Posted on 11/09/2025 5:59:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Zohran Mamdani won his race to become the next mayor of New York City on Tuesday. On Thursday the NY Times published a story explaining just how expensive his plans for the city will be. Let's start with free child care:
The biggest plan, by far, is free universal child care. The city already offers free preschool for all 4-year-olds and many 3-year-olds. Expanding child care to infants and to toddlers under 3 would be a major challenge. Mr. Mamdani’s administration would have to create new day care facilities and hire scores of child care workers.
Mr. Mamdani’s campaign estimated that this could cost $6 billion annually.
The Mamdani estimate is roughly equal to the annual cost of the NYPD, the largest police department in the United States. But it's important to note that no one really knows what this will cost. One left-wing group has estimated the cost for NYC could be as little as $2.5 billion per year but other estimates of the cost of expanding a program like his to the entire state come in at $12.7 billion to $20 billion per year. Just shy of half the state's population lives in New York City so the cost of Mamdani's plan could range from $6 billion up to $9 billion per year. Again, no one knows because the cost is dependent on a lot of factors including the wages paid to the caretakers.
Estimates for child care programs vary widely depending on enrollment rates and the wage levels of the child care workers. The average annual salary of a child care worker in New York State is $38,000. Advocates say that it should be closer to $85,000, the average for a kindergarten teacher.
Experts agree that implementing the plan would be a monumental task...
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Imagine who NYC will hire for the “free” childcare. I see that former Democratic New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie-Marie Laughton (and his/her/their former partner) is available.
Good! Being stupid should hurt.
This will be a great time to play Socialist Bingo. Well, if you don’t live in nyc....
It will be another massive failure of the promises of socialism. And like always, socialists will put the blame on anything but socialism. “Well, if the Bourgeoisie didn’t flee us before we could take their assets, it would have worked”, and so on....
Mamdani wants to have the means to indoctrinate as many children as he can at the earliest stages of their lives so he can make embracing Communism and anti-Semitism seem perfectly reasonable and acceptable to them.
Should be interesting to watch how Mamdani plans to fulfill his campaign promises. Wonder how long it will take NY’ers to become disenchanged with their vote for Mamdani? Suspect it won’t take long but it’ll be too late.
Any high estimate they use, double it.
“will put the blame on anything but socialism.”
They will blame white Christians in the Ozarks and morons will believe them.
NYC Budget
Public schools $41 BILLION
NYPD $5.8 billion
Guess which one Madcommie wants to cut
Stupid stupid NYers.
And the ones who voted this loser in aren’t even native born.
Unfortunately, NYC voters will continue to be oblivious to the destruction. Morons.
NYC present budget is $111 billion.
Big time.
The NYPD.
Each childcare worker needs to be paid $30/hr, right Zohran?
So he got the Hochul endorsement just at the last second and it could make or break him.
His new donors’ list to fund the socialist dream:
Arab states, ISIS, Hamas, China, billionaires in NYC, stores and restaurants as well as citizen taxpayers with homes and apartments in NYC, the outstate taxpayers in New York and Trump and the US Government (last one was scratched off by a Bic pen).
Young socialists I’ve talked to through the years always said “Cuban (or other) socialism would have succeeded but the major capitalist exploiter nations isolated the country and had trade embargos and CIA plots to cut them down. Otherwise true, pure socialism which hasn’t been tried, would work perfectly.”
BS.
Mamdani and his phony glow of charisma will wear off.
I remember the woman on the East Coast and the other separately on the West Coast who leaned out of cars to talk to a TV reporter, and each said: “When Obama gets in office this car and the gas to drive it will be paid for my Obama.”
Because of the racial factor, Obama got a free pass.
The next guy may get riots and burning overturned police cars.
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