~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
New York State’s greasy Governor Andrew Cuomo who allows his staff to delete emails at will, stated that “extreme Conservatives have no place in New York” and who by executive order forcibly removes the homeless off the streets during the winter, not that he cares but because he’s the governor, a Progressive who believes that the homeless have no rights is trying to stick President Trump with the responsibility, blame and tab for New York City’s disastrous Penn Station.
Andrew Cuomo, New York’s tax and spend governor, has a very serious train problem in New York City’s Penn Station, and he is trying to transfer the blame and the expense to the federal government.
In addition to setting a trap for President Trump, it’s a demand for money from the federal taxpayer for a problem he created.
Cuomo has declared the Penn Station repairs a “state of emergency” in an attempt to get Donald Trump to send him funds after he neglected the problem. No one declares a self-induced train station problem a “state of emergency”.
If Trump falls for it, he’s a fool and he’ll regret it.
It’s the old monkey off my back and on to your back trick.
Penn Station is a “dump” in “deplorable” conditions, Cuomo announced. He wants Trump to intervene[…]
All about 2020, I suggest Cuomo pull back the millions, likely billions he’s doling out to illegal aliens for healthcare, rent, education, etc. Oh yes and the funds used to hide illegals from the federal government and their legal fees.
Then there is the matter of $163 million for free in-state college tuition for New Yorkers. Are you kidding me? There is plenty of money for Cuomo to clean up his infrastructure mess. Penn Station is his own doing.
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Fascist Andrew Cuomo has his sights set on the 2020 presidential election and so he is courting the Muslim vote by selling New York State down river.
Spread this around. I couldn’t believe it when I read it so I checked it myself and you can too on this link. The madmen in the New York Senate declared yesterday as Hijab Day.
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim February 1, 2017, as Hijab Day in the State of New York.
This is one of the reasons immigrants don’t adapt to a Western culture. The liberals/leftists don’t want them to, they want us to adapt to them.
No matter what anyone tells you, the hijab is foreign, it’s not American. It’s fine if immigrants want to wear them and call it religious, but dedicating a day to something that represents the diminishment of women is not acceptable to real feminists.
It’s not Islamaphobia to forego promoting the wearing of the hijab. Did anyone demand we wear or honor Saris when East Indians came to the U.S.? This is to promote the lie that Islamophobia is growing under Trump.
What’s wrong with the hijab for American women
The hijab shows modesty according to Arabs in America. They say women choose to wear it to show modesty or their devotion to God and still others wear it to show their Muslim identity. Whether they choose to or not is an open question.
Female hair is considered awra (an intimate part of the body that must be covered by clothing) in much of Islam. There is no such requirement for men.
The Quran mandates hijab (literally “cover”) for both men and women though men have largely abandoned the practice[…]
‘Ads Featuring Nazi Imagery Pulled From New York City Subway,’ the bland headline from the Associated Press announced. The first line of the story was similarly ho-hum and passive:
An ad campaign that featured Nazi imagery has been pulled from the New York City subway system.
The ad campaign is for Amazon’s new show “The Man In The High Castle,” which is based on Philip K. Dick’s alternate history of an early 1960s United States that lost World War II….
The slow-paced but engrossing show features Rufus Sewell as a ruthless SS Obergruppenführer who cracks down on the resistance movement with shocking efficiency and brutality. There is no freedom in the dystopian land that shows how precious freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly truly are […]
While Commie mayor, Bill de Blasio complained that the ads were reprehensible, it is Governor Andrew Cuomo who ordered the ads removed (see image below).
It wouldn’t surprise me if Cuomo was more concerned with the possibility of these ads peeking the interests of passengers and while viewing “The Man in the High Castle,” suddenly recognize the traits of the characters in our bureaucrats and/or awaken to the totalitarian state that our nation is fast becoming.
Can’t have New Yorkers catching on to the fundamental transformation going on around them or waking them out of their slumber.
Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order this weekend ordering that the homeless be removed from the streets of New York State by any means and forced into homeless shelters once outside temperatures hit 32 degrees or below and during inclement weather.
Local police and representatives of social service agencies (relabeled outreach officers) are to take to the streets in search of the homeless, have a fireside chat during which the individual(s) will be ordered to head to a shelter, i.e., off the streets aka out of public view.
Of course, should the individual refuse, he or she would then be forcibly removed to one of the many dangerous and ill reputable homeless shelters in New York State, which has been ordered to maintain extended hours allowing the homeless access.
The ideological rationale for Cuomo’s executive order is to ensure “that homeless individuals are directed to shelter during inclement winter weather which can cause hypothermia, serious injury and death.” Translation: For the safety and greater good of the individual.
Except that, the executive order does not protect the homeless nor is it for their greater good and most certainly not because Cuomo or any other government official has the right to usurp the will of an individual. They do not.
It is no secret that homeless shelters are a hellhole and often life threatening, one of the primary reasons is that so many choose living on the streets, in the subways and back allies over the shelters.
Adding to that, many of the people who run and work in the shelters are corrupt, equally dangerous, see the homeless as someone to take advantage of, and abused because after all, if they don’t like the service (or living conditions), they can always remove themselves from the environment. Yet with those options, correction lack thereof, many have opted to leave the shelters.
Rather than deal with the insanity and threats that send people fleeing from shelters or rolling back legislation and social engineering policies that are contributory to the escalated rents, cost of living, homelessness, etc. Cuomo diminishing the options, further infringes upon the liberties of the homeless by ordaining that the State of New York can “take appropriate steps, including involuntary placement, to protect individuals from harming themselves or others.”
EMERGENCY DECLARATION REGARDING HOMELESSNESS DURING INCLEMENT WINTER WEATHER…I direct all local social service districts, police agencies including the New York State Police, and state agencies to take all necessary steps to identifyindividuals reasonably believed to be homeless and unwilling or unable to find the shelter necessary for safety and health in inclement winter weather, and move such individuals to the appropriate sheltered facilities; FURTHER, I direct all local social service districts to take all necessary steps to extend shelter hours, to allow individuals who are homeless to remain indoors, to instruct homeless service outreach workers to work with other relevant personnel and to work with local police in relation to the involuntarilytransport of at-risk individuals who refuse to go inside and who appear to be at-risk for cold related injuries to appropriate facilities for assessment consistent with the provisions of section 9.41 of the Mental Hygiene Law, and to work in coordination with the State Police and all police agencies to ensure that homeless individuals receive assistance as needed to protect the public health and safety and at all times consistent with the State’s Constitution and existing statutes…
Alleging that case law is on his side, Cuomo phoned in to 1010WINS Saturday insisting that his decision to force the homeless aka “these people” against their will into homeless shelters is for the good of the collective, correction individual [my emphasis], “What we’re saying is these are people who are placing themselves in danger, and if you are placing yourself in danger, we believe as a society you should be given help because you can hurt yourself…”
Designating that the homeless be involuntarily remanded to a homeless shelter implies that the homeless are mentally unstable and thereby incapable of making decisions for themselves but fear not because the Marxist ideologues running the government are here to help.
Well sort of anyway. While Cuomo’s executive order states that “homelessness is an issue that impacts citizens in all regions of the State, from large cities to small towns and rural communities; and WHEREAS, certain parts of the State are facing a crisis of homelessness unprecedented in recent history;” it is another slap in the face directed at NYC’s Communist mayor, Bill de Blasio under whose tenure homelessness in New York City has returned to 1980’s level.
Commie de Blasio who early last summer blamed NYC’s homeless problem on Cuomo while at the same time stating that, “Homelessness is not going up, thank God,” and whose deputy mayor of health and human services resigned shortly thereafter objects to the executive order but not for the reasons that one would expect.
According to Karen Hinlon, de Blasio’s press secretary,
“We support the intent of the Executive Order, but to forcibly remove all homeless individuals in freezing weather, as the Governor has ordered, will require him to pass state law…
This Executive Order adds no legal or financial resources to New York City’s programs to assist the homeless, and merely requires all New York State localities follow many of the same requirements as New York City to shelter families and individuals in need in freezing temperatures…”
[Note: While homelessness and quality of life in New York City was returning to the cesspool it became during the Dinkins era, Commie Bill took a trip to Italy that included a $ 4,519.66 overnight flight to Rome where he sought company with the Pope.
Instead of addressing the City’s problems, de Blasio gallivants from state to state, whining about how New Yorkers hate him.]
Alphonso David, Cuomo’s legal counsel insists that Cuomo’s executive order “’does not mandate involuntary commitment for competent individuals’ and requires cities to conduct ‘an individualized assessment pursuant’ to state mental hygiene law ‘for those who refuse shelter.’”
Translation: If it is 32 degrees out with a wind chill of 15 and an individual still refuses to enter into a homeless shelter, it cannot possibly be that the individual fears for his or her safety, it is that the individual is mentally unstable.
Commie mayor’s treatment of the homeless in NYC is the confiscation and destruction of what little property the homeless sleeping on NYC streets has in their possession including documentation, which is vital to getting anything done in the United States.
Does Andrew Cuomo who has been aggressively fundraising for his 2018 re-election campaign since early 2015 have the right to force homeless adults off the streets against their will?
What about de Blasio, up for re-election in 2017 whose actions appears to be also infringing upon the liberties of while disrespecting the homeless by erasing their existence?
Are both attempting to push for the illusion of “out of sight — out of mind — crisis handled and contained?”
In 2010, New York State raised its cigarette tax, now the highest in the nation from $2.75 to $4.10 per pack of cigarettes.
According to The Daily Caller, the tax increase has raised the price of a pack of cigarettes to $10.60. I beg to differ.
I have not seen a pack of cigarettes for $10.50 in several years but then I am not a smoker and the price per pack may depend upon the cigarettes purchased.
All of that aside, the last time I noticed, one pack of cigarettes cost $12.50.
Moving on….the consequences of NYS’ cigarette tax being the highest in the nation, a 190 percent tax increase on cigarettes since 2006, means that cigarette smokers are (a) traveling across state lines for their smokes; (b) purchasing their smokes through Native American outlets to save $6 per pack; or (c) purchasing their smokes on the black market.
In addition, NYS is suffering a huge loss of revenue. (What did they expect?)
New York state cigarette tax collections have plunged by about $400 million over the past five years, according to figures and estimates from the office of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
And New York has also lost $1.3 billion in uncollected state cigarette taxes each year from alternative sales, according to a separate study…
Compounding the offense of the government to tax smokers to death, “smokers are slapped with an extra $1.50 per pack on top of the state tax. (On top of that, there’s federal excise tax of $1.01, and an 8 percent sales tax of almost 80 cents, using our example.)”
So how will the State handle the loss of revenue?
They will raid grocery stores, newspaper and fruit stands who might be selling out of state or black market cigarettes.
In addition, Native American cigarette outlets will be audited.
All will take place while the nanny states runs fear mongering television ads that no one with the exception of young children watches to dissuade New Yorkers from smoking.
Mind you, the above game plan has been underway for more than a decade and has changed nothing.
