Progressives’ dreams will send New York right back to ‘70s blight
https://nypost.com/2020/06/04/progressives-dreams-will-send-new-york-right-back-to-70s-blight/In 1974, a great movie called “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” featured the hijacking of a subway car. The crooks demand a million-dollar ransom from New York City. “Goddamit,” yells the mayor, “this city doesn’t have a million dollars!”
No one-liner was ever so prophetic. The following year, in mid-October 1975, New York City owed its creditors a payment of $453 million — and had exactly $34 million on hand the day before the bill came due.
Yes, this nation’s largest city had the equivalent of two quarters and some lint in its collective pocket when the bill collector came to call.
What I’m saying is we’ve seen this movie before. And we could be heading for a remake.
Before the riots and looting of the past week, New Yorkers were facing existential questions about their continued residence in the city going forward. Primarily this: How can we stay here when the compensating pleasures of a life lived in crowds might be putting us and our families in danger?
Progressives/Socialists/Leftists are running New York City into the ground. It is like the 1970s all over again.
No matter. Julia Salazar, a self-described socialist state senator representing Brooklyn, is thrilled by the prospect of slashing police budgets.
“To see legislators who aren’t even necessarily on the left supporting at least a significant decrease in New York Police Department funding is really very encouraging,” she told The Guardian.
It’s encouraging if you know nothing about history.
The same leftists that say police are socialist. Right?
