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A lot of people reading this were not even born yet in 1975, but I was 29 years old at the time and I remember it well. Just like Deblasio is asking Trump for federal $$$ for New York City currently going broke, and threatening to cut city jobs ( first responders, health care workers, sanitation workers, educators). back in 1975 then mayor Abe Beame did just that. The city's debt then was $10 Billion, and Beame cut police, firefighters, sanitation workers, etc, like never seen before.
The result was lots of crime and lots of fires which burned until they burned themselves out. Huge piles of garbage rotting in the streets, with nobody to remove them. Just like now, Beame appealed to then President Gerald Ford for federal $$$. Just like now, Ford refused to do the bailout, citing New York's carelessness and negligence, in causing their own problems. Beame actually went to the White House to try to get the huge bailout, and sat for hours waiting for Ford, who never appeared. Beame stormed out in a huff, angry that he couldn't get his giant handout.
The New York Daily News intensified the issue by printing this cover page >>
The interesting thing about this so similar pair of events 45 years apart, is that they are mirror images of one another. They both seem to be like identical twins. A bunch of reasons are given for why New York City was so broke in 1975, and why it is again, but the usually unspoken reason is the same in both cases >> Too much money being spent on welfare, because of too liberal a policy in paying it out.
I moved out of New York City in 1975, the same year this picture was shown on the newspaper's front page. I moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. It became very clear what was happening. In Knoxville, a rather conservative city, to get welfare $$$, one had to either >>
1. have dependent children......or
2. Be severely disabled
But in New York City, to get welfare $$$, there was just one criteria
1. to have no money (period)
So guess what I discovered one day while walking down the street in downtown Knoxville. A row of buses (I counted 46 of them) filled with black people, and every bus had the words "New York" written on the destination sign in the front of the bus. You got it. Heading to New York to get welfare.
In the late 60s and early 70s, a mass migration took place of poor people from the South, and from the West Indies (mostly Puerto Rico), all with one thing in mind > WELFARE. Of course they weren't looking for jobs. There weren't any. The mid 70's recession was in full force. When I graduated from college in June of 1974, the New York Daily News had another interesting front page message. It said >> UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST SINCE 1939.
So the migrants poured in, and the city's budget began hemmoraging relentlessly. The mayor and city council could have easily stopped it, just by establishing a 2 year residency requirement to get welfare. Or they could have established guidelines as in Knoxville, TN (and about every other southern city). They didn't for a particular reason. It was just like the way liberals do things now. FOR VOTES.
Sure, the millions of people streaming into New York represented VOTES for the guys who let them in, and then gave them Billions$$ in welfare. I remember walking the streets of Harlem (large black community) where my college was, and seeing hundreds of young and middle age men hanging around, playing cards, and just generally loafing, during the daytime.
So now we have BeBlasio, heavily invested in New York's welfare fiasco, Billions$$ of dollars spent to keep his VOTE stream flowing, and expecting the American people to foot the bill (a big one), for his political health.
Trump's answer ? Trump, for his part, has signaled opposition to federal bailouts of Democratic states and cities, saying to use taxpayer money to do so, would be unfair to many Americans.
“You look at Illinois, you look at New York, look at California, you know, those three, there’s tremendous debt there, and many others,” the president remarked in an interview with the New York Post.
“It’s not fair to the Republicans because all the states that need help — they’re run by Democrats in every case,” he also said. “Florida is doing phenomenal, Texas is doing phenomenal, the Midwest is, you know, fantastic — very little debt.”
Notice anything about all those states ? They don't give away welfare to anybody, anytime, in any way.
Shades of 1975.
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The result was lots of crime and lots of fires which burned until they burned themselves out. Huge piles of garbage rotting in the streets, with nobody to remove them. Just like now, Beame appealed to then President Gerald Ford for federal $$$. Just like now, Ford refused to do the bailout, citing New York's carelessness and negligence, in causing their own problems. Beame actually went to the White House to try to get the huge bailout, and sat for hours waiting for Ford, who never appeared. Beame stormed out in a huff, angry that he couldn't get his giant handout.
The New York Daily News intensified the issue by printing this cover page >>
The interesting thing about this so similar pair of events 45 years apart, is that they are mirror images of one another. They both seem to be like identical twins. A bunch of reasons are given for why New York City was so broke in 1975, and why it is again, but the usually unspoken reason is the same in both cases >> Too much money being spent on welfare, because of too liberal a policy in paying it out.
I moved out of New York City in 1975, the same year this picture was shown on the newspaper's front page. I moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. It became very clear what was happening. In Knoxville, a rather conservative city, to get welfare $$$, one had to either >>
1. have dependent children......or
2. Be severely disabled
But in New York City, to get welfare $$$, there was just one criteria
1. to have no money (period)
So guess what I discovered one day while walking down the street in downtown Knoxville. A row of buses (I counted 46 of them) filled with black people, and every bus had the words "New York" written on the destination sign in the front of the bus. You got it. Heading to New York to get welfare.
In the late 60s and early 70s, a mass migration took place of poor people from the South, and from the West Indies (mostly Puerto Rico), all with one thing in mind > WELFARE. Of course they weren't looking for jobs. There weren't any. The mid 70's recession was in full force. When I graduated from college in June of 1974, the New York Daily News had another interesting front page message. It said >> UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST SINCE 1939.
So the migrants poured in, and the city's budget began hemmoraging relentlessly. The mayor and city council could have easily stopped it, just by establishing a 2 year residency requirement to get welfare. Or they could have established guidelines as in Knoxville, TN (and about every other southern city). They didn't for a particular reason. It was just like the way liberals do things now. FOR VOTES.
Sure, the millions of people streaming into New York represented VOTES for the guys who let them in, and then gave them Billions$$ in welfare. I remember walking the streets of Harlem (large black community) where my college was, and seeing hundreds of young and middle age men hanging around, playing cards, and just generally loafing, during the daytime.
So now we have BeBlasio, heavily invested in New York's welfare fiasco, Billions$$ of dollars spent to keep his VOTE stream flowing, and expecting the American people to foot the bill (a big one), for his political health.
Trump's answer ? Trump, for his part, has signaled opposition to federal bailouts of Democratic states and cities, saying to use taxpayer money to do so, would be unfair to many Americans.
“You look at Illinois, you look at New York, look at California, you know, those three, there’s tremendous debt there, and many others,” the president remarked in an interview with the New York Post.
“It’s not fair to the Republicans because all the states that need help — they’re run by Democrats in every case,” he also said. “Florida is doing phenomenal, Texas is doing phenomenal, the Midwest is, you know, fantastic — very little debt.”
Notice anything about all those states ? They don't give away welfare to anybody, anytime, in any way.
Shades of 1975.
Liberal Mayor Issues Appalling Threat To Citizens If Trump Doesn't Bail Him Out
How is that the federal government's fault? Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is doubling down on his warning that the city will need to cut 22,000 workers on Oct. 1 unless the
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Welcome to Fear City: NYPD's 1975 pamphlet warned tourists of crime
In 1975, New York City was about to lay off thousands of cops when their unions decided to create and distribute ‘Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York.’
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