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He's showing his Fidel Castro/Daniel Ortega side. They never talked to the press (because there was no press). Deep down, De Blah Blah is a Marxist. Obviously, he cannot bring Marxism to NYC and the United States. But it's part of his soul.
In small doses he can though. He will certainly try should he attain higher office.
He's showing his Fidel Castro/Daniel Ortega side. They never talked to the press (because there was no press). Deep down, De Blah Blah is a Marxist. Obviously, he cannot bring Marxism to NYC and the United States. But it's part of his soul.
I don't think that's it. He was being grilled on his policies, and I think the reporters had him on the defensive.
In small doses he can though. He will certainly try should he attain higher office.
His every attempt has been checked so no.
And NYC has never had a mayor to attain higher office, so de Blasio has no chance. At various points Giuliani and Bloomberg were nationally popular NYC mayors, yet they could not achieve higher office. If they could not, de Blasio is DONE for.
Who's gonna pay for all this? You can't keep taxing people in the city because the corruption eats up tax revenue. The programs like Pre-K doesn't get any funding because it's a low priority issue. DeBlasio figures the new demographics in the city make more than enough to pay for their own daycare while middle class will just flee to the suburbs where Pre-K is common.
What NYC needs is more auditing of government workers like taking out Silverman and other corrupt officials that's been installed and using taxpayer money for their own personal gains. Can't run a city with so much corruption.
The money is there, right now the budget has a $3Billion surplus. And when Bloomberg was mayor he siphoned off billions of tax revenue for developers who built our luxury skyline in the 2000's. Not only that a lot of corporations in the city don't pay their fair share in taxes due to incentives from the last administration, this is where the real corruption lies, the graft you're talking about is peanuts in comparison to the hundreds of millions in tax revenue the city should be getting from multi-national shell corporations and international billionaires who buy up property in the city and leave them vacant like some interest occurring savings account. Besides, tax policy has to be approved by Albany anyway.
And no offense but just by you saying Pre-K is a low priority issue reveals that you only have some surface knowledge of the topic. Pre-K is a HUGE deal and isn't even free in most places whether suburban or urban period. It's big because it is proven to improve a child's performance throughout elementary, it would be a big part of any mayor's legacy. If you have surplus and you don't use that to invest in education, infrastructure and the like that surplus will dwindle because you aren't putting money into long term investments. All these things will cost you even more money if you keep putting them off.
He recently had the city contribute 2.5 billion to the MTA capital budget.
That's not an accomplishment. If he fixes the MTA, that would be an accomplishment. Paying into a broken system is just foolish. I'd give him more credit if he refused to pay until work rules were amended to affect savings.
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