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Bill de Blasio Inaugurated As 109th Mayor Of New York City - Live Webcast
Despite his various "nanny-state" failings (all of which have been prominently featured on these pages in the past) outgoing New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has had an impressive track record: New York crime rates are at historic lows, the $72.7 billion budget is balanced, jobs are at an all-time high and a record 54 million tourists pumped money into the economy this year. Homicides have declined by almost 50 percent since Bloomberg became mayor in 2002, and this year’s total of 333 through Dec. 29 is 20 percent below last year’s record low. Of course, how much of this is due to Bloomberg's own actions and how much due to the "rising tide" wealth effect resulting from the Fed's actions that gentrified New York over the past 20 years thanks to Fed wealth-effect boosting policies and which have led to a perilously unstable financial system, is a different question. Regardless, as of midnight the billionaire mayor is no more. His replecament, Bill de Blasio, 52, is the first democrat to run City Hall in 20 years.
Bill de Blasio was sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City on Wednesday, a few minutes after midnight, but his formal inauguration ceremony on the steps of City Hall is scheduled to begin at noon.
With the arrival of de Blasio to the city's top post, it means that Democratic mayors will preside over Los Angeles; Chicago; Houston; Philadelphia; Phoenix; San Antonio; Dallas; San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; and Jacksonville, Florida.
And while de Blasio may have gained prominence in recent days following his proposal to ban horse carriages in Central Park with comments that "we are going to get rid of horse carriages, period," adding that the practice is inhumane, this decision will hardly impact the country's most populous city, his other choices will. Chief among them, pledging to reduce income inequality and restrain aggressive police tactics.
Who is de Blasio? Ironically, here is Bloomberg's take on the new mayor.
In de Blasio, New York voters chose a Cambridge, Massachusetts-bred Boston Red Sox fan who arrived in the city as a New York University undergraduate. He received a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University. He then worked for a Catholic relief organization, for which he distributed food and medicine on a 10-day trip to Nicaragua.
De Blasio’s career in city politics began as an aide to former Mayor David Dinkins in 1990. He first won election as a Brooklyn school board member in 1999, and served two terms as City Councilman from 2002 to 2009, where he focused on child abuse and the homeless as chairman of its general welfare committee, before getting elected to the citywide watchdog post of public advocate in 2009.
The new mayor's top priority: redistributing wealth.
De Blasio’s task, as he describes it, will be to focus on improving the lives of the 46 percent of New Yorkers with incomes at or below 150 percent of the city’s poverty level, or $46,000 for a four-person household in 2011. He seeks more income distribution in a city where the richest 1 percent took home 39 percent of all earnings in 2012, up from 12 percent in 1980, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York-based research group.
In a City Council with 48 Democrats among its 51 members, the overwhelming majority has expressed support for de Blasio’s agenda, including a resolution asking the state legislature to enact the tax increase. De Blasio defeated Republican Joseph Lhota in the mayoral race by 49 percentage points, the widest victory margin by a non-incumbent in city history.
Under de Blasio’s plan, the tax rate on incomes above $500,000 would rise to 4.4 percent from almost 3.9 percent. For the 27,300 city taxpayers earning $500,000 to $1 million, the average increase would be $973 a year, according to the Independent Budget Office, a municipal agency.
“We must first admit that the affordability crisis exists, and then resolve, together, to do something about it,” he said in an October speech to the Association for a Better New York, a group of corporate executives.
He’s also vowed to create 200,000 units of below-market “affordable housing” in the next 10 years, partly by using a $1 billion investment from city pension funds. On Dec. 23, he appointed Alicia Glen, the head of urban investment for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., as deputy mayor for housing and economic development to work out low-cost financing for the construction.
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“Instead of pouring billions of dollars into unnecessary and overly generous tax incentives for big corporations, we need to invest in small businesses, in workforce training, and in the City University of New York -- the most reliable pathways for those seeking a shot at entering the middle class,” de Blasio said in the speech to the business group.
Whether de Blasio will succeed where so many other wealth redistributors before him have failed remains to be seen. But first, here is his inauguration. At noon, a ceremony on the steps of City Hall will feature former President Bill Clinton. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, also will attend. De Blasio worked in the Clinton administration as a regional director of Housing and Urban Development and managed Hillary Clinton’s successful 2000 campaign for U.S. senator from New York. Consistent with the themes de Blasio pushed during his campaign, he set aside 1,000 free tickets for the public for the ceremonial swearing-in.
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I suspect New York probably needs a new mayor already...
His first words... I AM NOT A CROOK.
Might as get that denial out of the way.
and I only smoke crack occaissonly, when in a drunken stupor.
New Yorker's are dangerously stupid.
Instead of seceding, cant we just remove them from 'Merika and start the transformation back to a productive society.
Chicago, San Fran. and Phiily to follow
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As a former New Yorker, I approve this message.
I sent a text to all my buddies now living in the city congratulating them on their new mayor........All I got back was silence.
Don't forget Berkeley and Madison.
Oh, and all the people living on 5 square miles of real estate surrounding any Ivy League school.
Boulder Colorado near Univ of CO. It is just not Ivy Schools. Universities allow liberals to remain children (in their minds) for life.
Add Detoilet to the list.
one would have to be in somekind of stupor, to live in such a place.....
a Clinton associate ... what could go wrong ??
This guy is a loon. Taxes and free stuff to skyrocket.
they should frontrun the whole weed movement and legalize coke instead
Even scarier is the fact he was associated with Dinkins, who almost ran the city into the ground.
Personally I can't wait untill SUNY gives him Long Island College Hospital. DeB bought 1500 union votes there... those people serve about 15 patients. Featherbedding, bitchez, losing 25 millon benniebux per month.
why are they bringing seinfeld charactors into this..dinkins.. next we will be hearing about bob sacamanno...oh..what..hes real, the non fat yogur.....nevermind
And the supposedly wealthy, successful population who will pay for all his free shit for the dangerously stupid, will plummet. They have the means to pack their shit and take their tax $$$ elsewhere! All the recent election results are showing that "the majority" of Americans ARE dangerously RETARDED! The rest of us just have to hope we have enough wealth and have it hidden well enough to get through this shit!
Great news for CT and NJ real estate.
" give us your rich and productive"
Yeah but if you work in NYC you get dinged with NYC income tax no matter where you live.
Midstate and upstate NY will be expected to pick up the tab for this Marxist's agenda and the resulting disaster.
This guy makes "Carlos Danger" seem rational. Poor New York.
Poor? Hey, they voted for him. May they get it in spades. I got no more remorse for Americans. Ignorance and apathy are why we are where we are now and every American is guilty of one or the other, myself included.
In the big cities, it's not 47%, it's well over that.
It's one gang of criminals vs another.
DeBlasio and his agenda are being co-opted by the Democratic establishment, so look for the very Left stuff to serve as garnish, not entrée.
The only wing that will stop the Clintons belongs to Liz Warren. Her allies will be stripped from her; DeBlasio would be a natural ally but he is on the Clinton plantation. DeBlasio will rule as an oligarch with populist characteristics, and blob up the truly revolutionary factions.
Another asshole.
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sandy helped a lot too.
Bloomberg's main achievement was illegally stopping and frisking 1800 New Yorkers every day of his term. And the not-so-secret stop-and-frisk quota for every New York cop.
He also brought in drones and the Israeli miltary and police to train NY cops, the Israelification of the NYPD.
Bloomberg made New York safe for fascism. WTF does the NYPD need a branch in Israel?
In early September 2012, the New York Police Department (NYPD) opened an Israeli branch at the Sharon District Police Headquarters in the Israeli coastal city of Kfar Saba. The NYPD decision to open an Israeli branch rested on the fact that the Israeli police is one of the major police forces with which it must maintain close work relations and daily contact.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/homeland.html
“Given the amount of training the NYPD and so many other police forces have received from Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus,” Blumenthal concludes, “and the profuse levels of gratitude American police chiefs have expressed to their Israeli mentors, it is worth asking how much Israeli instruction has influenced the way the police have attempted to suppress the Occupy movement, and how much it will inform police repression of future upsurges of street protest. But already, the Israelification of American law enforcement appears to have intensified police hostility towards the civilian population, blurring the lines between protesters, common criminals, and terrorists.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/04/report-israeli-model-underlies-militarization-of-u-s-police/
and don't forget making illegal drinking big sodas
Bloomberg's & NYC's financial success came at the expense of making places like Gary, IN & Joilet, IL unlivable 3rd world shitholes.
Those closest to the fed money spigot prosper most. The other white and uneducated blacks in middle america can off themselves for all Sociopaths like Bloomberg & de Blasio care.
Despicable humans those two are
"Those closest to the fed money spigot prosper most"
Well, they are opening branches in Israel lol. Oops, I shouldn't have said that.
I read that Joliet, IL has some free accomodations for the politically incorrect.
Bloomberg's & NYC's financial success came at the expense of making places like Gary, IN & Joilet, IL unlivable 3rd world shitholes.
Seriously? Are you trying to be funny or do you really believe this? If the latter, what color is the sun on your planet?
Fuck yeah! If you have ever been to Ashburn Virginia you would see for yourself. Prosperity and wealthy gubmint tit suckers as far as the eye can see!
The well funded NYC urban renewal project called 9/11 helped and it 'only' cost 3,000 lives.
As of today 2,121 'nutball' architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation of the destruction of the 3 WTC towers on 9/11 http://www.ae911truth.org/
Happy New Year
Anyone with an undergraduate degree in chemistry, physics, or engineering would have to be under total mind control to believe the government conspiracy theory. The two drone controlled airliner crashes and the kerosine and furniture upper story smudge fires were just a diversionary tactic for a highly professional, radio controlled demolition of the three towers. It shows the contempt that the Owners have for our typical mental acuity. Unfortunately, the past dozen years shows that their contempt was well warranted. Means, motive, and opportunity!
"The two drone controlled airliner crashes and the kerosine and furniture upper story smudge fires were just a diversionary tactic for a highly professional, radio controlled demolition of the three towers."
There is a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
"There is a bridge in Brooklyn for sale."
I was gonna suggest that you buy it, but it looks as if you already have.
"There is a bridge in Brooklyn for sale."
"I was gonna suggest that you buy it, but it looks as if you already have."
Sold to you Igi.
The people that are still living who had knowledge and orchestrated the 9/11 NYC attack should be executed by .22 swiftly and then judged at their trial for treason and murder. Those that supoort the murder should also be punished with public flogging or other sentences according to severity. Ignorance should not be considered as valid defense. The 9/11 commision and those that profited should swing from rope. That's a perfect fucking quanataitve utopia with fairies and pixie dust. Faggots.
"As of today 2,121 'nutball' architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation of the destruction of the 3 WTC towers on 9/11 http://www.ae911truth.org/"
David Chandler claimed that a horizontal plume of smoke was evidence of a cutter charge. Cutter charges don't cause a horizontal plume of smoke. He also claimed it was emanating from the corner of WTC1, when it was exiting a window or windows on the west side.
If you are an engineer, I hope you signed on as well.
i'm amazed more of us haven't.
Even the newest laptop dependent graduate should be able to discern how every
tenet of structural design,and experience was broken.
"If you are an engineer, I hope you signed on as well.
i'm amazed more of us haven't.
Even the newest laptop dependent graduate should be able to discern how every
tenet of structural design, and experience was broken."
So you are saying the buildings shouldn't have withstood the fires.
Paid Troll or desparate culprit... which is it?
"Paid Troll or desparate culprit... which is it?"
Neither.
We'll have to go with blind idiot then.
Name calling aside (counter-productive), explain the 2.25 seconds of absolute free fall collapse of WTC 7 primarily by fire? (NIST)
edit: (crickets)
The Bloomberg rat left the ship. The city implodes, if interest rates rise and/or the market crashes from pension underfunding. Who'll pay to nurture and support those in the 200,000 new "affordable" housing? The new rat-in-charge promises to take from other rats. Is there trust among rats?
When they say, "affordable housing", what do they actually mean?
1. Low price tag, no strings attached
or
2. High price tag plus we lend money whether or not anyone can afford to repay it
???
Speaking of low prices: "Built to last a life time" or "Shit starts breaking five years later" ???
Sociopath Rising.
Bloomeberg was one of NYC's better mayors. Although far from perfect, he did improve things considerably. Rather than expand on Bloomberg's successes, the new mayor will trash them all and bring NYC down again.
"With the arrival of de Blasio to the city's top post, it means that Democratic mayors will preside over Los Angeles; Chicago; Houston; Philadelphia; Phoenix; San Antonio; Dallas; San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; and Jacksonville, Florida." Funny how alll these cities are, shall we say, in a wee bit of trouble. Redistribution of wealth has a perfect track record of failing miserably.
Now that France can now legally tax the wealthy at a 75% rate, I wonder what will happen there. Oh, wait... I already know!
You left Detroit off of your list. 50 years of Democrat administraation and only $18 billion in debt. Can't even blame the Jews for Detroit.
John Vliet DeBlasio
New York has an advantage the other cities don't- they have their lips clamped firmly around the national money spigot. They build nothing and do nothing of any real value that is sold elsewhere.
Once that ends, much of the country will cheer when it implodes.
Bill de Blasio
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2592
way to go new yawkers.........
New York City has a youth poet laureate? Do they have a rapper laureate?
Reverse gentrify that hell hole. Arrest Bloomberg for conspiracy. Don't let him get away.
"Reverse Gentrification"
NYC meme for the next few years - Catchy!
Lets start the insanity.
Bloomberg sold New York to The Oligarchs. A few handfuls own the most crucial and valuble real estate and businesses. And most are absentee landlords, spending most of their time in gentler locals or in their native countires. The social fabric of the city disintegrated, the middle class barely exists, Millenials are bunking up to 3 together in a studio. Tolls on most access points to Manhattan rose to $15. Biflationary forces: lower incomes combined with higher cost of living, working and apartment ownership will ensure that none but the oligarchs, their cronies and servantry can survive. Gary IN is looking better and better for the refugee masses!
"... jobs are at an all-time high and a record 54 million tourists pumped money into the economy this year."
Must be an economic boom going on. A record number of tourists when people are supposed to have less money to spend.
'New' mayor? Pffft. Same shit, different bag.
"The new mayor's top priority: redistributing wealth."
That puts him in line with Wall Street, who's top priority is redistributing wealth.
exactly. redistributed TO the 1%.
What a giant clown this guy is. He appears to have lived his life for the sole purpose of looking politically correct. Marxists like this bozo are willing to loot and sacrifice the productive to keep their own evil power. They are the leaders of the mob and no law will stand in their way when in comes to confiscating the property of others who have worked hard for what they have.
In one of his first speeches as mayor-elect, de Blasio again visited Al Sharpton's National Action Network and stated: “Every year Reverend Sharpton is becoming stronger as a leader, is reaching farther as a leader. You never have to wonder if he will remember where he came from, and he’ll be the first one up to stand up for justice. I gotta tell you guys, he’s a blessing for all of us. Let’s thank Reverend Sharpton.”
" Marxists like this bozo are willing to loot and sacrifice the productive to keep their own evil power. They are the leaders of the mob and no law will stand in their way when in comes to confiscating the property of others who have worked hard for what they have."
"The program, The Retirement Gamble, showed how if you work for 50 years and receive the typical long-term return of 7 percent on your 401(k) plan and your fees are 2 percent, almost two-thirds of your account will go to Wall Street."
the only reason he won was because of his interracial family and his sons gimmick hairstyle
It would be funny if the kid now took off a wig and pulled off a mask to reveal that he is a straight haired, pimply, white kid.
Or one of those alien lizard overlords?
So you are saying he "dragged out his Black family for political reasons?"
Heard yesterday that only 17% of Yawkers voted. I know I know voting is a waste of time. Well we shall see if history reverses itself for the first time in and this Marxist puss doesn't run that city into the ground.
Oh and Murders down to 333 this year..How quaint.
In August 2013, de Blasio received the endorsement of the billionaire financier George Soros, who contributed the legal limit of $4,950 to the campaign. Soros’ relationship with de Blasio actually dated back to 2011, when Soros had given $400,000 to de Blasio’s Coalition for Accountability in Political Spending.
SSDD
Bloomberg can take credit for beating the First Amendment out of existence in NYC.
Freedom is the price of security.
Fucking Nazi Scumbag, Inc.
Cheer up WB, de Blasio will reverse all that.
hey bill, would you mind posting big soda is watching?
one of my favs from last year, but can't find it on your flickr.
come to think about it, Bloomberger wasn't too friendly to any of the bill of rights, 1st and 2nd amendments in particular, kinda liked illegal searches too if I recall. What a guy.....
so, same old same old out there in NYC
If you count financial crime, New York crime is off the charts.
++++
The crime capitol of the world (aka nyc) was the largest benefactor of government bailouts and other elitist keynesian policies of the last decade. It will have its "1970s decade" again and soon, only this time it will never recover.
Bill Blasio wants stop-and-frisk and public safety reform including:
- Increasing Police Resources
- Expand Camera Use in All Five Boroughs
- "Supporting Commonsense Gun Safety"
his response to the encroaching police state is to shift to other oppressive tactics. I cannot support a mayor who wants to make new-york more like london.
fuck the pigs
http://www.billdeblasio.com/issues/crime-fighting-public-safety
Big-government progressives are often the ugliest sort of law-and-order police-statists. Expect no significant curtailment of abusive police policies (stop-and-frisk included), campaign rhetoric notwithstanding.
Total trash!
While surfing TV on a major network w/o volume for the start of the Rose Bowl Parade, I happened to see deBlasio in what might have been his inaugural speech 3 hours ahead of PST.
Lacking audio, what was evident from facial and body language was someone who looked very belligerent. Regarding his surroundings, there appeared to be an inordinate number of black people, definitely not a racially balanced mixture. Interestingly, at least at the brief time that I looked, none of those blacks showed any semblance of a smile.
Weak, neurotic, self-hating, cowardly to the core "progressives", like your TYPICAL smug, New York liberal ...ahem... believe that if they kiss black ass 24/7, these parasitic thieves will eventually like them.
Look out Detroit, there's a new bankrupt city to replace your status.
Good one!
"Hey, I'm your new mayor, Bill de Blasio, and I'm super-duper progressive because I have a black wife and mullato kid with a huge afro."
Trust me... it's very rare that anything good comes out of Boston.
From one god-awful shit-and-piss town to another.
Barry will have some competition in the "watch me fuck things up" department
Go Bill Go - tell us how to put our pants on please - you fucking train wreck
My favorite Bloomberg story is how he forced the government of Bermuda, where he has his gazillion-dollar hideaway, to allow his army of bodyguards to keep their weapons. (Bermuda is an absolutely no gun kind of place.)
A key aspect of megalomaniacal and dictatorial behavior is a deep belief that the rules do not apply to you.
I think he is going to take a shot at buying 2016, not having any clue how much he is despised and lampooned nationwide.
Blasio is a jew presiding over a jew infested shithole city. Jews can't run shit and everybody knows it. Israel is finished, as is jew run America.
Shithole New York votes for a turd big enough to stop up the toilet.
I'll avoid New York and everything associated with it.
Enjoy your modern day Metropolis!
And the red team goes wild on day one. lmao
Seriously. "Oh noes tax hike on income above $500,000!!" Who gives a crap and why would anyone listen to them anyway?? Quit qweefing.
I can't think of a city more deserving of Mayor Marxist!
Time to move to NYC for some free stuff.
From what I've heard so far, more like Bill De Bloviator
Then again, for someone who started off as an aide in the David "Who me? Pay taxes?" Dinkins Admin. - what could p..pp..ppp.....ppp...possibly g..ggg...go rrrr..rrr..wrong? (OMG!!!!)
except for the higher taxes as protection money, de Blasio will not go after one banker