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Some of the responses are quite telling. Instead of stating and proving what is false in the video, all of you just dismiss it out of hand. *I don’t agree with it, so it must be false*.
Is this source not credible either?
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Mayor Eric Adams frequently proclaims how the city has recovered all the jobs lost in the recession. Left unsaid is that despite those economic gains, more New Yorkers need to rely on government safety net programs than before the pandemic.
The number of people on SNAP food benefits is about 15% higher than early 2020 and the number on Medicaid is about 25%. But the greatest leap has been among New Yorkers needing cash assistance, a figure that has exploded by more than 50% to about half a million people.
I used to follow Cash Jordan years ago, when he basically did just real estate videos. Unfollowed him when he transitioned to opinion pieces. Basically every video he put up was title along the lines of “ is this the end of NY?” You can only do so many videos about the imminent collapse of NYC before it becomes apparent that you’re peddling click bait about the same nonsense that just isn’t true.
The city has it’s problems. And I do believe there is some truth to statements that city policies contribute to our current issues. But the exaggerated extreme position that the City’s demise is just around the corner due to crime, migrants, homelessness, is just that; an exaggeration based on anecdotal evidence. Yes, NYC has many problems, but at the end of the day, it’s still one of the safest, if not the safest, major city in the country and continues to be, the prominent economic engine of the country. And that’s not changing anytime soon.
They can’t /don’t want to admit that they’re wrong. I’ve presented these same people with data straight from the city and they conveniently ignore it. Notice they never respond with why something is wrong. They just claim it is.
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NYC is basically giving out free candy to homeless junkies with no repercussions. Even local politicians and supporters are fed up w/the rising crime and quality of life problems from being around these degenerates.
Homelessness in NYC is not like homelessness in other countries which have starving peasants or shantytowns. Homelessness in NYC - or the greater USA - exists because the homeless made a very conscious choice to live outside the rules of normal society. They are capable but unwilling of working, keeping a set schedule, trying to be responsible for others in their lives. Instead, they are very selfish and think only of their own pleasures. I do have sympathy for some who are trying to fix their lives but many are just living moment by moment with no real life planning.
David D’Alessio has lived in Harlem for 10 years, just a few blocks away from OnPoint’s location. (It has another outpost uptown in Washington Heights.) He commutes with his daughter daily to her elementary school from the subway station at East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue and says he’s seen changes around the neighborhood since OnPoint opened, and not for the better.
“I have witnessed things I’ve never seen before,” D’Alessio wrote in an email to THE CITY: “including brazenly open dealing, people defecating (in broad daylight), users with needles openly using injection drugs … and even a man receiving oral sex between parked cars.”
He added that he saw all of that within “a radius of one block from OnPoint NYC during operating hours.”
THE CITY reported in May that once OnPoint NYC closes for the day, the subway station nearby becomes a refuge for those who want a safe place to inject narcotics. The NYPD, the FDNY, the MTA and OnPoint NYC officials have labeled this a problem, with MTA CEO Janno Lieber and Mayor Adams both saying that OnPoint sites should remain open 24/7.
Testing Ground
To musician and local resident Jermaine Armstead, this is the last thing the neighborhood needs. Armstead referenced the late Lou Reed’s lyrics from the 1967 Velvet Underground song “Waiting for the Man,” while discussing his dislike of OnPoint’s supervised injection center.
“He talked about coming up to Harlem, to Lexington 125, to cop heroin, right?,” said Armstead. “And that area is still the same. It’s because it’s overly saturated with these methadone clinics that don’t work, right? So I think that the safe injection site was like the icing or the tipping point for this particular area because now folks can legally go and shoot up.”
Many of his videos are just sensationalized based on half truths but propaganda is enough to get many people believe the narrative is worse than reality. A lot of his examples are just hitting on the extreme case but not examine what is really going on. NYC keeps a lot of homeless and migrants well fed that’s why they aren’t all squatting or laying in front of your doorsteps. Sure there are many homeless out there because those have mental illness and don’t want to be helped. But NYC just keeps spending money in the wrong places and not properly auditing or ensure the right care is provided and it’s very expensive. Very hard to find workers who cared and not underpaid to do social services. Meanwhile a lot of hypocrites like some in my family believes they paid enough taxes so it’s not their problem and let the city deal with it.
Many of his videos are just sensationalized based on half truths but propaganda is enough to get many people believe the narrative is worse than reality. A lot of his examples are just hitting on the extreme case but not examine what is really going on. NYC keeps a lot of homeless and migrants well fed that’s why they aren’t all squatting or laying in front of your doorsteps. Sure there are many homeless out there because those have mental illness and don’t want to be helped. But NYC just keeps spending money in the wrong places and not properly auditing or ensure the right care is provided and it’s very expensive. Very hard to find workers who cared and not underpaid to do social services. Meanwhile a lot of hypocrites like some in my family believes they paid enough taxes so it’s not their problem and let the city deal with it.
When taking care of the *homeless* becomes a business, there is no incentive to solve the problem. The only incentive is to perpetuate it.
Hence, *taking care of the homeless* should either not be done at all or taken care of by in-house state authorities who are incentivized to limit the number of homeless in order to use the budget for other means.
When taking care of the *homeless* becomes a business, there is no incentive to solve the problem. The only incentive is to perpetuate it.
Hence, *taking care of the homeless* should either not be done at all or taken care of by in-house state authorities who are incentivized to limit the number of homeless in order to use the budget for other means.
While it is a big business, it takes a recession to reset these kinds of excess spending. We're long due for a heavy recession not sure we're ready for. Because of constant Fed QE and printing it allowed for budgets to keep supporting all kinds of spending programs and never and cuts.
Since 2008, there hasn't been serious government cutbacks because they no longer care about slashing costs when the Fed can support spending programs through QE and printing. Either the government increases taxes to pay for it while printing is an indirect taxes to all people.
"DHS’ projected Fiscal 2024 Budget of $4.1 billion represents 3.8 percent of the City’s proposed
Fiscal 2024 Budget in the Executive Plan. DHS’ Fiscal 2024 Budget increased by a remarkable $1.8
billion, or 75.3 percent, from the Preliminary Plan when it was $2.3 billion. "
NYC Taxpayers pay the Department of Homeless Services BILLIONS per year and we still have homelessness.
It's not a matter of needing more money, it's just a business now and NYC is never going to solve it. Too much money to be made in salaries and contracts
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