NY is hemorrhaging cash — but de Blasio, Cuomo, unions refuse to face reality

[rangerrebew]

 NY is hemorrhaging cash — but de Blasio, Cuomo, unions refuse to face reality

By Post Editorial Board

August 29, 2020 | 9:54pm
 
 

Mayor de Blasio is set to send out layoff notices Monday, but trimming the city workforce won’t come close to addressing the ginormous fiscal and economic challenges ahead.

Consider the July jobless figures out last week: 15.9 percent statewide, 20 percent (one of five workers) in the city. In The Bronx, 25 percent were jobless, a rate last seen during the Great Depression.

New York’s numbers are far worse than those for the nation, which saw only 10.2 percent of employees off the job. And don’t blame it all on COVID: Last week, the state was posting the third-lowest number of new cases per capita — 22 per 100,000, or almost 90 percent less than Mississippi’s 202 per 100,000.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/ny-is-bleeding-out-as-de-blasio-cuomo-unions-refuse-to-face-reality/

[jmyrlefuller]

Let me give you an example. This afternoon, I took a 25-mile drive to a nearby small city. (Usually I go across the state border to Pennsylvania but the particular item I was buying wasn't in stock there.) I'm coming through one of the towns in-between Olean and home. On a STATE HIGHWAY, these guys decided to tar and chip the road. And not only a state highway, the main thoroughfare through town.

Instead of paving it with traditional asphalt, they chose a system that created dust and gravel stir-up any time you tried to drive anywhere near close to the speed limit. Down the road you drive, you'll keep hearing tink, tink, tink as the little bits wreak havoc on your undercarriage. Now, that's not too uncommon on town back roads around here, but the only reason I can think of that they did this on a state highway was because it was cheaper and they couldn't afford to do the job right.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Yes they do.  NY is about ready to layoff over 20,000 of the +300,000 city employees.

[XenaLee]

Let me give you an example. This afternoon, I took a 25-mile drive to a nearby small city. (Usually I go across the state border to Pennsylvania but the particular item I was buying wasn't in stock there.) I'm coming through one of the towns in-between Olean and home. On a STATE HIGHWAY, these guys decided to tar and chip the road. And not only a state highway, the main thoroughfare through town.

Instead of paving it with traditional asphalt, they chose a system that created dust and gravel stir-up any time you tried to drive anywhere near close to the speed limit. Down the road you drive, you'll keep hearing tink, tink, tink as the little bits wreak havoc on your undercarriage. Now, that's not too uncommon on town back roads around here, but the only reason I can think of that they did this on a state highway was because it was cheaper and they couldn't afford to do the job right.

They can probably afford to do the job right.... (with a never-ending supply of other people's money).   But it's probably more a factor of the Chinafication of America.   Do the job cheaper and easier... who cares if it doesn't last?   Who will dare dissent?

[Gefn]

Let me give you an example. This afternoon, I took a 25-mile drive to a nearby small city. (Usually I go across the state border to Pennsylvania but the particular item I was buying wasn't in stock there.) I'm coming through one of the towns in-between Olean and home. On a STATE HIGHWAY, these guys decided to tar and chip the road. And not only a state highway, the main thoroughfare through town.

Instead of paving it with traditional asphalt, they chose a system that created dust and gravel stir-up any time you tried to drive anywhere near close to the speed limit. Down the road you drive, you'll keep hearing tink, tink, tink as the little bits wreak havoc on your undercarriage. Now, that's not too uncommon on town back roads around here, but the only reason I can think of that they did this on a state highway was because it was cheaper and they couldn't afford to do the job right.

I would be freaking out if I heard those tink noises. It’s bad enough that people now are driving recklessness on the roads, ignoring speed limits because the cops aren’t really on the roads giving tickets. It’s bothersome. The other day I was on Route 1, and I’m going 60 in a 55 speed limit, and cars are passing me going 70. Hello? There are traffic lights? It’s not the dang turnpike!

It’s going to be a mess this winter, with potholes too.