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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/opinion/michael-goodwinmayor-mamdanis-refus   
   al-to-shelter-homeless-new-yorkers-has-gotham-under-mayhem/   
      
   With homeless New Yorkers freezing to death on the streets after Mayor   
   Mamdani foolishly told police and social workers not to break up their   
   encampments and move them to shelters, a friend offers an idea that is   
   consistent with the mayor’s obligations and his dedication to socialism.   
      
   Although Mamdani and his wife lament that Gracie Mansion has no bidets,   
   my tipster notes that the large, city-owned mayoral residence does have   
   lots of unused rooms and spaces.   
      
   Thus, she calls on the city’s first couple to open their hearts — and   
   their doors, so that 10 or even 20 homeless people could safely ride out   
   the brutal winter weather with them.   
      
   Hey comrade, practice what you preach!   
      
   The idea reminds me of a scene from “Doctor Zhivago,” the great 1965   
   flick starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie.   
      
   Set during World War I and the Russian Revolution, the scene involves   
   Sharif’s character coming home to Moscow during the upheaval.   
      
   His hopes of a happy family reunion are shattered when he learns the   
   Reds have declared that he and his family must share their large home   
   with 30 or 40 other people, some of whom are menacing.   
      
   Ignoring good policy   
   Even if he doesn’t open Gracie’s doors, the horrifying homeless deaths,   
   13 at last count, are just part of Mamdani’s baptism by tragedy and   
   circumstance.   
      
   Enough so that his first month in office can fairly be called the   
   34-year-old nepo baby’s introduction to the real world.   
      
   His political honeymoon was over before it started.   
      
   A look in the mirror would reveal the culprit.   
      
   The homeless deaths are especially revealing of his arrogance.   
      
   Every mayor in the last 40 years has wisely adopted some version of Ed   
   Koch’s policy that the city require people to take shelter, or move them   
   indoors, when they refused or were incapable of making the decision for   
   themselves.   
      
   As one of those mayors, Rudy Giuliani, writes on X, “The policy of NYC   
   before, during, and after I was Mayor was to remove homeless from the   
   streets when it approached freezing. The incumbent Mayor has changed   
   that policy.”   
      
   Another sign that life comes at you fast when you’re the Big Cheese   
   involves Mamdani’s grandiose promises of free this and free that.   
      
   They are drowning in red ink even before he formally proposes them.   
      
   City Comptroller Mark Levine and others seemed to have surprised him by   
   stressing that reports of a $12 billion budget gap for the next 17   
   months are real.   
      
   Mamdani’s initial response was to throw himself a pity party and look   
   for scapegoats instead of solutions.   
      
   “I will be blunt: New York City is facing a serious fiscal crisis,” he   
   said during a press conference, then added: “Former Mayor Eric Adams   
   handed the next administration a poisoned chalice.”   
      
   What, now he’s Macbeth?   
      
   He accused Adams of under-budgeting “services that New Yorkers rely on   
   every single day . . . while quietly leaving behind enormous gaps for   
   the future.”   
      
   In fact, the gaps were no secret, nor was a major cause.   
      
   More than 200,000 foreign migrants Joe Biden waved across the border   
   ended up in New York.   
      
   Far from hiding the cost, which reached $7 billion, Adams warned about   
   it repeatedly and demanded the feds and state share the burden.   
      
   He even warned that the nonstop parade of arrivals and the requirements   
   for City Hall to provide food, shelter and medical care could destroy   
   Gotham.   
      
   Blame game   
   All that was long before Mamdani declared his candidacy, meaning he ran   
   to be mayor knowing the winner would inherit serious financial problems.   
      
   Although budget gaps are a challenge for every new mayor, Mamdani seems   
   to believe he should be exempt.   
      
   Beyond blaming Adams, he also faults the state, saying city taxpayers   
   send more money to Albany than they get back in the form of aid and   
   subsidies.   
      
   He said the city generates roughly 54.5% of state revenue but receives   
   about 40% of state spending, which leaves City Hall with an annual gap   
   of about $8 billion.   
      
   But there’s no law saying every city and town should get back the same   
   amount it sends to Albany.   
      
   If there were, how would state government function?   
      
   Although he labeled the situation a “fiscal emergency,” Mamdani refuses   
   to say what he will do about it, even though he is legally required to   
   present a balanced preliminary budget in about two weeks.   
      
   Finally, late last week, he issued an order requiring every agency to   
   designate a “chief savings officer” to identify possible spending cuts.   
      
   But he immediately raised doubts about how serious he is by returning to   
   his campaign theme of hiking taxes on high income families and   
   corporations.   
      
   Both moves would require state approval, and while the loony-left   
   Legislature would be happy to go along, Gov. Hochul is sounding like a   
   roadblock.   
      
   She’s usually a big supporter of government grabs, as the city   
   congestion tax demonstrates.   
      
   But facing re-election, Hochul is posing as an anti-taxer, saying last   
   week that “I’m not raising taxes for the sake of raising taxes.”   
      
   Her non sequitur is far from persuasive, given her record and her   
   endorsement of Mamdani and his agenda.   
      
   Three weeks ago, she announced a partnership with him to provide free   
   child care for 2-year-olds in the five boroughs, with the state covering   
   the full cost for two years.   
      
   Yet now she realizes that supporting Mamdani’s proposed tax hikes to pay   
   for his other promises, such as free buses and city-owned grocery   
   stores, would hand a powerful argument to her GOP opponent, Nassau   
   County Executive Bruce Blakeman.   
      
   He claims Hochul already has “raised taxes by more than $8 billion and   
   expanded state spending by over $61 billion” since taking office in   
   2021.   
      
   Council counterweight   
   Thankfully, Mamdani is also facing pushback on another front, with   
   council Speaker Julie Menin forming a bipartisan task force on   
   antisemitism that could be a counterweight to the mayor’s obvious   
   anti-Israel bias.   
      
   “Jewish New Yorkers make up roughly 10% of the city’s population, yet   
   last year, they were the victims of more than half of all reported hate   
   crimes,” Menin, the first Jewish speaker, wrote in a Post op-ed.   
      
   She also introduced “Safe Access” bills to have the NYPD set up security   
   perimeters for protests near schools, houses of worship and elsewhere.   
   The zones could require protestors to stay as much as 100 feet away from   
   entrances.   
      
   She emphasized that there is no aim to block protests, merely to create   
   safe zones so people can enter and leave without being blocked or   
   harassed.   
      
   The fact that there is a need for the measures speaks to Mamdani’s   
   antipathy toward Israel.   
      
      
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