{"id":538887,"date":"2023-01-11T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:00:19","slug":"real-message-escape-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"#Real message? Escape from New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a2e440c09d2b\" 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-6a2e440c09d2b\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/#%E2%80%9CReal_message_Escape_from_New_York%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Real message? Escape from New York&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/#More_of_the_same\" >More of the same<\/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\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/#Serious_out-migration\" >Serious out-migration<\/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\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/#Nooooo_no_treason_here\" >Nooooo, no treason here!<\/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\/real-message-escape-from-new-york\/#%E2%80%98Tearing_into_Joe\" >\u2018Tearing\u2019 into Joe<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CReal_message_Escape_from_New_York%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Real message? Escape from New York&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n            <\/aside>\n<p>Early in her State of the State address Tuesday, Gov. Hochul cited widespread fears of crime and the sky-high cost of living as threats to New York\u2019s future. She said predictions of a recession mean \u201cwe will not be raising income taxes this year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good, and she followed that with her smartest observation of the day, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re already seeing signs of out-migration that we can no longer ignore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heart be still, maybe she finally gets it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not a chance, not after she spent the next 40 minutes announcing a seemingly endless list of big-spending, big-government programs that would make the state less affordable and less <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>ealing, all while giving Albany bureaucrats vast powers to override local zoning and building laws.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Hochul told Republican opponent Lee Zeldin to \u201cjump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.\u201d Tuesday\u2019s speech upped the ante, effectively telling New Yorkers of every political s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>e in every city, town and village to jump on a bus or a plane and get out of Dodge while they can.<\/p>\n<p>It was that bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/goodwin-344.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A mover puts belongings into a moving truck \" class=\"wp-image-25317790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/goodwin-344.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/goodwin-344.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/goodwin-344.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The governor finally admitted the state is facing an \u201cout-migration\u201d crisis.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To judge by the plan she laid out, the governor is wildly ambitious but deeply confused. A laundry list of ideas and proposals, and a 275-page book with even more of them, does not an agenda make.<\/p>\n<p>Especially not when some items would actually worsen the problems she identified. For example, she talked about \u201crecord\u201d high energy bills across the state, then vowed to \u201cwean ourselves from fossil fuels\u201d while also making electricity cheaper through a subsidy program that seemed to my ears to be funded by a carbon tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calling Professor Irwin Corey!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Even the lefty Legislature, which never met a boondoggle it didn\u2019t declare an absolute necessity for mankind, was underwhelmed by Hochul\u2019s address. The only standing, prolonged ovation it gave her was for a promise to index the state\u2019s minimum-wage law to inflation.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the Legislature likes it \u2014 it\u2019s an idea that\u2019s a proven job killer, especially entry-level jobs. That\u2019s what happens when you impose costs on employers, though nobody in Albany seems to know or care.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the governor got only silence when she ruled out an income-tax hike and said vaguely there was \u201croom for improvement\u201d in the disastrous bail laws that have turned courthouses into revolving doors.<\/p>\n<p>How about a little passion and conviction, Governor? Merely to do a drive-by mention on such fundamental issues tells lawmakers not to worry, she\u2019s not going to declare war if they buck her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The moment captures the basic flaw in Hochul\u2019s tenure. She\u2019s not really a fighter, with her getting rolled repeatedly by legislators from her own party last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-003.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hochul defeated Zeldin in the Nov. election.\" class=\"wp-image-25317104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Last summer, Hochul told Republican opponent Lee Zeldin to \u201cjump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Lamparski\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_of_the_same\"><\/span>More of the same<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Her second year is shaping up as more of the same, with her approval of an obscene salary hike of 29%, to $142,000 for each lawmaker, without getting anything in return. If the state is in such bad shape, why do the people who screwed it up deserve a raise?<\/p>\n<p>At least Hochul could have threatened to veto it unless the Senate agreed to approve her choice for a new chief judge, but she gave away the raise even as Dems pack the judiciary panel with opponents of her nominee, Justice Hector D. LaSalle.<\/p>\n<p>Power \u2014 that\u2019s the only language the Legislature understands. Why is Hochul still behaving like a hesitant beginner?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Moreover, with her convoluted speech, she missed another important opportunity to redefine herself as she begins her own term. Zeldin made the election the closest race in two decades largely on his promise to focus on cutting crime and taxes and generating jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hochul had little to say on anything and spent most of the campaign in hiding, emerging only in the final weeks and only when surrounded by national Democrats, such as President Biden and Hillary Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closeness of the race in deep blue New York ought to have schooled her on the public mood. At one point Tuesday, she appeared to recognize that she was serving up a stew of unremarkable ingredients, saying, \u201cToday I\u2019m proposing another <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of proposals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the recognition, if that\u2019s what it was, didn\u2019t matter. Because she\u2019s for everything, she\u2019s for nothing. Which is probably what she will accomplish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the tragedy because, having identified the key issues of public safety, affordability, jobs and taxes, she should have built an agenda around restoring the state\u2019s economic engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-005.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Gov. Kathy Hochul\" class=\"wp-image-25317100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-005.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-005.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/col-goodwin-hochul-zeldin-005.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hochul gave a salary hike of 29%, to $142,000 for each lawmaker.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Serious_out-migration\"><\/span>Serious out-migration<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Take the out-migration issue, where New York saw the greatest population decline of any state, according to Census data. Hochul concedes the seriousness of the drain, saying in her New Year\u2019s Day inaugural that \u201cwe must reverse the trend of people leaving our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Repeating that idea Tuesday suggested she aims to do something big enough to not only keep people here, especially high earners, but also to make the state attractive to working- and middle-class families.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Charter schools, for instance, \u00adoffer an oasis in many neighborhoods where regular district schools operate as union-dominated failure factories. But if the speech was any indication, expanding quality public-education options is not a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there was nothing in the entire speech that would indicate a sharp course correction. Anything worthwhile, such as a commitment to 1,000 new psychiatric beds, was offset by larger doses of more of the same poison that is killing jobs and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The most alarming proposal involved a goal of getting 800,000 new housing units over a decade. The number is attractive, but how she would get there seemed to scare even many legislators.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the idea a \u201chousing compact,\u201d Hochul accused local officials across the state of blocking new development, often for \u201cno legitimate reasons.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her cure is for the state to set a mandate, saying \u201cevery single \u00adlocality will have a\u00a0target for new housing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If any proposed development is rejected, the state will examine why and, if necessary, approve it despite local objection. She also insisted that every town with a commuter rail line must rezone to allow new development within a half-mile of the train station.<\/p>\n<p>Without irony, she described this process as one of communities \u201cgetting help from the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she still doesn\u2019t know that one of the three biggest lies is when someone says, \u201cI\u2019m from the government and I\u2019m here to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nooooo_no_treason_here\"><\/span>Nooooo, no treason here!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Unable to ignore reports that classified documents were found in a former office of Joe Biden\u2019s,\u00a0The AP did its best to downplay the significance, describing the find as merely \u201can unexpected wrinkle\u201d in the Trump document probe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What happened to fears of treason and Armageddon? Where did they go?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Tearing_into_Joe\"><\/span>\u2018Tearing\u2019 into Joe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Patrick Turimike wants Speaker Kevin McCarthy to pull a Nancy Pelosi, with a twist: He writes: \u201cMcCarthy should tear up the president\u2019s State of the Union speech while Biden is still speaking. That would throw him off.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Escape from New York&#8221; Early in her State of the State address Tuesday, Gov. Hochul cited widespread fears of crime and the sky-high cost of living as threats to New York\u2019s future. She said predictions of a recession mean \u201cwe will not be raising income taxes this year.\u201d\u00a0 So far, so good, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":538888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/goodwin-index-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[138335,70865,991,98806,71228,91261,88916],"class_list":["post-538887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-11-23","tag-government-spending","tag-joe-biden","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-migrants","tag-recession","tag-state-of-the-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}