Saturday, February 21, 2015

American Thinker: What Life is Like in DeBlasio's New York - 'drug use and dealing, public urination, panhandling, ranting' - Yes, big part of problem is Leftist Big Government, but even a Mayor Ronald Reagan could not make 3rd World people into 1st World people. --tma


American Thinker: What Life is Like in DeBlasio's New York

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The NYT published an article where people in different neighborhoods of New York City described what life was like there. Here are some excerpts, starting with a lady resident reporting from Chelsea, a trendy, expensive, and largely gay section of Manhattan:
In 2011, a 328-bed facility for people with mental health, drug and behavior issues opened on our street. Since then, the quality of life has deteriorated, with constant drug use and dealing, public urination, panhandling, ranting, and other anti-social behaviors.
This is quite common in New York for homeless shelters to open in the most exclusive neighborhoods, in the name of diversity. Since most people don't have cars, they have the privilege of paying sky-high rents and then navigating smelly, begging, menacing, and often dangerous homeless people blocking narrow sidewalks. It's liberalism at its best. Maybe they could use a good human waste map, like San Francisco has. ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/what_life_is_like_in_deblasios_new_york.html