To judge from the happy talk coming from City Hall and Albany, these are Gotham’s golden days. The pols point to sky-high budgets — investments, they call them — as proof they are fighting to make New York better than ever. To which the public responds: Liars, liars, pants on fire!New Yorkers, it turns out, see life in the five boroughs as bad and getting worse. Much worse. That’s the resounding message from a huge survey of city residents conducted by the private Citizens Budget Commission. The findings amount to a thumbs-down response to our government overlords by painting a...