“We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love,” Mr. de Blasio said. “And so today, we commit to a new progressive direction in New York. And that same progressive impulse has written our city’s history. It’s in our DNA.”
“There are some who think that now, as we turn to governing – well, that things will just continue pretty much like they always have,” Mr. de Blasio said. “So let me be clear: When I said I would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, I meant it. And we will do it.”
‘Will Not Wait’ on Inequality, de Blasio Tells New York
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... that threaten to unravel the city we love...
Note that he doesn't say that the city is being "unraveled" at this moment.
He's invented a problem that he knows is going to happen, and he's going to save us from it.
Or you could look at it in the alternative...
He's planning on creating the problem... that is the "unraveling" that he is warning us is about to occur.
Thus begins New York City's great communist experiment.
"He's planning on creating the problem..."
What he is planning will create more problems.
Bill de Blasio: Central Park's horse-drawn carriages should ride into history
Never mind the jobs that it generates, beneficial to the city's economy, not to mention how it also benefit horses who will now go un-needed.
So, the net effect will harm the cause he is supposedly aiming to make better.
Tighten your seat belts New YOrkers.
You get what you asked for.
So no whining.
I saw a TV report yesterday that claimed many NYC finance businesses are poised to re-locate from NYC to Charlotte.
Fucking Y*nkees need to stay right the fuck where they are. It's not as if they can blend in here.
We sure don't need their commie-voting asses in our largest city.
So fuck you, DeBlasio, you fucktard.
I am a died in the wool New Yorker. Born and bred. I love New York. I have to leave it.
I never thought I would say that. But it has changed.
It is indeed two New York's. Not just the rich and the poor. But the producers and the takers. The takers and the elite that have enable them have taken over.
In the past year seven of the Mom and Pop shows that I have shopped in for the past fifty years have closed. They have been replaced the card store and the pork store with a bank and a Sephora and a "Lucky Jeans."
The streets are filled with skinny hipsters and big money yuppies who turn up their noses as the regular people who "serve" them. They would never be friends with the Mexican Deli clerk or the dude from Honduras who delivers Thai food or the UPS guys. They treat them with the casual disdain that de Bllasio treats taxpayers.
It is time to "Escape from New York."
I am currently ruminating about where to go.
Sixty won't let me move to the Carolina's. As he said there is enough Yankees as it is.
So I am thinking Florida. Of course that might mean that Icepick is going to put out a contract on me.
I don't think Texas would work for me.
I mean I love Westerns but I look like a dick in a Cowboy hat.
All power to the baby mamas!
NYC may go to hell and all because the Weiner had to help himself to extreme selfies of the x-rated kind.
It would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic.
I don't get where this supposed clamor for a liberal comes from.
I mean, de Blasio got in because the Weiner could not help himself, or put it another way, had to help himself.
He is the product of circumstance.
Weiner is just as bad as de Blasio. The whole system has just broken down. There will be no relief.
You want to know what the future of New York City will be under de Blasio time?
The recent riot at the Kings Plaza shopping mall is a case in point. Four hundred youtes got together on social media and agreed to meet at the Kings Plaza Mall to go crazy. They ran through the mall stealing and destroying various stands and stores. Getting in pitched battles with the security guards at the bigger stores who pushed them out and put down the metal gates like the were being attacked by the Comanche's or something. Playing the knock out game on the second floor of the mall while they recorded it and put it on youtube.
Guess what?
Not one arrest was made. Not one.
Welcome to de Blasio time.
Welfare used to be called relief. Now we have plenty of it.
With a chance to pick I think people would have picked Weiner.
There is something about de Blasio that just screams... pendejo. I don't know the man, but he just has that deer in the headlight look to him.
The unions must be salivating.
I was last in "cleaned up" NYC in 1999. Prior to that I was there for several months during the Dinkins days in 1979. Talk about a change in perspective! I guess it's "back to the future" now with de Blasio. Jimmy Breslin must be tipping a few extra ones..
Trooper, "come on down!" New Orleans is your kind of town..
To give you an idea of what it has become I can cite another incident that happened outside the Kings Plaza Mall.
A couple was dragged out of their car and beaten with their phones being stolen. The focus of the news reports? One of the teens arrested claims he was innocent and hassled by mistake.
No interview with the victims.
I suppose we should give him a chance... who knows, maybe the foundation established under Giuliani and Bloomberg will hold together.
Could 20 years of good stewardship be undone in 4?
I can't go to New Orleans virgl.
I hate crawfish. Not a gumbo fan either.
Although a good friend of mine has family in a parish right outside the city. Lots of guineas in New Orleans.
You know the biggest lynching of all time was of Mafia guys and innocent spaghetti benders after the police chief got whacked.
Don't tell the local race baiter - he knows otherwise.
Read "Rising Tide" for more information on Italians along the Mississippi.
Lem it will not hold together.
Cops are lazy to begin with and now you give them an excuse to do nothing with the courts banning stop and frisk.
They knew if they stopped an obvious knucklehead that the brass and the mayors office would back them up. Do you think de Blasio would do that or would they throw them to the wolves?
The concern is not with the people who get pulled out of their car and beaten. It is with the youtes who get arrested. They are the only ones with rights.
It is time to leave.
20 years of good stewardship can be undone in a month.
de Blasio is the ultimate liberal. He will bring the liberal attitude and sensibility to government.
Just as Lindsey and Dinkins did before him.
Been there. Done that.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
If you choose Florida make sure to stay away from sinkholes.
Hurricane season is bad enough.
When the riots happened under the Lindsey administration the guys at Crazy Eddie called up the Mafia to have their boys stand in front of their stores with guns and baseball bats.
The Mafia is no more in NYC. Except for the Albanians and the Russians. So it will be free reign the next time people want to "vent."
Hey Lem, if I move their I can put you up for spring training. We can hit all the camps and yell at all the new players on the Sox and the Yankees.
It will be cool.
@Trooper,
As someone who also now grows more alienated from the politics of his environment & a small business owner, I honestly do sympathize with you. For me, when & if I escape, it'll be much easier for me than for you because 1) IT is more transportable & 2) I am a southerner by birth & feel at home there.
Have you considered either 1) Nashville or 2) Atlanta as a place to open up another shop?
Of the two, I think Nashville would be a better fit.
Food trucks are going to be particularly vulnerable.
When we opened our shop there were about seven other stores that opened at the same time. Only one remains in New Orleans and they switched to more lingere and service a lot of the drag queens.
The Nashville shop closed about five years ago.
What we are thinking of doing is franchising our brand. I think we might have something there. We won't have to do the build out or be responsible for employees and such but we could market our clothes which are a proven success. At least that is what I am working on now.
Atlanta would be ripe for a franchise. I have already contacted Nene Leakes.
I have a brother in Florida hes always telling me to go live there.
But Nashiville is an idea. Which one of the Judds is the chubby daughter?
I have to give her a call.
Or maybe Travis Tritt.
I hear he likes to dress up.
I saw a lot of plus sizes in Georgia. north of Atlanta.
Troop. All good things eventually come to an end. When you have a good thing going, naturally blood suckers show up. There are now more blood suckers in NY than immigrants wanting to improve themselves.
When the thought that the weak shall inherit the earth, nobody knew that the welfare recipients were going to do it.
Can't blame Weiner for the outcome.
Even though the headlines scream DeBlasio got 73% of the vote, buried is the fact that there was only a 24% turnout.
You are exactly right Allen.
We had a good run. But when the time comes then the time comes.
You would be foolish not to recognize reality when it pulls you from your car and beats the crap out of you because you are white.
You're a smart man, Troop. You can move your business somewhere else and be just as successful. Oftentimes, a good defense, is your best offense.
Troop, don't know if you're just blowing off steam, but I say let the dead bury the dead. Things will look pretty ugly with no middle class to act as buffer.
Florida seems like a natural with your daughter there, and the weather, of course.
I know Debbie but it is New York that is dead.
The tipping point has come. The middle and working class of all races and ethnicities will be pushed out.
It is truly going to be the very rich and the very poor. No one else will remain.
@Trooper
In the past year seven of the Mom and Pop shows that I have shopped in for the past fifty years have closed. They have been replaced the card store and the pork store with a bank and a Sephora and a "Lucky Jeans."
"Sephora" and "Lucky Jeans" = China.
So true April.
We proudly make all of our clothes in America and only stock accessories that are made in the USA.
Yuppies and hipsters don't give a shit.
"It is truly going to be the very rich and the very poor. No one else will remain."
But Trooper, I thought Deblasio was going to fix that?
Most of my clothes are Made in China. Other than a tiny drop, There isn't an American choice.
I just note that instead of mom and pop shops - consumers seem to want cookie cutter made in China glitz retail. It's like Planet Hollywood or something. I prefer the mom and pop shops.
Blasio & Weiner. What horrible choices. Of course NewYorkers cannot possibly vote for an (R) - that just can't happen. No way icky icky.
NY is as lib as can be, but I wonder if the poor selection kept voters at home?
wait... (I do have a few pairs of NYDJ and a fancy Peruvian sweater not make in China)
Great. Another guy who
requests (demands, requires)
that we (the People)
let him be clear (agree with him)
that it (needlessly pricey, inconvenient, ancient, symbolic lefty ideological goal)
is for our own good (channels funding/satisfaction to cronies/basest of base).
I manufacture only in the US and I am planning to wholesale to an outlet near you. So I hope you will support American jobs for American workers.
I will have labels in the clothing for that effect.
AJ you have to know that de Blasio is a Sandinista. That's all you have to know about him.
The way he wants to level society is to take the money from "The Rich" and give it to the "poor."
The problem is that he sees middle class people as the "rich."
The really wealthy people can just pick up and move. Or have a tax shelter of one sort or another. Or establish residence somewhere else. But a fireman married to a nurse is stuck.
It will not end well.
It's Barry Retread Time.
"The problem is that he sees middle class people as the "rich.""
Ha ha, too bad the middle class people haven't picked up on his nuanced clarity. Guess they haven't let him be clear.
And he doesn't see the middle class as "rich," he sees that that is where the accessible money is located.
Not to worry, the jobs that the horses used to do will be done by humans, which ones will be determined later.
Any more specifics on how he intends to reduce inequality?
It's just a bad sign that he seems to be a PETA pussy on top of everything else. He'll probably get rid of mounted police, too.
What would McCloud do?
His real hidden reason is probably that he thinks anything equestrian is too white. Again, it will be interesting to watch if this retard lasts.
I do feel bad for people like Troop who didn't vote for this or bring this upon themselves. Just like not every California voted for the mess in Sacramento.
There are too many envious pricks in America and they tend to vote for dumbass socialists like Obama and Deblasio.
So sorry for you guys Troop. Wonder what the reaction of the race baiters will be when the bodies start piling up (more than under stop and frisk that is)? Sounds like a perfect setup for the cops to be the fall guys. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.
I'm wondering what country I can move to.
In his inauguaration speech, he thanked Bill Clinton, Hillary, Bloomberg, Dinkins, his wife, his extended family, and fellow New Yorkers.
The thanks to Dinkins started with this: "Thank you, Mayor Dinkins, for starting us on the road to a safer city"; surreal. Just couldn't bring himself to mention Guiliani or Ray Kelly who actually made it happen.
The guy's a first-class jerk. Poor NYC.
The thing I don't get about de Blasio's election is this: With the millions of people living in NYC, was there not ONE conservative to run against him?
Not a one.
Joe Lhota was the closest thing to a conservative they could dish up. He ran a great commercial that showed exactly what NYC will become under de Blasio.
It didn't matter.
The tipping point has come. There is no going back.
The tipping point has come. There is no going back.
The financial center will be dispersed (driven offshore or to HK) and then the game is up.
Pogo said...
I'm wondering what country I can move to.
BHO will probably pick Hawaii, after the kids leave the nest.
NYC seems to think that they've got a lock on the financial services industry. One thing 9-11 proved to the industry was that it was a really bad idea to have all its eggs in one basket, and they have diversified to some extent.
If Wall Street wants to move, there's no shortage of states or countries that'll bid to get them. And the employees who don't want to move? There's lots of guys who would love to have those jobs.
If NYC loses Wall Street, tax base-wise, they're toast. Think it can't happen? Remember how much aerospace industry California used to have?
I've never seen the appeal of New York as a place to live or work, so this doesn't really affect me.
I've never seen the appeal of New York as a place to live or work, so this doesn't really affect me.
I've long felt the same about Washington, D.C.
New Mexico.
The seeds of this were sown long, long ago. Half of what Guiliani and Bloomberg did was pave a yellow brick road for de Blasio.
Troop-
"What we are thinking of doing is franchising our brand. I think we might have something there. We won't have to do the build out or be responsible for employees and such but we could market our clothes which are a proven success. At least that is what I am working on now."
Let me know if you need branding/advertising help. I run a virtual agency with a partner. We have no physical office space so you don't have to pay for electricity and receptionists. You pay for ideas - and we have a lot of them.
Thanks.
I am a died in the wool New Yorker. Born and bred. I love New York. I have to leave it.
I never thought I would say that. But it has changed.
It is indeed two New York's. Not just the rich and the poor. But the producers and the takers. The takers and the elite that have enable them have taken over.
I thought of you, Trooper, when I posted a comment over at Insty about this.
The middle class, working stiffs and the small business owners will be taking it up the wazzoo. Even worse than before.
You are lucky in that your business can be done from anywhere. Your clients will come to you and the internet is your friend. The cost of doing business will be even less in some areas. You will miss all the NYC stuff, great restaurants and the neighborhood feeling. BUT...you can find some of that in other places. Life is full of trade offs
Dumbplumber and I would love to get out of Californicate to a sane area. Unfortunately, we can't move because OUR clients are tied to the land, so to speak. Wells, pumps, water systems. We are too old to try to start all over and build a new business and compete with a locally established company. So we just bite the bullet, stay where we are. At least we are in the most "Red" and conservative area of the state and the libtards only come to visit occasionally and to stare at the scenery.
After I read my last post to him,Dumbplumber just offered this bit of advice to Trooper
"Don't worry about missing New York because in a short while it won't be the same. You won't recognize it. Those great restaurants will be gone as other small businesses leave. You won't be the only one going. All that will be left are Elite restaurants and the rest of you guys will have soup kitchens."
I'm wondering what country I can move to.
Uruguay is very nice. If we had the ability we would be there in a heartbeat.
Trooper should look into Arkansas. Rock Springs and the northern part of the State.
Palladian said...
The seeds of this were sown long, long ago. Half of what Guiliani and Bloomberg did was pave a yellow brick road for de Blasio.
Please elaborate a bit on this theory to this non-New Yorker, although at one time a frequent visitor for business and theater. It seemed to me that NYC got safer over the years of the terms you cite.
Aridog, I haven't the faculties to fully elaborate, but in part it was the enormous apparatus of central control partially constructed during Guiliani's tenure, then strengthened and expanded by Bloomberg, that provided the tools to both build and break. And they both, in their own way, helped to build a completely unappealing facsimile of New York that neither the wreckers nor the builders care to defend.
Trooper York....from your post at January 1, 2014 at 3:57 PM, the emotional sensation I've felt is one of melancholy. I'm sure my image of NYC is half illusion at least. The small neighborhood shops were all fascinating. Never wanted to live there, but always took every opportunity to visit.
I've never been a New Yorker, but as I stated earlier, have been a frequent visitor over the years beginning in 1964 when I went to the World's Fair. I've loved the time there, the small shops in Queens and Brooklyn, and restaurants everywhere, big and small. NYC for me was where you went to eat the best the world has to offer....and my experience was that, contrary to some reputation, New Yorkers, as diverse as they are, were very friendly and willing to point things out to you.
On most trips up trough the 90's, I stayed at the Essex House on South Central Park because that was where business took me and from there traveled by cab hither and yon, usually making a two day business trip in to an extended 4-5, with 3 purely personal, day trip to mostly eat and go to theater.
If this NYC world is changed or changing as we speak, as you seem to be saying it is...then we are losing one of our national treasures...and don't mean just Wall Street. I've been to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and as far north in CA as Santa Rosa on up to Red Bluff. Absolutely none of those locations held a candle to NYC in my eyes.
I admit I am or was naive on the subject of NYC, but I never had a trip there that wasn't pure joy.
Palladian wrote: The seeds of this were sown long, long ago. Half of what Guiliani and Bloomberg did was pave a yellow brick road for de Blasio.
Guilliani and Bloomberg amplified the whole "strong mayor" idea -- the idea that the city's problems could be best addressed by one person. Maybe that's part of the problem, much as it is at a national level. Call it "trickledown authority."
Let the radical marxist leftism begin. Let's see how much deeper the decay of NYC gets.
"We are going to get rid of horse carriages, period," de Blasio said at a news conference Monday, saying that the practice is inhumane."
"Period."
Barry Retread can't even make up his own verbal tics.
I am watching the "Stop and Frisk" Press conference with Hugo de Blasio and that quisling Bratton.
It's not good. In fact it is very, very bad.
The New York that people are enjoying now will be gone soon. We will be back to the roving wolf packs that are a feature of places like Chicago and Milwaukee and the Kings Plaza Mall.
Winter is here.
Trooper, you're a friend. I would never put out on a contract on a friend. I would just kill you myself. It's a respect thing.
But a fireman married to a nurse is stuck.
No, a fireman married to a nurse is a couple sucking at the government tit, one way or another. Check out the fireman's salary and benefits, especially on the pension side. Check out the number of building and fires in places like Chicago versus the number of fireman over time. It can be enlightening.
And the nurse is in a field where somewhere between fifty to seventy percent (figures vary) of all spending comes through the government, through Medicare and Medicaid, the VA, government employees and their families health coverage, etc.
Rent seekers both, though neither is likely to either know the term or understand that it applies to THEM.
No, most liberal schemes to redistribute wealth take from the top 1% (when they get lucky) and distribute it to the 1% thru 10% (one way or another), and also take from the 50% to the 90% group to redistribute back to those in the 1% to 10% realm. Some crumbs get thrown to the masses, but the real skim goes to the people in the government and in fields closely allied to the government. It's all about the skim, as any gangster can tell you. And man, what a revenue stream the government can skim from!
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