Posted on 02/23/2021 8:16:18 PM PST by Rummyfan
The last thing New York City needs is another shutdown. But the worst mayor in America just tried to kick kids off a couple of Central Park ice rinks.
The rinks, you see, are run by the Trump Organization, and because Orange Man Bad, they had to go — and to hell with the kids. To hell with the city.
Sure, Mayor de Blasio changed his mind, and so there are kids on the ice again. Anyway, given the weight bearing down on New York right now, maybe the Wollman and Lasker rinks don’t count for much. Right? But hold on a minute. They matter a lot, because normalcy matters — and because normalcy won’t return by itself.
Gotham is one of the world’s greatest cities, but it is also an idea. It has always been a dare — you make it here, you can make it anywhere, right? — and so now the challenge is as much moral as it is structural: Can we measure up? Can we regain the swagger we all took for granted a year ago?
Crises come, and crises go, but the Big Apple over time has been blessed with leaders who understood that making the wheels turn takes smarts, but also spirit. In the 1970s, as the city struggled with the necessary retrenchments of near-bankruptcy, there was the always-ebullient Ed Koch to help the bitter medicine go down. He asked, “How’m I doin’?” but you mostly knew that he was doin’ just fine, thank you.
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New Yorkers screwed themselves. It isn’t the politicians; it’s the voters who elect them. This whole notion of leadership is BS. The fault lies with the people.
“It isn’t the politicians; it’s the voters who elect them.”
That assumes the politicians are honestly elected by the voters. I’m not convinced any elections in the big cities are honest.
Import the third world, become the third world. It is written nowhere that NYC can’t become Mogadishu. In fact, it’s well on it’s way.
The only way to rescue NYC from its Ghost Town funk is to replace all elected and appointed officials with random names from the phone book. Either that or nuke it from space.
Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’ (It’s not)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877292/posts
Dense, dirty, dinghy, dreary, expensive and crime-ridden.
I grew up out west. No one ever wanted to go to NYC. For what reason?
Everyone I knew made jokes about NYC and put it down. Made fun of it.
When I was attending school at Arizona State University, I knew two fraternity brothers who were from NYC. They bragged a little about the city and all the things there were to do there.
But when asked if they were going back after they graduated, they laughed and said no way. It wasn't that nice.
>> The fault lies with the people
Indeed, but that would be NYC and Albany. Regionally, the state leans right, and that includes Staten Island.
New York City has world-class advertising agencies. That miraculous image of the city that never sleeps is bought and paid for. Same reason people prefer Coke over Pepsi or vice versa, despite either tasting like malted battery acid.
Wall it off and turn it into a prison.
VILE New Yorkers GOT what they DESERVED!
They need another Fiorella LaGuardia for this mess.
Considering how mind-bogglingly low the turnout allegedly was for NYC’s last mayoral election, I think you’re on to something....
Chili sauce?
“The fault lies with the people.” The people vote for politicians that the media says are for them. The media is leftist so the politicians they endorse are leftists. There is a point when you destroy enough of the tax base where you can never recover. I believe NYC has passed that point. Federal bailouts will only postpone the inevitable.
People vote.
But do those votes count?
Or do the people counting the vote ensure some votes count more than others?
There are, or were, only two reasons to go to NYC: for the museums and the food.
The museums sadly aren’t what they used to be, and while there is one deli still open that I would visit, that place ships.
Pretty smart lady you are there Pining 4
Are you giving me more reasons to never have to go there or painting NYC as an attractive destination?
Because I still don't see the draw.
Funny guy....
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