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The Impending Death of a Great City (and I Don’t Mean Detroit)
Tea Party Nation
Robert J. Mack
1/2/2014
Excerpt:
There are vultures circling around New York City, just waiting for a great city to die so that they can pick over the bones. With the departure of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the ascendancy of Mayor de Blasio, and the decades of frustration concerning income redistribution (also known as communism), the loony Left (also known as New York City’s Democrat and Liberal Parties) is poised to ruin a great city in the name of “equality and social justice.” In the past, Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg held the Democrat/Liberal crazies at bay, one through political maneuvering and the other through political maneuvering and his bank account. They also succeeded in rescuing New York from the depths of despair because of rising crime rates and fiscal irresponsibility. John Lindsay, Abe Beame, and David Dinkins, all previous mayors, were incompetent to say the least about their stewardship of New York City’s survival and prosperity. Just to get an idea of the insanity regarding fiscal solvency, both the Lindsay and Beame administrations counted what they thought they would get from the federal government as income for the next year’s budget. And as much as I liked Ed Koch, and even though he tried to be fiscally sound and competent, he was hamstrung by his Democrat colleagues, many of whom were corrupt. Ed wasn’t corrupt, but he was a self-professed “liberal with sanity.” It’s just that Ed’s version of sanity lost its appeal to the city’s progressives and evaporated from the electorate as well because in 1990 they elected David Dinkins who was a disaster, the Crown Heights riot during his watch just one of his failures.
New York City will soon lose its identity as an independent, successful, and charitable place because it will eventually be either taken over by the federal government or allowed to fail, forcing it to be dependent on the largess of government, antagonistic to business, and less than charitable. It will become the Detroit of the East Coast. Remember those vultures I alluded to, well they are a metaphor for federal government control. Once newly minted Mayor de Blasio fails at balancing the city’s budget (and he will because companies will exit in droves when corporate tax rates rise), he will invariably ask for help from New York State, and when Governor Cuomo denies his request (no money in the state coffers either), he will go hat in hand to Washington D.C.
No matter who controls the Congress and the White House at that point, de Blasio will be between a rock and a hard place. If his party controls things in D.C., then there will be all kinds of federal controls put in place to “save” the city, which will not work. If the Republicans preside over power, then they will allow de Blasio to twist in the wind. Either way, the mayor will be screwed by the feds, and he doesn’t have the mental acuity to think that using capitalism to attract companies, such as reduced corporate and individual taxes, would result in an increased tax base and would get him out of his fiscal predicament. He is a Marxist, after all, as he once described himself.
In addition to the fiscal dilemma that New York City faces, there is the looming tragedy of a rapid increase in crime rates. De Blasio ran for mayor on the promise that he would eliminate the stop and frisk procedures from policing the city. New York City has had phenomenal success at reducing crime rates due in large part to the stop and frisk policy. As part of the “broken windows” strategy of policing, advocated by Giuliani and Bloomberg, developed by NYC Deputy Commissioner and policing icon Jack Maple, and implemented by their police commissioners, namely Bill Bratton, Howard Safir, and Ray Kelly, New York City has for a number of years been the safest large city in America. Just to give an idea of how safe, look at the number of murders: for 2013, the number of homicides in the city came in at 333, the lowest number for that statistic ever in the city since 1962 when reliable records began; New York’s current rate of 2.9 murders per 100,000 people would have placed it fourth in 2012 among the 74 U.S. cities with populations of at least 250,000; only Plano, Texas (with a 0.4 murder rate), Lincoln, Nebraska (1.1), and Henderson, Nevada (1.4), were safer, according to the 2012 FBI crime statistics; by contrast, the most murderous U.S. city in 2012 was, you guessed it, Detroit, with 54 murders per 100,000 people.
All of that success could be wiped out in a few years if stop and frisk is eliminated or disemboweled through legal suits. When asked by NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory in August of 2013 whether “people will die” if stop and frisk is abandoned, Kelly responded: “No question about it, violent crime will go up. This is something that's integral to policing. This happens throughout America in any police jurisdiction. You have to do it. Officers have to have the right of inquiry if they see some suspicious behavior. So I can assure you, this is not just a New York City issue, it's an issue throughout America. And this case [a suit to eliminate stop and frisk that was initially upheld] has to be appealed [that appeal by the city was upheld, thankfully, by a federal court], in my judgment, because it will be taken as a template and have significant impact in policing throughout America.” Considering this analysis by the best police commissioner in America, it is incomprehensible why Bill Bratton would agree to become police commissioner for Mayor de Blasio with the knowledge that the mayor will do everything in his power to erode stop and frisk. Bratton should know better. My guess is that he will have a falling out with the mayor very quickly and will resign.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.teapartynation.com/profil...t-mean-detroit
Tea Party Nation
Robert J. Mack
1/2/2014
Excerpt:
There are vultures circling around New York City, just waiting for a great city to die so that they can pick over the bones. With the departure of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the ascendancy of Mayor de Blasio, and the decades of frustration concerning income redistribution (also known as communism), the loony Left (also known as New York City’s Democrat and Liberal Parties) is poised to ruin a great city in the name of “equality and social justice.” In the past, Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg held the Democrat/Liberal crazies at bay, one through political maneuvering and the other through political maneuvering and his bank account. They also succeeded in rescuing New York from the depths of despair because of rising crime rates and fiscal irresponsibility. John Lindsay, Abe Beame, and David Dinkins, all previous mayors, were incompetent to say the least about their stewardship of New York City’s survival and prosperity. Just to get an idea of the insanity regarding fiscal solvency, both the Lindsay and Beame administrations counted what they thought they would get from the federal government as income for the next year’s budget. And as much as I liked Ed Koch, and even though he tried to be fiscally sound and competent, he was hamstrung by his Democrat colleagues, many of whom were corrupt. Ed wasn’t corrupt, but he was a self-professed “liberal with sanity.” It’s just that Ed’s version of sanity lost its appeal to the city’s progressives and evaporated from the electorate as well because in 1990 they elected David Dinkins who was a disaster, the Crown Heights riot during his watch just one of his failures.
New York City will soon lose its identity as an independent, successful, and charitable place because it will eventually be either taken over by the federal government or allowed to fail, forcing it to be dependent on the largess of government, antagonistic to business, and less than charitable. It will become the Detroit of the East Coast. Remember those vultures I alluded to, well they are a metaphor for federal government control. Once newly minted Mayor de Blasio fails at balancing the city’s budget (and he will because companies will exit in droves when corporate tax rates rise), he will invariably ask for help from New York State, and when Governor Cuomo denies his request (no money in the state coffers either), he will go hat in hand to Washington D.C.
No matter who controls the Congress and the White House at that point, de Blasio will be between a rock and a hard place. If his party controls things in D.C., then there will be all kinds of federal controls put in place to “save” the city, which will not work. If the Republicans preside over power, then they will allow de Blasio to twist in the wind. Either way, the mayor will be screwed by the feds, and he doesn’t have the mental acuity to think that using capitalism to attract companies, such as reduced corporate and individual taxes, would result in an increased tax base and would get him out of his fiscal predicament. He is a Marxist, after all, as he once described himself.
In addition to the fiscal dilemma that New York City faces, there is the looming tragedy of a rapid increase in crime rates. De Blasio ran for mayor on the promise that he would eliminate the stop and frisk procedures from policing the city. New York City has had phenomenal success at reducing crime rates due in large part to the stop and frisk policy. As part of the “broken windows” strategy of policing, advocated by Giuliani and Bloomberg, developed by NYC Deputy Commissioner and policing icon Jack Maple, and implemented by their police commissioners, namely Bill Bratton, Howard Safir, and Ray Kelly, New York City has for a number of years been the safest large city in America. Just to give an idea of how safe, look at the number of murders: for 2013, the number of homicides in the city came in at 333, the lowest number for that statistic ever in the city since 1962 when reliable records began; New York’s current rate of 2.9 murders per 100,000 people would have placed it fourth in 2012 among the 74 U.S. cities with populations of at least 250,000; only Plano, Texas (with a 0.4 murder rate), Lincoln, Nebraska (1.1), and Henderson, Nevada (1.4), were safer, according to the 2012 FBI crime statistics; by contrast, the most murderous U.S. city in 2012 was, you guessed it, Detroit, with 54 murders per 100,000 people.
All of that success could be wiped out in a few years if stop and frisk is eliminated or disemboweled through legal suits. When asked by NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory in August of 2013 whether “people will die” if stop and frisk is abandoned, Kelly responded: “No question about it, violent crime will go up. This is something that's integral to policing. This happens throughout America in any police jurisdiction. You have to do it. Officers have to have the right of inquiry if they see some suspicious behavior. So I can assure you, this is not just a New York City issue, it's an issue throughout America. And this case [a suit to eliminate stop and frisk that was initially upheld] has to be appealed [that appeal by the city was upheld, thankfully, by a federal court], in my judgment, because it will be taken as a template and have significant impact in policing throughout America.” Considering this analysis by the best police commissioner in America, it is incomprehensible why Bill Bratton would agree to become police commissioner for Mayor de Blasio with the knowledge that the mayor will do everything in his power to erode stop and frisk. Bratton should know better. My guess is that he will have a falling out with the mayor very quickly and will resign.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.teapartynation.com/profil...t-mean-detroit