BYE BYE BIRDIE

I wrote in the prior post that the idea of America is gone.  I say here that the idea of New York City will be gone next week when Bill de Blasio becomes mayor.

NYC was the capitol of individual opportunity and achievement, a melting pot of cultures, and energetic competition and limitless success.  As Sinatra sang, "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere". 

de Blasio thinks otherwise.  He doesn't like the idea that some have more than others, and so wants to redistribute the wealth in the city via higher and higher and higher taxes on those who earn above his definition of enough...a la that other collectivist/statist/marxist in office.  He thinks the police may be racially influenced in their fight against crime, and wants to shackle all of them rather than just those who are.  He thinks government's job is to provide those who could use a bit more with everything they could use a bit more of.  Actually, it's not the government that ever does the providing...it's you and you and you and me.

If you think these views are "just another brand of American politics", that they are just minor variations on a theme, you are wrong.  They are a major junking of  the American way of life into the political garbage can.  And we know what garbage cans smell like.


Goodbye New York...been nice to know ya.