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Mamdani has a stack of problems as high as the filthy piles of trash that have taken up residence in the snow for the last two weeks.
One of those glaring issues is a looming $12 billion budget deficit in the next two years. As City Comptroller Mark Levine’s numbers indicated: We don’t have a revenue problem — we have a spending problem.
Most leaders in that position would say we need to tighten our belts and be more judicious about how we use our resources. Maybe cut some non-essential services.
But our new Mayor is not most leaders. He’s the smiling socialist, who is extremely generous. With other people’s money.
Instead, Mamdani is advertising all the free stuff he has to give away and inviting more and more people — regardless of their immigration status — to feast from the government trough.
He’s on the porch ringing the triangle, yelling “come and get it.”
Because, hey, “tax the rich” will sort it all out, amiright?
In Mamdani’s New York, no money, no legal immigration status, no problem.
Last week, he announced his universal childcare will take in every child, even if they aren’t here legally.
“Just to put it very clearly, these are programs for every single New Yorker,” Mamdani said.
“These are not programs that are going to ask the immigration status of any one of the children. All of those children are New Yorkers.”
On Wednesday, he turned his attention to the Haitians whose Temporary Protected status was ended by the Trump administration, only to have that decision blocked by a judge.
In a video posted on X, he addressed “our Haitian neighbors” who are “stuck in legal limbo” as the inevitable tug of war plays out, saying, “You deserve stability and safety. And New York City stands with you.”
“As the fight over Temporary Protected Status continues, we encourage anyone with TPS to use the city’s free immigration legal support and explore every legal pathway available,” he wrote, adding the number to call for gratis legal help.
Mamdani doesn’t seem to care much about the boring details of running the city as we try to climb out of a whopper of a storm and a cold snap that killed 17 homeless people. He spends a lot of time filming cutesy videos and cheering for anyone who might score some points against President Trump.
Just like he has made a huge stink of standing by pro-Palestinian activist and agitator Mahmoud Khalil and a Venezuelan city council staffer who was arrested by ICE.
As for his universal childcare, he is “encouraging everyone to apply, to see themselves as a part of, and to know that we are going to use every single law that we have here to protect the health and safety of everyone who signs up.”
When you offer people free stuff, they will flock to it.
Hey, what could go wrong?
Remember the hundreds of thousands of migrants who came to the Big Apple during the Adams administration, when the city was offering them shelter and even pre-paid debit cards?
Hotels were so packed with migrants, tourists couldn’t get rooms in midtown and the city was forking out millions to feed and even provide security as their asylum claims were processed.
It was a terrible strain on our already strained system and a slap in the face to all regular New Yorkers struggling to get by.
In total, the migrant crisis cost the city about $5 billion in 2023 and 2024.
That should have been a hard lesson in restraint, but instead it was a blueprint for this Democratic Socialist, who promised everything from free buses to government run discount grocery stores.
Meanwhile, he’s planning to phase out the gifted and talented programs in kindergarten in the name of anti-racism. Even though the programs have helped many poor minority kids find a pathway to meaningful success.
Mamdani doesn’t want to make the city more affordable or lift people out of poverty to create wealth of their own. He wants to make people more dependent on the government and flip the power dynamic.
He wants to penalize the wealthy and redistribute their money. But his agenda won’t stop at taxing the rich. Even his new tenant advocate Cea Weaver has villainized the middle class, railing against home ownership.
Yes, the warmth of collectivism comes from the DSA led government’s sweaty hands slipping into your wallet to take all it wants.
Because somebody has to pay for all the free stuff.
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