{"id":6103,"date":"2014-01-13T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:51:22","slug":"what-will-liberalism-do-to-new-york-city-detroit-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6103","title":{"rendered":"What Will Liberalism Do To New York City? Detroit, Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill de Blasio was recently elected as the mayor of New York City. De Blasio is a liberal Democrat, as opposed to the liberal Republican Michael Bloomberg, who just left the post. The NY Times wrote a rather hopeful piece on de Blasio<\/a> just before the end of the year, which included this paragraph.<\/p>\n

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His administration could be a redemptive moment for a national left whose policies were often blamed for the crumbling of urban centers in the 1960s and 1970s, yet has now started to reassert itself in smaller jurisdictions with bold new approaches on issues like income equality and poverty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

1960s and 70s? How about the 2010? Detroit anyone? Anyone? Bueller? That city had half a century of Democratic rule, and look where it is now! But the Times conveniently forgets this, preferring to suggest that Democrats only screwed up 50 years ago, and really haven\u2019t had a chance since then. These \u201cbold new approaches\u201d are simply novel ways of destroying the economy, which hurt the poor the most. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill de Blasio was recently elected as the mayor of New York City. De Blasio is a liberal Democrat, as opposed to the liberal Republican Michael Bloomberg, who just left the post. The NY Times wrote a rather hopeful piece on de Blasio just before the end of the year, which included this paragraph. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t