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[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

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“I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.”

That is a city council member, describing what Bitcoiners have said about the entire system since the very beginning.

Politicians do not fix anything.

They simply play a fixed game with our tax dollars and destroy our ability to survive (to act, and to purchase) in the process.

What we have is:

1. A money printer which acts as the central tool and weapon for coercion.

2. Politicians and bankers who get to use this tool to their own advantage.

3. A system of voting to convince the public that we have agency and “a say.”

4. The consequences of it all that simply continue over and over and over with no end.

Nothing improves. Nothing gets fixed. The lives of the haves get better. The lives of the have nots get worse and on we go.

It’s simply a modern slavery type of control-structure where our human dignity gets destroyed over time by crooks who’s sole job is to convince us that granting them the power they have is for our own good.

And EVERYONE is zombie walking through this with crippling apathy and bitterness toward everything BUT the source of the problem.

Believe me, it will get much worse before it gets better.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted:

"I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason.

Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no.

Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it.

We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best.

This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb.

And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so.

What will we do next year? And the year after?

The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget.

But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most.

Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving.

The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here.

We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth.

And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing.

This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care.

And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country.

We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars.

Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything?

It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.

At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability?

The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else.

I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations.

We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money.

Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no."

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@MurrayHillGuy1 No, that life is totally sustainable and fruitful he should continue that way till he’s like 80+.

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@Acyn Pls no thanks. Guys only got two brain cells.

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@NYCMayor Hold that thought and let’s come back to that taste in a few years when several of those buildings have become crack houses, bringing NYC back to the 1970s again.

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For everyone in NYC cheering Mamdani’s rent freeze:

Why would you want your landlord to be financially strained?

The one person responsible for providing the housing and servicing its needs and maintaining its upkeep.

Why would you want that person to be rendered incapable of providing those things?

Don’t you know that as their ability to do that worsens, your ability to live in and enjoy your dwelling lessens?

Or would you rather live in an abandoned crack house like it’s 1975 again?

Asking for a friend.

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@valuesauce @spencerpratt Also, see this post here detailing what actually happened in NYC when property owners could not cover their costs.

Again, it’s really not that hard to grasp.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In the 1960s through 1970s, huge numbers of buildings in New York City were abandoned, because their owners could not make enough money to cover the expense of providing apartments to their tenants, could not legally get rid of their tenants so long as the building stood, and could not sell their buildings because no one wanted an “asset” that permanently lost money month after month. The only non-destructive recourse that they had available was to disappear, and so thousands of buildings eventually had their landlords vanish. A relatively small number of landlords hired arsonists to burn their buildings to the ground, because the destruction of the building was literally the only means by which a lease could be broken, leaving them at least with a vacant lot that didn’t cost them money. Large chunks of the city started to resemble a warzone.

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A housing provider is someone who has put the capital forth to procure the housing… (which is likely priced exorbitantly due to currency debasement, the original source of the entire affordability problem in the first place; which you also likely don’t understand but is a perhaps a separate conversation)… and then taken the risk to use it for investment.

This investment involves maintaining and managing the property for the use of others who will live on the property and therefore pay rent in exchange.

The catch, and what most interventionists seem to never understand, is that the whole operation and investment only works if the “housing provider” or “landlord”(however you wish to call them) can at least break even to recoup the capital they had put into the property in the first place.

Ideally they would bring in more than they had invested, right? Otherwise why do it in the first place. (Duh!)

This would be called “profit.” And profit is good btw, even though collectivists (assuming you are one) routinely demonize it to make themselves feel morally righteous.

But Profit is good because it allows the landlord to continue to provide the housing and to maintain and likely improve the conditions and services in connection with it, for the betterment and benefit of every tenant who lives there.

And this is good for tenants because… well it doesn’t taken a genius to realize that any and every person would rather live in and pay for a well-maintained and well-serviced dwelling.

So far, all of what I said is a moral good because it’s *super nice* when one human can, without restrictions or interference, voluntarily help another and vice versa, no?

But when any intervening act by an outside party happens, that “landlord” becomes less capable of providing the housing and its maintenance needs for tenants. Enter Mamdani and his freezing idea.

In other words, when a government bureaucrat steps in, what they do only exacerbates the problem (landlords ability to provide a good and service) which was created by having intervened in the first place.

Oh and if you think the landlord isn’t providing affordable housing (because housing isn’t affordable these days) because he simply “wants” to, think again.

All the landlord wants is to have more money coming in than going out, so they could keep the roof over your head and the lights on, and you could keep living where you want to live.

It’s really not that hard.

But hopefully that clears it up for you, since you preferred to be so focused on the word the original post used and not the entire point.

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@Andrej24 @valuesauce @spencerpratt Don’t understand how these people cheering for a freeze don’t get it.

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

Enjoying this vacation but I miss my guys lol

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There are Gen-Z folks working in my office who I have never seen take off their headphones.

Like, full on over-the-ear headphones.

At their desk, passing the hallways, at the water cooler.

Headphones on at all times.

Remarkable.

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Yearning to be free from it all.

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@stoolpresidente For the love of God just for once ask yourself what is money.

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It’s *proponents of sound money vs proponents of easy money* from here on out.

[Naval @naval]

It’s nationalists vs communists from here on out.

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@skyler_fs @ck_SNARKs That is precisely what it means for me and my family. Copped. 🔥

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[Firas Modad @firasmodad]

These politicians and their voters are not people you can reason with.

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It will get worse before it gets better.

[ck @ck_SNARKs]

Socialism and communism is festering among democrats.

Unfortunately pain and suffering is needed to flush the disease of socialism out.

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@dotkrueger @craigraw @AppStore The exact ask is for Apple to reverse their decision to terminate his account.

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@Apple get it together. Fix this or users will suffer.

[Sparrow Wallet 🐦 @SparrowWallet]

Unless @Apple's decision to terminate @craigraw's Apple Developer account is reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow will fail, and development on macOS will end. If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport