{"id":1560414,"date":"2022-07-19T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560414"},"modified":"2022-07-19T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:50:08","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-progressives-are-failing-americas-cities-and-urban-voters-are-finally-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-progressives-are-failing-americas-cities-and-urban-voters-are-finally-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Progressives Are Failing America\u2019s Cities, and Urban Voters Are Finally Waking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-progressives-are-failing-americas-cities-and-urban-voters-are-finally-waking-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A new study confirms what exasperated New Yorkers already knew: Their town is one of the worst-run cities in America, behind only Washington, DC and San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-run-cities\/22869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WalletHub\u00a0compared<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cthe quality of services residents receive\u201d in six categories (financial stability, education, health, safety, economy and infrastructure and pollution) to the total budget of 150 of the largest US cities to rank the best (and worst) run. Gotham secured\u00a0the third-worst spot by being 35th in quality of services and 148th in total budget per-capita \u2014 meaning New Yorkers are getting barely a pop for each buck city government spends.<\/p>\n<p>This can come as no surprise to Mayor Eric Adams, who this month said he\u2019s \u201cshocked\u201d by \u201chow bad\u201d the city\u2019s \u201cdeployment of resources\u201d has been.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t Adams\u2019 fault, as he\u2019s holding the bag after eight disastrous\u00a0de Blasio years (including such lowlights as the $1 billion-plus burned on the mental-health initiative\u00a0ThriveNYC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/25\/mccrays-thrivenyc-had-little-effect-on-mental-health-in-the-city\/\">with near-zero result<\/a>), and after <em>decades<\/em> of a municipal culture that lavishes resources on the maximally unionized city workforce and politically connected nonprofits with no regard to results.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22180061191834-1-e1658096724133.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Eric Adams said he was shocked about the city\u2019s mismanagement of funds. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Indeed, the common denominator among the poorest-managed metropolises is obvious: They\u2019re controlled by Democrats who endlessly expand what city government pretends to do, at the expense of average\u00a0citizens. Not coincidentally, the \u201cbottom three\u201d are also all seeing crime soar \u2014 though San Francisco voters at least just fired soft-on-crime District Attorney Chesa Boudin, while New Yorkers hired Adams because he vowed to restore public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The disastrous results of progressive policies also explain why deep-blue states like California and New York have seen a mass exodus of people,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/why-ny-and-california-are-losing-people-power-to-texas-and-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">while Republican-led states like Texas and Florida boom.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe a larger urban voter rebellion against dysfunctional government will follow the revolt on crime: All the polls indicate that America\u2019s working class of all races is fed up with Democratic leadership that just doesn\u2019t care about average folks\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study confirms what exasperated New Yorkers already knew: Their town is one of the worst-run cities in America, behind only Washington, DC and San Francisco.\u00a0 WalletHub\u00a0compared\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}