When this Titanic inevitably succumbs to the tidal wave of irresponsible spending, de Blasio will be gone and all that remains will be a shrunken middle class left drowning in a sea of debt.
Mayor’s budget will spell doom for city in the future
By Bob Friedrich
Years from now, when the city is teetering on the financial abyss, just like Detroit, folks may ask, “How did this happen?”
The answer will be that it started on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s watch with his first smoke-and-mirrors budget that increases spending by double the rate of inflation. This reckless, $74 billion creates multibillion-dollar deficits that increase in each succeeding year. Those billion-dollar deficits, written into the budget, assume that New York will have a strong and robust economy.
What’s surprising is that the NYC Council members don’t want to own the result of their actions in passing the NYC Community Safety Act (CSA) of 2013. In our Queens District, City Council Member Mark Weprin needs to take ownership for a law he personally shepherded through the City Council and into Law in NYC. He and the majority of City Council members have now reintroduced Crime, Disorder and Fear on the streets of NYC. The City Council passed this law against the advice and experience of every level of Law Enforcement in NYC – 500 years of experience. But Mark Weprin and the City Council knew better and now they own the results.
