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That Was Fast: NYC's Socialist Mayor Already Begging for a Bailout

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-30 00:57|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1795 views ] Top

1 “Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-04-30 03:00|| 2026-04-30 03:00|| Front Page Top

2
Timing.... Asking just before elections.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-04-30 03:34|| 2026-04-30 03:34|| Front Page Top

3 Ask New York State, leave the fed out of it!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-04-30 04:03|| 2026-04-30 04:03|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-30 05:07|| 2026-04-30 05:07|| Front Page Top

5 We will all pay for Mandani’s shenanigans. That’s why New Yorkers send Schumer and AOC to Congress.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-04-30 06:20|| 2026-04-30 06:20|| Front Page Top

6 Nothing has changed. Chose a socialist to run the Sahara and what will happen? Nothing, then they'll run out of sand.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-04-30 06:44|| 2026-04-30 06:44|| Front Page Top

7 No where does he offer cuts other than the police. Corruption in NYC has got to match Minneapolis.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-04-30 07:23|| 2026-04-30 07:23|| Front Page Top

8 As Athens found out, you will have a democracy until the population discovers it can vote itself money from the public treasury.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-04-30 10:03|| 2026-04-30 10:03|| Front Page Top

9 Once again the wrong people are in charge.

Funny, that.

Posted by no mo uro 2026-04-30 11:23|| 2026-04-30 11:23|| Front Page Top

10 Looks like the governor and legislature are unreceptive to Mamdani's demands

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/zohran-mamdani-julie-menin-kathy-hochul-ptet-credit/

Posted by Chantry 2026-04-30 11:45|| 2026-04-30 11:45|| Front Page Top

11 The comments at Instapundit brought up the possibility that the governor will change if she gets reelected, but can Mandami wait that long?

Posted by Chantry 2026-04-30 12:00|| 2026-04-30 12:00|| Front Page Top

12 It's so easy to spend other peoples money.

Posted by mossomo 2026-04-30 13:20|| 2026-04-30 13:20|| Front Page Top

13 Government Watchdog: Obamacare Medicare ‘Innovation’ Center Wasted Over $5 Billion

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-30 14:17|| 2026-04-30 14:17|| Front Page Top

14 ^8

Athenian democracy as practiced at various times before being conquered by Alexander the Great, was a lot different from what we call democracy now.

There were lots of slaves who had no vote. Also women had no vote.

Their defeat by Alexander wasn't due to spending for social programs. Although causes are debated almost every historian blames factional disputes for at least a big part of it.

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-04-30 15:59|| 2026-04-30 15:59|| Front Page Top

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