Considering the fact that most voters of the rotten apple are a bunch of stupid p****$, they are now just chosing one big p**** to govern them.
Why can’t Manhattan and the other rotten boroughs just get sawn off and allowed to drift off to sea? Barry Goldwater had that idea back in the 1960s and had we followed his advice, we might have been spared the more egregious democorat offenders of recent times - not to mention their colonizing New Jersey, New York State, New Hampshire and Florida with their wacky ideas..
Go ahead bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.
Whoever the next Mayor of NYC is we can be sure of one thing — HE/SHE WILL BE FACING A HUGE BUDGET CRISIS.
In 2002, city-funded spending was $26.4 billion. In the budget for the fiscal year that starts next week, spending will be $53.7 billion — twice as much. We spend $19 billion more than if the budget had kept up with inflation. Over Bloomberg’s third term, spending is up 17 percent — nearly twice inflation.
The culprits, as everyone knows, are public-employee benefits. Next year, the city will spend $17.1 billion on pensions, health care and other “fringe” benefits — 12 times what it will spend on welfare.
The federal government has helped New York more than it has hurt over the past five years — most specifically through zero-percent interest rates. Banks can borrow nearly for free and make money speculating. New York faces big budget risks now because the Fed may soon raise rates.
But costs aren’t going down as interest rates go up. Toward the end of the next mayor’s first term, pensions and health care will run $19.7 billion annually — 33 percent of city-funded spending (up from 22 when the mayor took office). And as interest rates rise, the next mayor will face another crunch: It will cost more to borrow.
We can be sure of one thing -— NONE OF THESE CURRENT CROP OF MAYORAL CANDIDATES WANT TO EVEN TALK ABOUT REINING IN SPENDING....
This will not end well.