What does this mean?
It means the wealthy believe all politicians are corrupt.
You just have to find out what their price is.
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Since Adams & Cuomo wonât get out of each otherâs way, it may mean they want to back the likely winner.
Pete
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It means you brake it you own it.
Might be the reason we get who we get. The more competent people are not keen on certain jobs at the moment.
They can play for today, or they can play for tomorrow. Playing for tomorrow is the winner. Unemployment soaring and markets bottoming out is not a winner. Rebuilding the US economy later is the winner.
Look at it this way, who wants to be the next Herbert Hoover?
We have one clown who knows his history only as far as 1910.
I am moving all future income streams over to my CU.
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The bipartisan culture of corruption in Washington and many states no longer serves the needs and desires of the wealthy. It only serves itself.
Thatâs why corporate Democrats are in such trouble now.
interest
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People are in a state of misdirection. Outside actors on all fronts are creating a lot of confusion. A tower of Babble.
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It means that millionaires become unlikely allies when you target billionaires.
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I was thinking this butâŚ. do they really really think this guy will win? And why donât they just move, like so many recent high profile specimens have done, to Texas or Florida? Or, hell, for a NYC billionaire Pennsylvania is practically a bicycle ride away and taxes are way less there. (Thatâs what they always say along the I-95 corridor. I grew up there) If Mamdani wins this is an excellent chance to pull that âFuhget you! Iâm taking the ball and going homeâ routine. Itâll be poor people living off of increasingly poor people with nowhere to go. Then, they can point to another failed âBlue Cityâ.
OrâŚ. perhaps they think he can be easily compromised. Not just normal political corruption, âdo me a favorâ stuff. I mean him and his program, seriously compromised. Thus demonstrating once again âsocialism doesnât work. See. It didnât work there!â
Itâs interesting how many people think that the mayor is the most powerful person in the world and has such sweeping powers as to make unilateral decisions about everything. The reality is, though he/she is powerful, the office is constrained by Albany (the governor/state legislature), the City Council, unions, and independent authorities like the MTA.
So no need to assert widespread communism coming to the Big Apple anytime soon.
Pete
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All they need is enough window dressing to support their fairy tale.
City=Blue. Mayor= Socialist. Money People leave casing city economic stress = See? Socialism failed
I agree with you. A socialist mayor getting elected to some city somewhere canât really do anything socialistical other than raise some taxes for this or that and maybe some peripheral things specific to that cityâs charter.
Mamdani says the wealthiest NYâers biggest concern is quality of life. Not sure if I believe him. But it could be.
Maybe the wealthy are willing to pay so they donât have to step over the homeless on their way to Wall Street, the Met, or Yankee stadium. Maybe they understand that there really are only three options: homeless in the streets, homeless in concentration camps, or homeless in shelters transitioning to housing. Limos of the wealthy go faster when the proles take free busses. Maybe they think, like Henry Ford, that theyâll have more productive and profitable worker/consumers if they have better housing and wages.
But, probably, theyâre just backing the obvious winner and hoping for a seat at the table.
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Perhaps the better question down the road will be did âsocialismâ improve things? Yet to be determined. I certainly have my doubts about rent control.
DB2
That there is no correlation between being wealthy and being smart.
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