch writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Congress has been generous, allocating more than $12 billion to New York state, $6 billion to the city, $6 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and $9 billion to the state’s schools.”
The state’s take raises the total budget about to be adopted to $212 billion, some $18 billion higher than the fiscal year that just ended. Florida, which has 2 million more people, will make do with spending $97 billion this year.
Ah, but in Albany, it’s never enough. Not as long as the Legislature is in session.
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They are overrunning us. Mostly down south in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Which are hopelessly blue. And nuts.
What does any of that have to do with Matt Gaetz?
NYC faces doom and will drag the rest of the state down with it.
The parents were idiots.
They should have made him pay his own way, car, insurance, everything.
Or take a bike.
And no borrowing the family car either.
:)
The last mayor of Baltimore worth his salt was William Donald Schaefer. The city thrived. Ever since the attitude is “ we gots the keys to the plantation and we can do what we want.” Last three mayors ( women) were all convicted of felonies.
Dems are turning New York into Cuba.
Viva la Revolucion!
Que?
It's inevitable. A city, especially an archaic one, has too many limitations in the modern world.
Read later.
I see what you did there. Good thing Matt got PDJT to issue those blank pardons huh?
Cities can be well run—but it requires a tough law and order mayor that has zero tolerance for crime.
That rules out all Democrats.
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