By 2016, New York City will again be facing bankruptcy. The big question is will things end as happily for the City as they did in 1975 when they were saved by a Democratic Congress and the intellectually challenged President Ford.
Any intelligent working person will flee NYC.
Excuse me, but isn't de Blasio rich? Will he be emptying his bank accounts soon?
Proper NYC ejection procedure.
1. Assume proper position
2. Handles - Raise
3. Triggers - Squeeze
Many different fractured groups of immigrants and their kids now make up most of NYC population,
That keeps them from uniting against tyranny that is sold as fairness. NYC has a long road.
his real name is Warren Wilhelm II.
I say call him Kaiser Wilhelm II of NYC!
Don’t count on him suffering blowback when the producers in NY start to Go Galt.
I saw the same thing happen close-up with Coleman Young in Detroit. The more people with wealth fled, the more he railed against them. The more he railed against them, the more popular he became with his base. And the bigger his vote counts got.
The left, trying to steal another word. This time “populist”.
There are both left and right populists. He could try something genuinely new and try to govern New York according to the populist theory of government provided by the TEA Party, but no he’ll just govern according to the hoary old left-wing playbook that’s been called progressive, socialist, liberal, social democrat, progressive (again), and call it “populist”.
I visited NYC in 1989, before Giuliani. I was appalled. I swore I’d never go back. There was garbage in the streets, and bums sleeping all over the sidewalks wherever there was a subway vent, even at the entrance to expensive restaurants.
I went back in 2001. I was amazed at the transformation. I suppose the New Yorkers prefer the old days, or don’t remember them.
The rise of DeBlasio and his ilk brings this to mind:
The City of Brass
Rudyard Kipling
IN a land that the sand overlays—the ways to her gates are untrod—
A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God,
Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall,
And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all!
When the wine stirred in their heart their bosoms dilated,
They rose to suppose themselves kings over all things created—
To decree a new earth at a birth without labour or sorrow—
To declare: “We prepare it to-day and inherit to-morrow.”
They chose themselves prophets and priests of minute understanding,
Men swift to see done, and outrun, their extremest commanding—
Of the tribe which describe with a jibe the perversions of Justice—
Panders avowed to the crowd whatsoever its lust is.
Swiftly these pulled down the walls that their fathers had made them—
The impregnable ramparts of old, they razed and relaid them
As playgrounds of pleasure and leisure with limitless entries,
And havens of rest for the wastrels where once walked the sentries;
And because there was need of more pay for the shouters and marchers,
They disbanded in face of their foemen their yeomen and archers.
They replied to their well-wishers’ fears—to their enemies’ laughter,
Saying: “Peace! We have fashioned a God Which shall save us hereafter.
We ascribe all dominion to man in his factions conferring,
And have given to numbers the Name of the Wisdom unerring.”
They said: “Who has hate in his soul? Who has envied his neighbour?
Let him arise and control both that man and his labour.”
They said: “Who is eaten by sloth? Whose unthrift has destroyed him?
He shall levy a tribute from all because none have employed him.”
They said: “Who hath toiled, who hath striven, and gathered possession?
Let him be spoiled. He hath given full proof of transgression.”
They said: “Who is irked by the Law? Though we may not remove it,
If he lend us his aid in this raid, we will set him above it!”
So the robber did judgment again upon such as displeased him,
The slayer, too, boasted his slain, and the judges released him.
As for their kinsmen far off, on the skirts of the nation,
They harried all earth to make sure none escaped reprobation,
They awakened unrest for a jest in their newly-won borders,
And jeered at the blood of their brethren betrayed by their orders.
They instructed the ruled to rebel, their rulers to aid them;
And, since such as obeyed them not fell, their Viceroys obeyed them.
When the riotous set them at naught they said: “Praise the upheaval!
For the show and the word and the thought of Dominion is evil!”
They unwound and flung from them with rage, as a rag that defiled them
The imperial gains of the age which their forefathers piled them.
They ran panting in haste to lay waste and embitter for ever
The wellsprings of Wisdom and Strength which are Faith and Endeavour.
They nosed out and digged up and dragged forth and exposed to derision
All doctrine of purpose and worth and restraint and prevision:
And it ceased, and God granted them all things for which they had striven,
And the heart of a beast in the place of a man’s heart was given….
When they were fullest of wine and most flagrant in error,
Out of the sea rose a sign—out of Heaven a terror.
Then they saw, then they heard, then they knew—for none troubled to hide it,
A host had prepared their destruction, but still they denied it.
They denied what they dared not abide if it came to the trial,
But the Sword that was forged while they lied did not heed their denial.
It drove home, and no time was allowed to the crowd that was driven.
The preposterous-minded were cowed—they thought time would be given.
There was no need of a steed nor a lance to pursue them;
It was decreed their own deed, and not chance, should undo them.
The tares they had laughingly sown were ripe to the reaping.
The trust they had leagued to disown was removed from their keeping.
The eaters of other men’s bread, the exempted from hardship,
The excusers of impotence fled, abdicating their wardship,
For the hate they had taught through the State brought the State no defender,
And it passed from the roll of the Nations in headlong surrender!
He’s a communist. The people chose him, and they got what they deserved.
New York City meet TOILET. TOILET meet New York City. LOL I hope the place disintigrates.
New York City meet TOILET. TOILET meet New York City. LOL I hope the place disintigrates.
I hope he taxes them into non existence.
"The people have spoken ... and they must be punished."
You'd think with the experience of Lindsay, Dinkins, and the other lib nightmare mayors, New Yorkers would be somewhat savvy about these things. And I'll wager a great percentage of the 75% who voted for their commie mayor were around when Disaster Dinkins was mayor. You can only shake your head.
Recent article on DeB and his wife indicate that both worked for the Clintons. Also reveals that his wife was a lesbian when he met her but he persuaded her to bear his child. (Elle magazine, Jan. ‘14)
New York is doomed
Didn’t realize it was Heather Mac Donald until the end. Figures. I love how she demolishes libs in her understated style.