De Blasio’s Cuban vision for New York City

NYPost.com ^ | 9/22/2013 | Michael Goodwin

[RoosterRedux]

Extra, extra, read all about it. Not all New Yorkers have the same incomes! Not all have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams! And most — gasp! — don’t live on Park Avenue or have nannies and housekeepers!

If this doesn’t strike you as breathtaking news, then you didn’t drink the Kool-Aid and join Bill de Blasio’s movement. I say movement because de Blasio doesn’t just want to be mayor. He has discovered there is poverty in Gotham and many other pesky outcomes where some people do better than others. And he intends to end that disparity.

“Fighting inequality and fighting economic injustice,” as he put it, is what he’s all about.

Good luck with that, but before New Yorkers jump onto the Democrat’s bound-for-utopia bandwagon, some history is required. We could start with Karl Marx, but we’d just get lost trying to decode the incomprehensible differences among Marxists, Leninists and Trotskyites.

Instead, let’s look at Cuba, which, strictly by the numbers, reflects the paradise de Blasio describes.

[ronnie raygun]

Detroit here they come

[ozdragon]

Unfortunately, most New Yorkers are too young to remember how dangerous the City was under Dinkins. We have been spoiled by 20 years of good, effectives mayors (Guiliani and Bloomberg).
DeBlasio is likely to be a worse mayor than Dinkins.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NYers will get the politics they voted for, good and hard.

[kabumpo]

Bloomberg is not a good mayor. I had thought that nothing could be worse than the incompetent, corrupt Dinkins - because I couldn’t imagine something as terrible as Bloomberg. He is a lunatic petty tyrant, obsessed with bottles of soda instead of dealing with the city’s real problems.

[EinNYC]

Bloomberg could NEVER be considered a "good effective mayor". More like the favorite minion of Satan. He wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in schemes like CityTime, 911 "revamping", and many no-bid contracts. He decimated the city's schools and has put the veteran teachers through undeserved living hell. He has harassed the entire populace by imposing "His Will" on them, such as banning large sodas. He has interfered with the will of the people by investing large sums of his own limitless monies on anti-gun and other causes. He has added countless minutes to commuters commuting time with his asinine BIKE LANES that perhaps 1 person/week use, sacrificing traffic lanes for that nonsense.

I could add much more, but why waste time and bandwidth on this sorry POS?

[dfwgator]

Say what you will, but Rudy was a great mayor, warts and all.

[EinNYC]

DeBlasio would be to NYC what Odungo is to the entire U.S. We would be a microcosm. There just isn’t any farther to the left that you could go, he’s there. I just read today that DeBlasio has legally changed his name a couple of times. I wonder what kind of unstable churning mind does that?