New York City shootings skyrocketed by 177% in July, according to police data. Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday night that the staggering increase in the Big Apple’s violent crime was due to not getting “help” from the federal government in order to keep city workers on the payroll.
“We are seeing this all over, cities all over the nation. It’s been a massive dislocation. People don’t have jobs. There isn’t school. … You talk about every element of our society, Wolf, this is what’s contributing to this massive surge that we’re all experiencing,” he said. “Let’s be clear, the help we need is to make sure we can keep all of our public services – we’re talking about safety, health, education – they’re all on the line now if we do not get federal support soon.”
Speaking of the ongoing stimulus talks in Washington, D.C., de Blasio said he was “very worried.”
“My challenge is, where am I going to have the people to do this work?” he continued. “I may have to do as many layoffs as 22,000 city employees from every department by October 1 if I don’t get federal help.”
Of course, NYC was in bad shape before the pandemic hit. Now they have neither sound finances nor sound minds to see them through.
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Amen to that comment! They have neither sound finances nor found minds to see them through! Priceless !
What happened to all those millions Congress got in the first package for nonsense stuff? The Democrats need to be investigated to see where Pelosi put that money
Blame it where it belongs, the Democrats. And we know who is in charge of the whole thing, Nancy.
He is a child responder not getting his way . With want this time.
Let the citizens get hold of his you know what. They’ll put him out of state in a minute
Can you believe this? After letting these mobs of ANtifa and BLM thugs destroy the city and kill people he now wants us to bail him out. It could have been stopped at the first but he sat back and let murdering thieves take over the city thinking people would blame Trump! Democrats are so haughty they think people are totally stupid and will believe everything they tell them to believe. People need to free themselves from their Massa and get off the damn plantation. I am white and I have been waiting all my life for the black People to get the clue THE DEMOCRATS WERE THE SLAVE OWNERS!!! In 1860 there were 440,000 slaves in this country. Less than 10 of the slave owners were Republicans! The rest were Democrats! Why you vote for them? I don’t get it and I never have!
Get rid of deBlasio. He defunded the police and now wants federal money……. suffer idiot. It’s not the federal governments job to bail you out. You coddled to the bull c**p BLM and they still tore the city up. NYC deserves what they get for electing this worthless POS.