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Nope. Not happening. Can’t do it. Not feeling it.
My family feels like trapped prisoners living in the People’s Republic of New York. I despise how elected officials are destroying our state. We don’t leave because our kids are young. We don’t want to rip them away from relatives. Children are the only reason why we stay.
New York State is on the precipice of financial ruin, facing a $10 billion deficit.
That’s not stopping Governor Kathy Hochul from piling on the spending, signing a bill that creates a reparations commission that could give millions of dollars for each person that’s a descendant of slaves.
Slavery ended in New York in 1827.
Governor Hochul doesn’t care for the mistreatment of other groups, considering the reparations legislation she signed ignored the five Native Americans tribes living on ten reservations across the state.
Under fiscal implications of this reparations bill, politicians used one word to describe the potential cost: “Undeterminable.” Translation: we have a blank check.
Cops and teachers might get cut in the Big Apple because New York City already spent $2.4 billion to manage its migrant crisis. Library funding is on the chopping block. Mayor Eric Adams anticipates spending $12 billion in the next three years on the 500 migrants a day that are coming to the city that never sleeps. Asleep or awake, we’re all living a nightmare in New York.
Other costs of the migrant crisis to our communities are incalculable. Just ask the woman who police and prosecutors said was brutally raped by a migrant in front of her three-year-old daughter in Cheektowaga, New York.
New York State Assemblyman David DiPietro summed up New York’s dire state of affairs in the South Shore Press last week in one sentence: “New York is burning and politicians are fiddling.”
Never fear though. Radical progressive lawmakers have a laser-like focus on solving our problems. They’re proposing significant legislation that forces Chick-Fil-A to open seven days a week at Thruway rest stops.
You read that correctly. New York is going to hell in a handbasket, but lawmakers are focused on a faith-based fast food joint that closes on Sundays so workers can spend time with family and go to church.
Regulating the sale of chicken sandwiches, driving the government further into the depths of bankruptcy with potential reparations payments, and sticking their heads in the sand surrounding the migrant crisis is their priority.
Elections have consequences. This calamity is the direct result of voters solidifying one-party rule here. Checks and balances do not exist. Lord John Dalberg-Acton’s words written in 1887 ring true today: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Things are going to get worse in 2024 before they get better. Another bill Governor Hochul signed into law shifts most local elections to even years when Democratic turnout is significantly higher (Gubernatorial and Presidential cycles) than odd years.
We have two options to fix this mess:
1) Elect Republicans for Governor or elect a Republican State Senate Majority to create a balance of power in government
2) Leave
Many families are choosing option #2. Most recently released United States Census data shows New York lost the most population of any state in America.
My family may not be far behind.
Happy New Year New York. You deserve the dumpster fire our state has become. Bah Humbug.