grafiti and squeegie guys are both on the rise under deblasio.
Weird that even bloomberg kept them in check, but Deblasio can't
edit: worse from what we learned during the shoot-up-bleach distraction- it takes 90 seconds of modest UV light to sanitize a surface. Should take 5-10 minutes to sanitize a subway car
I believe Bloomberg only ran to torpedo Bernie...no one else wanted to call Bernie out as being a rich socialist, that would have pissed off the Bernie bros, so Bloomberg took that hit and every other candidate rallied their supporters behind Biden, all the minority groups, Warren had the women, Kamala had the blacks, Buttigeg had the gays
I am a jersey guy who worked in the city back in the days of Bloomy and Rudy. Bloomberg outside of his stupid assed soda tax kept the place clean and tidy, everything was funded right and there was law and order.
My gripe with him was when he was on the city council, and Rudy was mayor, Bloomy blocked a 3rd term for our guy, Then when he became mayor, he got himself a 3rd term by changing the rules. Rules he did not want to change earlier because he wanted to run
He dumped a metric fuckton of money into the election too, way more than some of the presidential candidates spent.
He is a fuckface, but my opinion of him as a mayor is a 6 out of 10. He wasn't awful. but he had his flaws. Any New Yorker who remember David Dinkins can have a reference to what bad really is.
Very true. Apart from the crazy shit -- extreme hoplophobia (though there were no changes to the relevant laws during his tenure), and crazy schemes like banning large sodas, and attempting to ban smoking even inside apartments in private coop buildings -- he displayed some impressive Trump-like executive action skills. His handling of the December 2005 transit strike was masterful.
The immediate implementation of an efficient, easy-to-understand emergency transportation plan was definitely a huge factor in bringing the strike to a lightning-fast end, with all service back up and running in less than 72 hours. I was living and working in Manhattan at the time, and have fond memories of my commutes during the short-lived strike.
Underneath his outer coating of hoplophobia and nanny-stating, there's a damn smart capitalist. I really think his extreme hoplophobia must be rooted in some early personal tragedy -- close childhood friend getting killed by another kid playing with a gun, or something like that. It's just totally irrational.
Literally everyone I know from NYC (which is quite a lot, both R and D) all couldn't STAND Bloomberg. Granted, they (both sides) hate DeBlasio even more, but bloomberg was not a good mayor
I had to learn about the various sterilization methods and all of them except heat fail on dirty surfaces. You can't sterilize what the sterilant can't reach.
I got chills reading De Blasio’s bio. Fucking communist sympathetic parents, he volunteered for the Sandarista commies down in Nicaragua, and got his start under democratic socialist NYC mayor Dinkey doo. Married a self described lesbian activist. What an absolute fucking confused fool of a man. These are the types of people we are elected to positions of power? Jesus Christ.
He said this about property in NYC: He volunteered for the Nicaraguans and was a supporter of the Sandinista National liberation front.
He worked under NYC mayor David Dinkins who is a Democrat socialist.
He said this about New York City housing “ I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents.”
He wants the government to "determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed."
Typically housing costs are too high because the government can't get out of the way of more housing being built. This man wants to increase everyone's cost of living by putting more government in the way.
I deal extensively with permitting bureaucracy. The levels of ignorance and stupidity would astound you, and the levels of self-importance and petty power moves would infuriate you.
I lived in the Toronto area for a while and I know most prominent example I refer to is a story of a 3 story walk up who had a good bit of land. Enough land to build a 20-30 storey high rise. So a developer offered to buy the walk up, gut the 1st floor into an office/lobby, and build an additional 20+ floors ontop of the existing walk up. The architects felt the historic outdoor look would make a good outward image to the building. Some cunts complained that their 1.5M dollar single family home had it's view of the CN tower blocked. So what happened? legal fights and a leftist council made the developers say fuck it and moved their money outside the city. And a few hundred people could've been housed in that.
Another issue with all the regulations is it makes housing too expensive because the only houses that can be made profitable are luxury housing. The ammenities make the building too expensive for regular working folks to afford so it just turns into a parking spot for foreign money.
The amount that uninvolved people complain is astounding. I watched an entire county shut down development because one asshole complained that the base boards in his newly bought, cheaply built, mass produced home was too far off the floor.
The worst is when unelected bureaucrats decide they don't want to permit your project. At least most places I deal with have controls to keep you out of permit purgatory.
It’s by design. They do it under the guise of equality and raising the level of the “poor” to the level of the middle class. The problem is they don’t even attempt to do it through means that have been tried and proven. They only do it through theft and wealth redistribution which never works(they know this) because it only reinforces the bad habits of most of the “poor” in this country while attempting to drag down responsible and self reliant people. The lefts end game is to keep the permanent slave class they have created while adding to it through artificial means and also making it as hard as possible to rise out of it. It’s truly devious and disgusting.
I came here to type "everything the left touches turns to shit" and this is the first post I see hahaha. The part where you're even more correct is "by design". We need to wake up and realize that people are not incompetent but truly evil and sociopathic
Democrats turn everything they touch into a shithole...by design.
grafiti and squeegie guys are both on the rise under deblasio.
Weird that even bloomberg kept them in check, but Deblasio can't
edit: worse from what we learned during the shoot-up-bleach distraction- it takes 90 seconds of modest UV light to sanitize a surface. Should take 5-10 minutes to sanitize a subway car
Bloomberg was an excellent mayor. No joke, he really was.
Bloomberg was the most legit candidate they had to run against Trump....and they railroaded him.
I believe Bloomberg only ran to torpedo Bernie...no one else wanted to call Bernie out as being a rich socialist, that would have pissed off the Bernie bros, so Bloomberg took that hit and every other candidate rallied their supporters behind Biden, all the minority groups, Warren had the women, Kamala had the blacks, Buttigeg had the gays
They subwayed him.
I am a jersey guy who worked in the city back in the days of Bloomy and Rudy. Bloomberg outside of his stupid assed soda tax kept the place clean and tidy, everything was funded right and there was law and order.
My gripe with him was when he was on the city council, and Rudy was mayor, Bloomy blocked a 3rd term for our guy, Then when he became mayor, he got himself a 3rd term by changing the rules. Rules he did not want to change earlier because he wanted to run
He dumped a metric fuckton of money into the election too, way more than some of the presidential candidates spent.
He is a fuckface, but my opinion of him as a mayor is a 6 out of 10. He wasn't awful. but he had his flaws. Any New Yorker who remember David Dinkins can have a reference to what bad really is.
Comrade DeBlasio is really rivaling Dinkins these days. City has been turning back into the shithole it was for the past few years.
Very true. Apart from the crazy shit -- extreme hoplophobia (though there were no changes to the relevant laws during his tenure), and crazy schemes like banning large sodas, and attempting to ban smoking even inside apartments in private coop buildings -- he displayed some impressive Trump-like executive action skills. His handling of the December 2005 transit strike was masterful.
The immediate implementation of an efficient, easy-to-understand emergency transportation plan was definitely a huge factor in bringing the strike to a lightning-fast end, with all service back up and running in less than 72 hours. I was living and working in Manhattan at the time, and have fond memories of my commutes during the short-lived strike.
Underneath his outer coating of hoplophobia and nanny-stating, there's a damn smart capitalist. I really think his extreme hoplophobia must be rooted in some early personal tragedy -- close childhood friend getting killed by another kid playing with a gun, or something like that. It's just totally irrational.
Agreed. He made a big difference when he was mayor. DeBlasio is a clown.
Literally everyone I know from NYC (which is quite a lot, both R and D) all couldn't STAND Bloomberg. Granted, they (both sides) hate DeBlasio even more, but bloomberg was not a good mayor
Tbf, it used to be MUCH worse. And they weren't trying to sell you anything.
UV light doesn't do much for puddles of urine. And that's being nice about it. The subways are rolling flophouses at this point.
I had to learn about the various sterilization methods and all of them except heat fail on dirty surfaces. You can't sterilize what the sterilant can't reach.
there are teams of people who wipe down the cars with cleaning products; where did they say that only a UV lamp is being used?
Wilhelm isn't even trying to keep them in check.
I got chills reading De Blasio’s bio. Fucking communist sympathetic parents, he volunteered for the Sandarista commies down in Nicaragua, and got his start under democratic socialist NYC mayor Dinkey doo. Married a self described lesbian activist. What an absolute fucking confused fool of a man. These are the types of people we are elected to positions of power? Jesus Christ.
He said this about property in NYC: He volunteered for the Nicaraguans and was a supporter of the Sandinista National liberation front.
He worked under NYC mayor David Dinkins who is a Democrat socialist.
He said this about New York City housing “ I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents.”
He wants the government to "determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed."
Typically housing costs are too high because the government can't get out of the way of more housing being built. This man wants to increase everyone's cost of living by putting more government in the way.
I deal extensively with permitting bureaucracy. The levels of ignorance and stupidity would astound you, and the levels of self-importance and petty power moves would infuriate you.
Dude do I hear you! PREACH!
I lived in the Toronto area for a while and I know most prominent example I refer to is a story of a 3 story walk up who had a good bit of land. Enough land to build a 20-30 storey high rise. So a developer offered to buy the walk up, gut the 1st floor into an office/lobby, and build an additional 20+ floors ontop of the existing walk up. The architects felt the historic outdoor look would make a good outward image to the building. Some cunts complained that their 1.5M dollar single family home had it's view of the CN tower blocked. So what happened? legal fights and a leftist council made the developers say fuck it and moved their money outside the city. And a few hundred people could've been housed in that.
Another issue with all the regulations is it makes housing too expensive because the only houses that can be made profitable are luxury housing. The ammenities make the building too expensive for regular working folks to afford so it just turns into a parking spot for foreign money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
Here's another great example.
The amount that uninvolved people complain is astounding. I watched an entire county shut down development because one asshole complained that the base boards in his newly bought, cheaply built, mass produced home was too far off the floor.
The worst is when unelected bureaucrats decide they don't want to permit your project. At least most places I deal with have controls to keep you out of permit purgatory.
Comrade Bill deBlasio is a total disgrace to the city.
fuck everything up then brainwash you into believing that they're the only ones who can fix it and if you get rid of them it'll be way worse
It’s by design. They do it under the guise of equality and raising the level of the “poor” to the level of the middle class. The problem is they don’t even attempt to do it through means that have been tried and proven. They only do it through theft and wealth redistribution which never works(they know this) because it only reinforces the bad habits of most of the “poor” in this country while attempting to drag down responsible and self reliant people. The lefts end game is to keep the permanent slave class they have created while adding to it through artificial means and also making it as hard as possible to rise out of it. It’s truly devious and disgusting.
I came here to type "everything the left touches turns to shit" and this is the first post I see hahaha. The part where you're even more correct is "by design". We need to wake up and realize that people are not incompetent but truly evil and sociopathic