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FrankRep
01-04-2014, 03:38 PM
Bill de Blasio: "Everything you heard about me is true. . . I am not a free-marketeer. . . I believe in the heavy hand of government"

SOURCE:
http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/de-blasio-vs-the-market/

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Bill de Blasio, the new mayor of New York City, wants to turn the city into one vast progressive laboratory experiment.


Bill de Blasio: New York City's "Progressive" New Mayor (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/17290-bill-de-blasio-new-york-city-s-progressive-new-mayor)


The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
02 January 2014


When Bill de Blasio was celebrating his mayoral victory last November, he made clear (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/nyregion/de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor.html?_r=0) exactly what his agenda is for New York City:



My fellow New Yorkers: Today you spoke out loudly and clearly for a new direction for our city.

Make no mistake: the people of this city have chosen a progressive path, and tonight we set forth on it, together.


This was predicted by another progressive, President Obama, when he endorsed de Blasio back in September (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/16644-nyc-mayor-candidate-de-blazio-takes-flak-over-pro-red-background), saying:



Progressive change is the centerpiece of Bill de Blasio’s vision for New York City, and it’s why he will be a great mayor of America’s largest city.

Bill’s agenda for New York is marked by bold, courageous ideas that address the great challenges of our time.


Media mouthpieces from the Associated Press (http://news.yahoo.com/blasio-becomes-face-nyc-progressive-movement-074726910.html;_ylt=AuZyxh6DZ1cs526FDxyrdM7QtDMD;_ ylu=X3oDMTBsOWZnNDlhBGNvbG8DYWM0BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcg--) to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/nyregion/de-blasio-draws-all-liberal-eyes-to-new-york-city.html?hp&_r=0) have signaled their thrall with the new direction. On January 1, 2014, the day de Blasio was sworn in as New York City's new mayor by former President Bill Clinton, the AP hailed de Blasio “as the face of a progressive movement that pledges a significant realignment of the nation’s largest city.” One day earlier, the Times delighted to note that “liberals across the country are looking to Bill de Blasio ... to morph New York City’s municipal machinery into a ... laboratory for populist theories of government that have never been enacted on such a large scale.”

In his inauguration speech, de Blasio took aim at the “inequality” his progressive policies would supposedly overcome: “We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. And so today, we commit to a new progressive direction in New York.”

He also stated:



Our city is no stranger to big struggles — and no stranger to overcoming them.

New York has faced fiscal collapse, a crime epidemic, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters. But now, in our time, we face a different crisis — an inequality crisis. It’s not often the stuff of banner headlines in our daily newspapers. It’s a quiet crisis, but one no less pernicious than those that have come before.


Working quietly for decades for leftist causes including supporting the Marxist Sandinistas in the late 1980s before moving on to head up the city’s General Welfare Committee, de Blasio has been forthright and transparent about what he hopes to accomplish from the mayor’s chair. He helped pass the Gender-Based Discrimination Protection Act and the Domestic Partnership Recognition law. He has voiced his opposition to charter schools, saying “I won’t favor charters. Our central focus is traditional public schools.”

He wants to tax the wealthy even more heavily than now in order to expand the role and influence of the “traditional public schools” even further into the lives of children. As he explained in his inauguration speech: “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.”

Last November, when addressing business leaders who would be taxed including the owners of Kushner Properties, SL Green Realty, the Durst Organization and RXR Realty, he was clear (http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/de-blasio-vs-the-market/) regarding his progressivism:



Everything you've heard about me is true.... I am not a free-marketeer.... I believe in the heavy hand of government.


This was music to the ears of progressives who swarmed over his campaign with financing and endorsements, including (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2592) Hollywood lefties like Alec Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, and Kathleen Turner.

Just exactly what is de Blasio likely to accomplish, in addition to extorting the rich to fund babes barely weaned and shutting down charter schools? For one thing, the rebirth of ACORN (http://nypost.com/2013/09/16/acorn-chief-gets-back-in-the-game/) under the name New York Communities for Change (NYCC) run by the same head of ACORN operations, Bertha Lewis. Already well-funded with $400,000 from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) to battle charter schools, Lewis can already see bigger things ahead: more city funding (http://nypost.com/2013/09/24/acorn-sowed-seeds-for-de-blasio/) for “affordable housing units.”

That’s just the beginning. Welfare reforms supported by Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg have to be rejected and replaced with more lenient requirements and more generous cash payouts to the poor. Wrote Heather MacDonald at the New York Post (http://nypost.com/2013/12/03/de-blasios-welfare-agenda/):



The central idea of [the original] welfare reform was that recipients should work or look for work in exchange for benefits. This principle exploded [progressive] welfare ideology, which held that it was demeaning to require work.


Under de Blasio one can expect the number on welfare in New York City, currently at 350,000, to explode once those onerous work requirements are removed.

And as reported by the Post, de Blasio has vowed to “stop efforts to divert individuals [helping them find work first before putting them on the dole] from accessing cash assistance.” And he thinks that the number of those New Yorkers already receiving SNAP assistance — more than one in five — is at least 250,000 too low. In his mayoral “blueprint” de Blasio once again was clear: “Providing basic income and food security to all New Yorkers [is] a key responsibility of government.”

Much of this won’t happen, of course, to the great disappointment of the likes of Sarandon, Baldwin, Obama and Lewis. As Howard Dean, the inevitable liberal candidate for office and former governor of Vermont, asked rhetorically:



Do I expect him to keep every one of his promises? Absolutely not.

This is the truth of mayors and governors: until you sit in the chair, you don’t really know.

He’s going to find out that he can’t keep all of his promises.


That’s not to say that the new hard-left mayor of New York won’t attempt to implement his progressive agenda. But moving the city even more sharply to the left is like turning the Allure of the Seas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Allure_of_the_Seas). There are other political agendas at play in the city and in Albany where de Blasio may just find less willingness to turn New York City into a vast social-welfare experiment to satisfy progressives’ anti-capitalist, anti-freedom agenda.


Related Article:

NYC Mayor Candidate De Blasio Takes Flak Over Pro-communist Background (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/16644-nyc-mayor-candidate-de-blasio-takes-flak-over-pro-communist-background)

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio's "Tax the Rich" Plan May Stall in Albany (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/17307-de-blasio-s-tax-the-rich-plan-may-stall-in-albany)

Cleaner44
01-04-2014, 04:33 PM
Outstanding! I hope they get as progressive as they can in NY and suffer the consequences as well.

Christian Liberty
01-04-2014, 04:51 PM
Outstanding! I hope they get as progressive as they can in NY and suffer the consequences as well.

Why would you wish harm on people?

Kords21
01-04-2014, 04:58 PM
He may not believe in the free market, but him and his city with get a free market reality check when people vote with their feet. NYC just keeps going further down on my list of places to to visit.

FrankRep
01-04-2014, 05:05 PM
It begins: New NYC schools chancellor will push ‘progressive agenda’ (http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/02/it-begins-new-nyc-schools-chancellor-will-push-progressive-agenda/)


Daily Caller
1/2/2014


Now that New York City Mayor and far-left Democrat Bill de Blasio has chosen Carmen Farina to become chancellor of NYC schools, city residents can expect a sharp turn to the left on education policy.

Farina, a former teacher and long-time adviser to de Blasio, shares the mayor’s desire to foist a “progressive agenda” upon NYC schools, she said at a news conference earlier this week.

“This progressive agenda actually says we know there are things that need to happen, but they need to happen with people, not to people,” she said.

That means liberal education goals — including an expansion of taxpayer-funded pre-K and elimination of merit-based pay for teachers — will definitely be a top priority for the new administration.
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Christian Liberty
01-04-2014, 05:10 PM
He may not believe in the free market, but him and his city with get a free market reality check when people vote with their feet. NYC just keeps going further down on my list of places to to visit.

I've been there mutiple times. I'd just as well never do so again.

Anti Federalist
01-04-2014, 07:26 PM
Why would you wish harm on people?

Because they asked for it, and if given the chance, would not hesitate to harm me.

Christian Liberty
01-04-2014, 07:29 PM
Because they asked for it, and if given the chance, would not hesitate to harm me.

That isn't really limited to NY. Its true everywhere in this country. NYC is just the worst.

Anti Federalist
01-04-2014, 07:53 PM
Bill de Blasio: "Everything you heard about me is true. . . I am not a free-marketeer. . . I believe in the heavy hand of government"


Carmen Farina Chancellor of NYC schools: “This progressive agenda actually says we know there are things that need to happen, but they need to happen with people, not to people,” she said.

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tod evans
01-04-2014, 08:07 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

HOLLYWOOD
01-04-2014, 10:07 PM
The middle classes federal taxpayers will pick any redistributions in the money...

The wealthy and rich have the best tax accounts and tax lawyers to write-off any tax and fee increases by Mayor Depshit imposed on the wealthy and corporate businesses. e.g....Their are numerous upper east side wealth that use farming subsidies, etc.

It's the middles classes that pickup the tabs for all the corporate and wealth welfare. It's a huge con scam and people look at political parties instead of the tax laws on the books.

Until people spend the time on how the money is transferred and how the politicians steal from the people, while giving the appearance of taxing the rich and receiving accolades in giving to the poor... token/exploited poor


Just you watch over time... the middle classes and poor will slowly be squeezed out of Manhattan. You want to work or live in New York City, go move to Staten Island or Queens.


FY2013... with the FEDERAL RESERVE pumping $4 Trillion to Wall street/corporations... record earnings, record profits yet the amount of taxes paid by the corporates as a percentage of the entire revenue collected has dropped from 14.4% down to 9.5% over the past 5 years.


General Electric... GE the behemoth corporation at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and Jefferey 'Fascist' Immelt along with his bitch friends with the White House/Capital Hill... paid a domestic tax rate from 2002-2012 of: 3.17% 3% for a DECADE! Most middle class people are paying 50-60% each year...


Until people put the political bullshit aside and see exactly how they are getting screwed by tax laws and inflation induced through monetary schemes, as well as, welfare for campaign donors and bundlers(the real owners of this country), count on becoming poorer & poorer.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller predicted in 1895 that direct taxes on the people will case class warfare and breed corruption of government.

scottditzen
01-04-2014, 10:48 PM
Bill de Blasio: "Everything you heard about me is true. . . I am not a free-marketeer. . . I believe in the heavy hand of government"

SOURCE:
http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/de-blasio-vs-the-market/

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Everything you've heard about me is true.... I am not a free-marketeer.... I believe in the heavy hand of government.


This was music to the ears of progressives who swarmed over his campaign with financing and endorsements, including (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2592) Hollywood lefties like Alex Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, and Kathleen Turner.







Related Article:

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio's "Tax the Rich" Plan May Stall in Albany (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/17307-de-blasio-s-tax-the-rich-plan-may-stall-in-albany)

Hee hee...Alex Baldwin.

Paulbot99
01-04-2014, 10:53 PM
Welcome to Detroit. :cool:

NIU Students for Liberty
01-04-2014, 11:00 PM
Stanhope sums up ignorant New Yorkers perfectly:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWGZpu_TXw

gwax23
01-04-2014, 11:33 PM
Can we stop hating on New Yorkers please and focus on this scumbag.

NIU Students for Liberty
01-04-2014, 11:57 PM
Can we stop hating on New Yorkers please and focus on this scumbag.

He didn't just fall from the sky. A majority of New York voters gave him his current job.

gwax23
01-05-2014, 12:41 AM
He didn't just fall from the sky. A majority of New York voters gave him his current job.

Which is a reason to hate democracy and tyranny of the majority, not a reason to collective several million people. Further this isnt unique to New York, I mean look whose in office.

FrankRep
01-05-2014, 12:54 AM
Flashback:

NYC Mayor Candidate Bill De Blasio Takes Flak Over Pro-communist Background (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/16644-nyc-mayor-candidate-de-blasio-takes-flak-over-pro-communist-background)


30 September 2013 | President Obama endorses New York mayor hopeful Bill de Blasio and praises him as a great hope for "Progressive change" — as de Blasio's radical record of support for Fidel Castro, the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe gets reported.

randall_s
01-05-2014, 03:20 PM
The question is, how do all these politically connected Democrat billionaires make their money? The old fashioned way, or through crime?

I have no doubt that much of the money in possession of these psychotic would-be slave masters is ill-gotten. Warren Buffet has used legislation of crush his competition. Oprah strikes me as a clearinghouse for Scientology-connected businesses. Hollywood has always attracted dirty money (film production in general is a magnet for narcotics laundering). Bill Gates, well I'll give him a pass... though now he is partnered with the Qatar Charities, which was one of bin Laden's favorite charities (look it up).

Soros is practically broke. Petrobras. Lost his money in Brazil. He's been quiet of late, hasn't he? The shady Hungarian, the European Nationalist (Napolean? Hitler?) is adrift at sea, his sails flapping in the winds of economic turmoil wrought by Obama and the Ikhwanis.

De Blasio will turn New York into Gotham City, but Bloomberg already did most of the work. The organic community of NYC has been decimated by Bloomberg's focus on the trivial, his high taxes and high spending, his attracting of foreign wealth that zips in and zips out, snapping up properties for speculation or to get money into the USA. NYC is a criminal mecca, welcome by the Qatar-connected Bloomberg. Already a dystopian city whose violent crime rate has been on the rise for years, though it's never reported that way. Where as Queen Mike Bloomberg was a Qatari agent, De Blasio is a Fidel Castro sycophant. New Yorkers are stuck between the Nazis and the Communists. Isn't that happy?

In short, I think we're dealing with a bunch of pseudo elites. Criminal million and billionaires, stupid professors, know-nothing journalists and news reporters, terminally blind and corrupt politicians, all sold out, each for their own petty reasons - fame, wealth, reputation among friends.

Ever wonder why The Great Gatsby has made such a comeback? The hero is a smooth talking, bootlegging, mobster who hates the old money. And the old money - the establishment - is loathsome in that book (much like they're loathsome in the world today).

Then you look at a play like Cabaret, with its hypnotic focus on drugs, sex, and booze, on money and opulence before the Nazi stranglehold. It all falls into place. Particularly when you consider that the Muslim Brotherhood are literally unreconstructed Nazis, right down to the same propaganda.

I'll prove this all in a column of my own soon. We're in the early, perhaps mid, 1930s. Class divisions, racial division, a Nazi presence throughout the Middle East and in our own backyard. And a Russia hellbent on stopping it, at whatever cost.

The only thing that's changed is that America has been co-opted by the bad guys.

scottditzen
01-05-2014, 03:26 PM
I've been there mutiple times. I'd just as well never do so again.

Ha ha. I actually really dig NYC. Lets wait and watch this de Blasio character be the reincarnation of Mayor Dinkins aka the Disaster!

DamianTV
01-05-2014, 04:34 PM
Because they asked for it, and if given the chance, would not hesitate to harm me.

Pay any taxes or lose any Liberties? They already do harm you.

Ronin Truth
01-05-2014, 04:49 PM
From Fascism to (Another Kind of) Socialism (http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/new-york-city-r-i-p/)

Thomas DiLorenzo (http://www.lewrockwell.com/author/thomas-dilorenzo/?post_type=lrc-blog)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/new-york-city-r-i-p/

Today is the last day for New York City’s fascist mayor. Tomorrow he turns over the keys to his City Hall office to a proud socialist and former cheerleader for the Nicaraguan communists, Bill de Blasio. He says he wants to use the coercive powers of local government to “redistribute income.” (But his first priority, he says, is to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central Park). Socialist states like Maryland tried that with special “millionaire taxes” and found that, lo and behold, millionaires have the ability to move to another state (or country)! Tax revenues from “the wealthy” in Maryland nosedived. This is one reason why socialists of all stripes have always been advocates of centralized, monopoly government and mortal enemies of federalism, states’ rights, decentralization, secession, and nullification.

Socialism = slavery.

Millions of New Yorkers have apparently lost their marbles–if they had any in the first place.

NYC, R.I.P.

3:07 pm on December 31, 2013

FrankRep
01-05-2014, 06:13 PM
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HOLLYWOOD
01-05-2014, 06:39 PM
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