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Cardi B will get it.
The hip-hop star spoke for all New Yorkers when she raked Mayor Eric Adams over the coals for his disastrous proposed cuts to the NYPD budget.
“Crimes are gonna go through the roof,” she exclaimed in a video posted on X. “What’s going to occur to my nieces, what’s going to occur to my nephews, what’s going to occur to my cousins, my aunts, my associates that’s dwelling within the hood?”
This fundamental reasoning — fewer cops means extra crimes — is clear to youngsters. But in some way to not Gotham’s political elites.
The City Council appears to be like set to OK the cuts to cops, libraries and different important public companies the mayor has proposed.
Why?
One former councilman steered it’s probably so the council can defend “member merchandise” spending — i.e., council members’ pork for related constituents.
The cuts additionally leave in place most of the endless handouts for migrants, a lefty precedence.
That’s proper: The officers elected to signify the pursuits of all New Yorkers are keen to slash funds for rubbish pickups and cops to accommodate unlawful immigrants in deluxe accommodations.
This is but extra proof that extra (and completely different!) cuts are attainable, and that behind our fiscal nightmare is an eminently political drawback.
The drawback has engendered migrant spending — once more, that is on social companies for noncitizens who entered the nation illegally — that this yr alone equals 4 instances greater than your entire metropolis price range of Miami, which faces the nation’s second-largest migrant wave.
Migrants are costing the Big Apple about $40,000 per head, vs. $3,000 for Los Angeles and $7,000 for Chicago.
And Adams has didn’t sort out head-on one of many actual drivers of the disaster, town’s absurd “proper to shelter,” looking for an emergency carveout as an alternative of preventing to finish the rule itself.
But the true drawback lies within the metropolis’s political tradition, the place average New Yorkers still come dead last.
Until that adjustments, the fiscal fires will burn and public service and safety will deteriorate.
