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It’s not migrants — saving New York
City requires union concessions

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Posted By: FlyRight, 11/27/2023 4:51:12 AM

When the public complains about announced cuts to police protection and garbage collection, Mayor Adams weasels back, “Don’t yell at me, yell at DC.” Adams is trying to shift the blame to President Biden and the Democrats’ open-border policy. Don’t fall for it. The surge of migrants accounts for less than half (42%) of the city’s looming fiscal crisis. New York was heading off a fiscal cliff before the surge. Adams’ predecessor, spendaholic Bill de Blasio, is partly to blame. But Adams worsened the crisis by negotiating insane labor contracts — especially with the teachers union — that the city cannot afford.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 11/27/2023 8:23:36 AM (No. 1605668)
Union concessions......LOL! Time and time again in the last 50+ years unions have literally destroyed entire industries rather than make concessions. American steel industry? How many other industries were destroyed because "I want more money" prevented them from seeing that "more money" demands would absolutely equal NO MONEY as the company, and then the whole industrial sector just dried up and blew away, and/or moved to a foreign country. Unions destroy. This is their history. Why would it be any different now?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mifla 11/27/2023 8:36:15 AM (No. 1605677)
New York is dying on the vine. People who can are leaving, no one wants to be a cop, crime is driving out businesses, and immigrants have their hand out. Taxes will continue to rise after more and more people/businesses leave. One stupid Dem policy after another.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 11/27/2023 8:58:01 AM (No. 1605692)
Only if the voters wake up and start voting like responsible adults in a free society is there any hope. The rest is all window dressing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: janjan 11/27/2023 9:48:49 AM (No. 1605724)
Eric Adams is a mental lightweight without the skill sets or the fortitude to lift NYC out of the gutter. He ran as the affable black ex-cop who would bring law and order back to the city. Instead, policing fell to a very low priority as Adams quickly learned how to soak up the perks and ingratiate himself with the liberal elites who are the sources of the problems. Alas, power corrupts, and without a firm foundation the rot spreads rapidly. The voters can choose to stop this train. Or not. The rest of the country has ceased to care.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 11/27/2023 11:15:15 AM (No. 1605783)
#1 says it all and completely. Nothing to add.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mc squared 11/27/2023 12:28:30 PM (No. 1605841)
Wrong track, of course, but to say 42% spending (cost of illegal immigrants) of the city's deficits is insignificant misses an important point.
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