Posted on 09/08/2017 2:41:09 AM PDT by SMGFan
In a candid interview in 'New York' magazine, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sounds like a full-blown communist.
If you are one of the millions who passes through New York City via the Cross Bronx Expressway, you have seen up close the devastating impact of New York City’s rent controls. As you grip your steering wheel on the poorly maintained expressway and look at the terrible conditions of the tenements all around, you see scenes that for a moment could make you believe you are looking at a bombed-out city in Europe after World War II, not 21st Century America.
Sadly, the root causes of urban decay do not penetrate the consciousness of New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio. New Yorkers are suffering under rent controls, and yet, the mayor is gearing up for still larger battles against the laws of economics.
In a candid interview in New York Magazine, de Blasio wants us to believe that the residents of New York are now all central-planning socialists and communists:
If you are one of the millions who passes through New York City via the Cross Bronx Expressway, you have seen up close the devastating impact of New York City’s rent controls. As you grip your steering wheel on the poorly maintained expressway and look at the terrible conditions of the tenements all around, you see scenes that for a moment could make you believe you are looking at a bombed-out city in Europe after World War II, not 21st Century America. Sadly, the root causes of urban decay do not penetrate the consciousness of New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio. New Yorkers are suffering under rent controls, and yet, the mayor is gearing up for still larger battles against the laws of economics. In a candid interview in New York Magazine, de Blasio wants us to believe that the residents of New York are now all central-planning socialists and communists:
“I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs.”
It’s nearly impossible to get a sane honest person as mayor of any major city?
To many opportunities for the corrupt.
Voter fraud is a part of it,too.
but the also the less motivated vote for the “freebies”?
Maybe cities should be divided up?
In the case of the borough’s of NYC.
Maybe each borough should be there own city with there own Mayor?
This is what happens when nobody bothers to vote. The side that wants power will “vote” for them. I am sure the lowest IQ demographics of each borough had a 110% voting turnout.
That is what you already have in New York, is`nt it great?
iirc, Warren was elected when a small minority showed up to vote for him....the NYC voters were lackadaisical and allowed him to the the throne....
they have a borough president ( a paid job does nothing?)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_president
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