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De Blasio Plans to Destroy New York City: ‘We Won’t Wait. We’ll Do It Now.’

Posted on | January 5, 2014 | 23 Comments

“A dystopia straight out of Snake Plissken’s worst nightmares.”

Steve Sailer is so politically incorrect that you’re never supposed to acknowledge his existence, lest you become radioactive yourself. While I’ve forgotten what specific transgression put Sailer into the Toxic Zone, I vaguely recall it had something to do with seriously attempting to apply The Bell Curve to public policy. You’re not allowed to do that. Nobody is supposed to acknowledge reading The Bell Curve, except to denounce it as crypto-Nazi propaganda.

Anyway, someone re-Tweeted a Sailer item mocking newly-inaugurated Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan for universal pre-kindergarten:

If universal pre-K works as well as the new mayor promises at reducing income inequality, its effects should be statistically noticeable by the 2040s, and be visible to the naked eye by the 2060s. By 2075, universal pre-K’s effectiveness at fighting income inequality should be undeniable.
Are we really ready for social change that’s that radical and fast-moving?

Certainly, de Blasio’s agenda deserves all the mockery it gets. Here’s an excerpt of the new mayor’s inaugural address:

We will require big developers to build more affordable housing. We’ll fight to stem the tide of hospital closures. And we’ll expand community health centers into neighborhoods in need, so that New Yorkers see our city not as the exclusive domain of the One Percent, but a place where everyday people can afford to live, work, and raise a family. We won’t wait. We’ll do it now.
We will reform a broken stop-and-frisk policy, both to protect the dignity and rights of young men of color, and to give our brave police officers the partnership they need to continue their success in driving down crime. We won’t wait. We’ll do it now.
We will ask the very wealthy to pay a little more in taxes so that we can offer full-day universal pre-K and after-school programs for every middle school student. And when we say “a little more,” we can rightly emphasize the “little.”
Those earning between $500,000 and one million dollars a year, for instance, would see their taxes increase by an average of $973 a year. That’s less than three bucks a day – about the cost of a small soy latte at your local Starbucks.
Think about it. A five-year tax on the wealthiest among us – with every dollar dedicated to pre-K and after-school. Asking those at the top to help our kids get on the right path and stay there. That’s our mission. And on that, we will not wait. We will do it now.

“That thou doest, do quickly.”

Every policy in Bill de Blasio’s agenda will contribute to New York City’s destruction, and the more quickly his agenda is implemented, the sooner the destructive effects will be evident. It’s so obvious, even a Harvard graduate can see it:

De Blasio’s signature proposal, universal pre-K, is a more ambiguous case. Most research indicates that early childhood education doesn’t have the benefits to children’s prospects that its advocates suggest. But it’s possible the program could increase the [economic] mobility of parents, by lowering costs and stress for two-earner and single-parent households.
But there’s also a pessimistic scenario, in which the growing cost of New York’s existing welfare state means that de Blasio’s crusade ultimately just devolves into interest-group featherbedding, in which the rich are squeezed to benefit a well-compensated public sector and preserve bureaucracies that ought to be reformed.

What Ross Douthat calls a “pessimistic scenario” is in fact the only possible outcome. “Universal pre-K” simply means expansion of the city’s bloated and corrupt public school bureaucracy.

“Since 2002, starting salaries for NYC public school teachers have increased 43%.” A teacher fresh out of college is paid $45,530 a year and, after five years, receives an annual base salary of $64,006. “Teachers can earn additional income from after-school, weekend, or summer school employment. This work is paid at a contractual rate which is currently $41.98 per hour.” Implementing universal pre-K and expanding after-school programs will increase the size of this taxpayer-funded unionized public sector work-force. One-third of New York City public-school teachers enroll their own children in private schools. With the support of their union and the protection of tenure, bad teachers can never be fired, not even criminals who rape students.

The New York City public school system is a despicable abomination, and yet Mayor de Blasio wants to raise taxes to expand it.

Every item in De Blasio’s agenda is as bad as (or worse than) his education policy, and the important thing is that it be implemented immediately, so that its failures are not delayed. Economic decline, escalating crime, rampant corruption, an exodus of law-abiding citizens, an influx of deadbeats and predators — the sooner New York City descends into bankrupt anarchy, the better.

God forbid anything good should ever happen to the people of a city so depraved as to elect Bill de Blasio their mayor.

New York’s future is going to be worse than Dinkins — a dystopia straight out of Snake Plissken’s worst nightmares.

 

 


Category: New York

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23 Responses to “De Blasio Plans to Destroy New York City: ‘We Won’t Wait. We’ll Do It Now.’”

  1. Political Rift » De Blasio Plans to Destroy New York City: ‘We Won’t Wait. We’ll Do It Now.’
    January 5th, 2014 @ 3:04 pm

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  2. speckman16
    January 5th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm

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  3. ErikEssig
    January 5th, 2014 @ 3:37 pm

    Sailer is always worth a read. And yes NYC (and the state) is (are) doomed.

  4. Quartermaster
    January 5th, 2014 @ 3:58 pm

    Sailer is published over at TakiMag, and used to be published at VDare. His evolutionism is worthless, but the rest of what he has to say is well worth the time.

  5. Steve Skubinna
    January 5th, 2014 @ 4:15 pm

    No problem, plenty of free money to prop them up. This is what that post was about yesterday, regarding “federal dollars.”

    See, federal dollars are not like the dollars you and I spend, that must be earned. Federal dollars have no cost whatever. They’re the secret ingredient in all socialist policy.

  6. Adjoran
    January 5th, 2014 @ 4:24 pm

    As a point of fact: every single study on the effects of Head Start and other pre-school programs, and in truth on kindergarten itself, shows no benefit at all to the student from having attended. NONE.

    It is a huge waste of money which functions mainly as free government day care.

  7. robertstacymccain
    January 5th, 2014 @ 4:30 pm

    There is an entire chapter in The Vision of the Anointed called, “The Irrelevance of Evidence.”

  8. WarEagle82
    January 5th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm

    Wouldn’t be quicker to give New York to Zimbabwe or Cuba or Central African Republic and just get it over with…

  9. DaveO
    January 5th, 2014 @ 5:32 pm

    We don’t New Yorkers fleeing. Look at what happened to Montana and Colorado with the Californians. The New Yorkers chose their poison, and should be permitted the pleasure of its consequences.

  10. DaveO
    January 5th, 2014 @ 5:33 pm

    Correction: ‘We dont want New Yorkers fleeing….’

  11. TC_LeatherPenguin
    January 5th, 2014 @ 7:19 pm

    Shades of Abe Beame!

    I’ll just leave this here… http://bit.ly/1kkKECS

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  13. Bob Belvedere
    January 5th, 2014 @ 7:55 pm

    Nice to come back from my two-week-plus vacation and see that the Western World is still Goddamn batsh-t insane…..I may not come back.

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  15. Oogamooga
    January 6th, 2014 @ 2:25 am

    Sailer’s fine with leftism as long as it’s leftism without immigration.

  16. Quartermaster
    January 6th, 2014 @ 12:50 pm

    If you register with Disqus you’ll get an edit button.

  17. Quartermaster
    January 6th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm

    That may be. The only thing I’ve seen him deal with is things that set the screaming left on edge.

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  19. Bob Mack
    January 6th, 2014 @ 2:40 pm

    America, at least the part of it that remains normal, now has a better reason than Los Mets to detest the City That Never Sleeps — the fools who reside in the rotten Apple have installed as their mayor a rootin’ tootin’ commie. Red Pride Parades down 5th Avenue, anyone? http://crockettlives.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/the-red-apple/

  20. Southern Pride
    January 6th, 2014 @ 11:12 pm

    You hear all of these New York guys talking tough, but they are nothing more than panty clad sissies, looking for the government to do for them what they stand no chance of doing for themselves. Little boy punks, these Union worker scum bags, who wouldn’t stand a chance against a real man. Bring it on little boys, once your city goes down in flames, we’ll be there to bust your worthless asses.

  21. Seabass120
    January 7th, 2014 @ 1:36 am

    LET.IT.BURN

  22. Art Deco
    January 7th, 2014 @ 8:46 am

    Of course, developers will be happy to produce affordable housing through renovations and construction. They have no reason to do so, however, if rent controls prevent providers of housing from covering their costs. They are impeded from doing so if health and safety codes are suboptimally elaborate, if tort law runs on the principle of plunder rather than the principle of compensation for harms, and if zoning regulations allow professional obstructionists to flourish.

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