{"id":238276,"date":"2021-04-29T05:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:13:07","slug":"thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/","title":{"rendered":"#Thanks to lefty leaders, New York celebrates worst vices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ea337652e2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ea337652e2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#GLUTTONY\" >GLUTTONY\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#LUST\" >LUST\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#ENVY\" >ENVY\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#SLOTH\" >SLOTH\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#GREED\" >GREED\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#WRATH\" >WRATH\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanks-to-lefty-leaders-new-york-celebrates-worst-vices\/#PRIDE\" >PRIDE\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Thanks to lefty leaders, New York celebrates worst vices<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John Lindsay, the clueless rich-boy-turned-mayor of this little burg in the crumbling late \u201960s, famously, if unintentionally, coined the phrase \u201cFun City\u201d back in the \u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d era (1966-1973), over which he presided so oafishly, it\u2019s as if Bill de\u2009Blasio took his sad mayoralty as a playbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now the era of fear, filth and fiscal fallacy is back, but Fun City is a tired nickname. The proper sobriquet for NYC is now Sin City. As in: the Seven Deadlies. De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo have decided to go along with every-born-in-the-\u201990s bolshie and forge a collection of policies out of the idea that \u201cNew York was better before it got so sanitized.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, safety sucks, New York is much cooler when walking after dark means gripping your keys tightly in your hand in case you have to fend off an attacker, amirite, ladies? Consider the sins New York is now welcoming:\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GLUTTONY\"><\/span>GLUTTONY\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Alcohol consumption is way up, so is gorging on chocolate, and 60 percent of us gained an average of 29 pounds. But let\u2019s talk about municipal gluttony, too. With makeshift homeless encampments all over the sidewalks, men sleeping on the train, trash spilling out of receptacles and streets being cleaned half as often as in 2019, our tax dollars sure aren\u2019t being spent on keeping things safe and orderly, are they? City spending goes to city bureaucrats, and they are gorging themselves now that de Blasio has announced a staggering $99 billion budget for a population of 8.4 million. That\u2019s more than Florida, which has 21 million people! If you live in the five boroughs, your state and municipal governments are spending more than $300 billion a year so that bureaucrats can stuff themselves. By contrast, if you live in the city of Los Angeles, your city spends $10.5 billion (LA is half the size of NYC) and your state a paltry $165 billion. California has twice as many people as New York state. Goodbye, belt-tightening. New York has thrown away its belt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Bill de Blasio knows no limits when it comes to spending.\" class=\"wp-image-18100281 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/lefty-leaders-ny-celebrates-the-worst-090.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/lefty-leaders-ny-celebrates-the-worst-090.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/lefty-leaders-ny-celebrates-the-worst-090.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/lefty-leaders-ny-celebrates-the-worst-090.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/lefty-leaders-ny-celebrates-the-worst-090.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bill de Blasio knows no limits when it comes to spending.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"LUST\"><\/span>LUST\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Porn use boomed when people were forced to stay home with nothing but their computers for company, but the old-fashioned retail sex trade just got a big boost, too, when Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. said he will no longer prosecute prostitutes. More women than ever will be exploited by pimps and traffickers who, of course, keep all of the money they earn. And your kids get to learn what all of this looks like while they\u2019re going to Starbucks as hooking comes out of the shadows and right out into the open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18101261 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/112120pimphooker2CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/112120pimphooker2CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/112120pimphooker2CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/112120pimphooker2CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/112120pimphooker2CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"ENVY\"><\/span>ENVY\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With a stepped-up new tax on rich people, and an extension of the \u201ctemporary\u201d millionaire\u2019s tax enacted after the 2008 financial crisis that now looks permanent, sticking it to our betters is official. Problem: rich people can live elsewhere, and take the tax revenue they provide with them. Moreover, bitter people who were stuck in their apartments throughout the crisis are seething with contempt for their returning neighbors \u2014 the New Yorkers who are wealthy enough to afford houses out of town and wisely made use of them during the pandemic to increase <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> distancing and stop the spread. The Brooklyn guy who wrote a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/11\/opinion\/coronavirus-leave-new-york.html\">New York Times op-ed<\/a> entitled, \u201cThey Escaped During the Pandemic. Now They Must Pay,\u201d speaks for a million young fussbudgets who are pissed off by the idea that some people have spent the last year being insufficiently miserable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SLOTH\"><\/span>SLOTH\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some 80,000 New York City workers still haven\u2019t gone back to their offices. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ve been working super-hard at home, though. More than 60 percent of public-school students haven\u2019t returned to the classroom. Why bother? Many of them discover that if they do show up, all they get is \u201cZoom in a Room\u201d because many teachers are staying home to teach from their sofas. Meanwhile, restaurant workers who get fat unemployment packages of $805 a week are actively choosing unemployment despite the labor shortage. Maybe legalizing pot will reinvigorate people\u2019s desire to work? Good plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GREED\"><\/span>GREED\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After Cuomo legalized online sports betting in New York, you won\u2019t even need to find your way to the nearest casino to start throwing away your money on get-rich quick bets. Those $805 unemployment checks we\u2019re all paying for? They\u2019re just a few Giants and Jets losses away from being pocketed by Big Gaming. On the big-bucks side of the income spectrum, a combination of lockdown boredom and the stock-market bubble is making people gamble real bucks on cr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y joke stocks called \u201cstonks\u201d and even put their cash into joke currency (\u201cDogecoin\u201d). The S&amp;P 500 is up more than 300 percent in the last 10 years; the air is thick with \u00admoneyfrenzy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"WRATH\"><\/span>WRATH\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>New Yorkers have always taken pride in not suffering fools gladly, but 2020 must have been the angriest year on record. If every police killing within a 2,000-mile radius could potentially lead to days of rioting in New York, though, we seem to have reached a whole new basal level of anger. As for daily, nonpolitical rage, that\u2019s off the charts: after a nauseating 97 percent increase in shootings last year, crime is still going up. Last week in the city, there were 50 people shot in 46 separate incidents over seven days, up from 12 shootings in the same week last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Police at the seen of a shooting in the Bronx. Shootings continue to rise in the Big Apple.\" class=\"wp-image-18100300 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/shooting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/shooting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/shooting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/shooting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/shooting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Police at the seen of a shooting in the Bronx. Shootings continue to rise in the Big Apple.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">G.N.Miller\/NYPost<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"PRIDE\"><\/span>PRIDE\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>OK, so 20,215,750 of us aren\u2019t feeling that customary New York arrogance so much, so the remaining one will have to make it up. And he\u2019s doing it! In a disaster year that wound up leaving Cuomo the highest-paid governor in the history of the United States, the guy who once named a bridge after his dad and boasted, \u201cI am the love gov\u201d to his brother on CNN just before 10 women accused him of sexual harassment, Cuomo wrote a book praising his own pandemic management. Sure, it was fine to order taxpayer-funded employees to put it together for him so he could rake in $65 per book and accept an Emmy award for his awesome transparency while he was covering up thousands of senior-citizen deaths he helped cause by forcing nursing homes to take patients carrying a lethal virus. Meanwhile, he chased so many people away that New York lost a congressional seat and an electoral vote, both of which it would have retained if \u00adCuomo could have persuaded just 89 more people to stay. You could say Cuomo has chutzpah, but if you did he\u2019d probably just mock you for being one of \u201cthese people and their f\u2013king treehouses.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Gov. Cuomo's arrogance has somehow grown during a pandemic and multiple scandals.\" class=\"wp-image-18100309 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/cuomo-2-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/cuomo-2-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/cuomo-2-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/cuomo-2-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/cuomo-2-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. 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