[relictele]

New York has a major opportunity to lead the nation in reducing emissions and to strike a blow against inequality by making significant and bold investments in public transit across the state.

What hackneyed writing from this choo choo train driver (hint: the rails mean you can't steer).

What is a 'minor opportunity' one wonders?

Hasn't New York led the nation in too many areas - all of them ending in misery and disaster?

New York is a small dot on a very large map. How will reducing emissions in very small area affect the rest of the map, to say nothing of the globe?

What does inequality have to do with it?

New York is, like the rest of Yankeeland, already facing huge budget shortfalls thanks to socialism which causes brain drain. Where will the money for these so-called investments come from?

[Obadiah]

... and to strike a blow against inequality...

That is straight out of Marx's Communist Manifesto, or Mao's Little Red Book.