[FoxBiz] New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is rattling real estate developers and landlords over his sweeping proposal to tackle the city’s housing crisis. The Queens assemblyman wants to build 200,000 new publicly-subsidized affordable homes and immediately freeze rents for the city’s 2.4 million stabilized tenants.
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He’s a communist manipulating the Moslem vote for power. Who would benefit from this $100B project? His friends. Who would pay for this $100B project? Not his friends.
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I've seen it pointed out that if free buses, then free subway eventually, and that people will use them to travel to the subsidized grocery where they will encounter large lines of same minded people and empty shelves, which will lead to rationing, which will lead to theft, which leads to safety cage shopping, which leads to longer lines, and we are all familiar with today's lack of patience and understanding.
So the public transit system will be booting people trying to get to work by people not working to go buy items paid for by working people. And if you think only the poor and needy are going to take advantage of this, I got news for ya pal, I've seen people literally drive 120 miles to save a dollar shopping.
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I got news for Mamdani. One hundred billion dollars is NOT affordable.
In California, the usual suspects have been talking about the need for more affordable housing for as long as I can remember and that's a long, long time. It has always been a lie. They've been building as many units as they can as fast as they can for several decades and the units are still not affordable. Rent for a grimy cracker box might be $2000 a month, depending on the neighborhood. Nicer units in nicer neighborhoods might be upwards of $8000.
Los Angeles has squandered billions of dollars on housing for the homeless and the homeless are still on the sidewalks in ever increasing numbers. The units cost half a million dollars if and when they can ever even be built. But nobody knows where all the money has gone. It's just gone. Los Angeles tax payers got scammed. OBTW, LA is broke and begging for money from the state which is also broke.
The only way to make housing affordable is to turn the whole state into a slum where nobody wants to live. Newsom, of course, is bound and determined to do just that. The problems is made even worse by the lack of infrastructure. If you're gonna bring that many more people into a state, or a city, you need more roads, transportation, sewers, water, electricity, schools, hospitals, police and fire protection, etc. Newsom doesn't have any of that and I doubt if Mamdani does either.
Affordable housing is not just a lie, it is socialist bullshit. The politicians who keep pushing it are thieves.
So the question is: Will New York be a place where hard working, innovative and affluent people choose to live or will it be a city full of leeches in squalid tenements because nobody else wants to live there? Of course, it could go the way of Detroit and become a ghost town.
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...empty shelves, which will lead to rationing, *
and thus to 'black markets' [from which the government gets no taxes]. Concurrently, the amount of 'protection money' become the other tax to the process.
* exemption to shortages for the party apparatchiks.
Make a list of the protesters — a shortcut for a To Be Fired Immediately list.
[Breitbart] Federal workers protested the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) move to the current National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters in Virginia on Tuesday, forcing the planned press conference by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and HUD Sec. Scott Turner to be moved into a secure room.
NSF employees, represented by the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403, claimed that plans for HUD’s relocation to their Alexandria building involved “construction of an executive dining room” for Turner and “reserved parking spaces for the Secretary’s 5 cars.”
The union also claimed that a potential new gym is in the works for Turner “and his family” to use, and HUD’s imminent takeover of the building was concealed from them until earlier this week.
They fail to comprehend the different roles of senior management and, well, them.
Turner, who has repeatedly criticized his agency’s current headquarters inside the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building in Washington, DC, denied the claims that he advocated for the move to satisfy any personal desire for a more luxurious office.
However, before he, Youngkin, or the General Services Administration (GSA) could explain the decision or answer any questions, their press conference was crashed by angry NSF workers:
Dozens of employees poured into the east wing of the second floor to boo and chant, “NSF! NSF!” — prompting security personnel to usher the governor, secretary, GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Michael Peters, their respective staffers, and journalists into another room.
Once the press briefing could begin without interruption, Turner emphasized that HUD’s move is to prioritize the “health, safety and well being for [the] HUD workforce,” who he said are “working in unsafe conditions to this day.”
“I would hope that no leader in government or otherwise would expect staff to work every day in an atmosphere where the air quality is questionable, leaks are nearly unstoppable, and the HVAC is almost unworkable, just to name a few examples,” the secretary said, “in addition to the broken elevator banks that have been broken for years.”
The Weaver Building has had major repair issues for years, with a March Fox News report by Bret Baier showing the unfinished state of HUD’s longtime headquarters:
The building, which opened in 1968, currently faces over $500 million in deferred maintenance and modernization needs, and it costs taxpayers more than $56 million every year in rent and operations expenditures.
In addition, with every member of HUD staff at its headquarters, the Weaver Building only sits at half of its total occupancy.
In April, the GSA and HUD announced that the building had been moved to the accelerated disposition list.
[NYPOST] The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that South Carolina can defund Planned Parenthood, clearing the way for other Republican-led states seeking to deprive the country's largest abortion provider of taxpayer money.
In a 6—3 decision that split along ideological lines, the high court found the 1965 Medicaid Act does not allow individual patients to sue states over decisions to disqualify their preferred providers from receiving Medicaid money — enabling South Carolina to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.
The ruling overturns lower court decisions that had allowed patients' lawsuit to move forward. The Richmond, Va-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals favored Planned Parenthood by slapping an injunction on South Carolina's implementation of its ban on funding for abortion.
''Like other States, South Carolina has an administrative process that lets providers challenge their exclusion from the State's Medicaid program,'' Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
''— private enforcement does not always benefit the public, not least because it requires States to divert money and attention away from social services and toward litigation. And balancing those costs and benefits poses a question of public policy that, under our system of government, only Congress may answer.''
In 2018, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed an executive order preventing all abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, from receiving Medicaid funding.
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...The vast majority of South Carolinians are perfectly happy with this. Some - including my wife - are furious.
I understand the foundation of their argument; that women will lose access to health care. At the bottom line, this is true.
But.
There are 2 PP clinics in SC, one here in Columbia and one in Charleston. The claim that women out in the boondocks will be unable to get health care is not at all accurate, there are many, many clinics out there, run and or supported by the big hospitals in the state. The crux of the matter is that they won't be able to get SC-paid for abortions.
Secondly, the money that goes to PP doesn't go to improving that health care; it goes back to Democratic politicians. Without exception. That is actually MY biggest complaint - I made it clear to my wife that if PP stopped all political donations, I'll write them a check and walk it down to the office myself. PP at bottom is a money laundering scheme that provides abortions and contraceptives on the side.
And finally - and full disclosure: I skipped this part of the discussion - PPs roots are in the frankly eugenicist beliefs of its founder, Margaret Sanger. Look up her statements on who should and should not be allowed to reproduce.
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Planned Parenthood is in the business of killing babies. It provides some healthcare as well in the same way that a deli also sells mustard. You can get mustard at the grocery store and you can get healthcare elsewhere. Healthcare and killing are not something that you want to get at the same establishment in the first place. Nobody would drop their kids off at a childcare center that is also an adult bookstore. There is an inherent incompatibility to Planned Parenthoos and healthcare.
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This is what those super rich Progressives should be funding instead of Black Bloc/Antifa protests and vote fraud. There is no need to force objecting taxpayers to subsidize abortions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that South Carolina can defund 
