WEBVTT - Joe Borelli - The Buck Sexton Show 0:00:11.697 --> 0:00:14.977 You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 0:00:14.977 --> 0:00:17.977 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 0:00:18.017 --> 0:00:19.737 wherever you get your podcasts. 0:00:20.257 --> 0:00:24.377 Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. The one 0:00:24.417 --> 0:00:27.137 and only Joe Borelli is with us. He is the 0:00:27.297 --> 0:00:30.137 Republican leader of the New York City Council. He is 0:00:30.177 --> 0:00:33.817 the Sage of Staten Island. A man who knows many 0:00:33.817 --> 0:00:36.777 things about many things. Mister Barelli, always an honor of 0:00:36.897 --> 0:00:38.257 privilege and a pleasure. 0:00:39.297 --> 0:00:42.017 How you doing, I'm doing good. It is great to 0:00:42.057 --> 0:00:44.377 see you. Great. You look healthy, Buck, As they. 0:00:44.377 --> 0:00:47.457 Say, yeah, you know, I'm trying. I'm a Florida man now, 0:00:47.737 --> 0:00:51.537 and I will say the weather is nice. It makes 0:00:51.577 --> 0:00:54.057 you soft, although you have to be really fit here, 0:00:54.057 --> 0:00:57.217 so it makes you soft, like to temperature wise. But 0:00:57.417 --> 0:00:59.977 then again, you know, I probably should like stop eating 0:01:00.017 --> 0:01:01.697 carbs entirely if I want to fit in with the 0:01:01.697 --> 0:01:05.137 Miami set here. But tell me this, I actually want 0:01:05.137 --> 0:01:09.057 to dive into how are things going in good old 0:01:09.177 --> 0:01:12.177 NYC these days? Like what what's the latest with the 0:01:12.977 --> 0:01:16.337 mayor Adams? How would you grade him at this point? 0:01:16.377 --> 0:01:17.177 How's it all going? 0:01:18.217 --> 0:01:21.457 Well? I'd give him a pretty low grade. But the 0:01:21.497 --> 0:01:25.057 irony is that if he were to lose in two 0:01:25.177 --> 0:01:27.977 years from today to twenty twenty five is the next 0:01:28.017 --> 0:01:30.817 mayoral election. If he were to lose, it would only 0:01:30.897 --> 0:01:34.497 be to someone attacking him from the left, and that 0:01:34.537 --> 0:01:36.897 would be even worse than the current situation we have now. 0:01:37.857 --> 0:01:41.977 How is that even possible? Like, what does it take 0:01:42.017 --> 0:01:45.057 for people in New York City to figure out that 0:01:45.417 --> 0:01:50.057 having homeless people defecating on the streets and stabbing people 0:01:50.217 --> 0:01:54.697 with you know, whatever they have at hand, and rising 0:01:54.817 --> 0:01:57.857 crime and all this stuff, and the subways being unsafe 0:01:57.857 --> 0:02:00.737 and people getting pushed in front of trains, what does 0:02:00.777 --> 0:02:04.177 it take for the Libs to be less crazy? In 0:02:04.737 --> 0:02:07.057 my hometown and your hometown? How does this happen. 0:02:08.057 --> 0:02:10.777 They don't get less crazy, if any thing, They just 0:02:10.857 --> 0:02:14.417 get more entrenched in their bizarre world. And you see 0:02:14.417 --> 0:02:17.297 that mostly in Manhattan. You see this less frequently in 0:02:17.337 --> 0:02:20.497 the outer boroughs, where regular assault of the earth New 0:02:20.577 --> 0:02:23.617 Yorkers live. That I'm talking about Black New Yorkers, Hispanic 0:02:23.657 --> 0:02:27.257 New Yorkers, Jewish people, Russian people. They're all starting to shift. 0:02:27.697 --> 0:02:30.057 But the epicenter of the problem is Manhattan. And I'll 0:02:30.057 --> 0:02:32.697 give you a great example. I mean, Alvin Bragg is 0:02:32.737 --> 0:02:37.617 the epitome of moronic district attorney Soros Fund the district attorneys, 0:02:37.977 --> 0:02:41.017 and he is being cheered on right now or indicting 0:02:41.017 --> 0:02:45.497 a police officer yesterday. So this cop was basically involved 0:02:45.497 --> 0:02:48.537 in a situation in a Manhattan Apple store in twenty 0:02:48.617 --> 0:02:53.977 twenty one. Alvin Bragg investigated this for two years, two years, 0:02:54.017 --> 0:02:56.737 and just brought an indictment against the cop for punching 0:02:56.817 --> 0:03:00.497 someone as he was trying to escort this person outside 0:03:00.497 --> 0:03:03.017 of the apple store who was harassing people in the 0:03:03.057 --> 0:03:05.977 store and threatening to kill everyone. That's the one we 0:03:06.017 --> 0:03:08.937 live in. So even though we see you know, Deoderant 0:03:09.097 --> 0:03:14.057 locked up in in cages in Dwayne Reid, the elected 0:03:14.137 --> 0:03:16.857 leaders who are actually in charge of prosecuting these people 0:03:16.937 --> 0:03:19.057 are completely on this side of the criminals. 0:03:19.737 --> 0:03:23.937 What is what justificates an excessive force from the police officer. 0:03:23.977 --> 0:03:25.617 That's why he's bringing the indictment. 0:03:25.937 --> 0:03:29.417 A third degree misdemeanor, the lowest charge possible you can 0:03:29.457 --> 0:03:32.857 bring to basically get the cop fired, which is just 0:03:32.897 --> 0:03:36.497 again two years of an investigation, not of the person 0:03:36.537 --> 0:03:39.537 who has been a serial burglar and arrested numerous times 0:03:39.537 --> 0:03:41.377 for a host of crimes. And by the way, the 0:03:41.417 --> 0:03:43.737 Apple security guard just had a great story in the 0:03:43.737 --> 0:03:46.577 Post today basically saying, I saw the whole thing. The 0:03:46.657 --> 0:03:48.897 DA's office didn't even ask me, and I'm the damned 0:03:48.897 --> 0:03:52.057 security guard and the cop did nothing wrong. And this 0:03:52.137 --> 0:03:56.457 is sort of, you know, the example du jour of 0:03:56.497 --> 0:03:59.737 the backwardsness of the majority of New York City. 0:03:59.857 --> 0:04:03.057 Why is this? Why is Alvin Bragg? Why is DA 0:04:03.337 --> 0:04:07.337 Alvin Bragg pro criminal? Because that's really what it seems like. 0:04:07.377 --> 0:04:10.537 He thinks his job is to use the hower he 0:04:10.617 --> 0:04:15.417 has to the greatest possible benefit of the criminal class 0:04:15.457 --> 0:04:16.377 in New York City. 0:04:16.417 --> 0:04:19.297 Why Yeah, I mean, I think the best thing we 0:04:19.337 --> 0:04:21.337 could say about him, and the most favorable thing I 0:04:21.337 --> 0:04:23.777 can come up with, is that he was honest in 0:04:23.857 --> 0:04:26.497 telling us this is exactly who he is. And that's 0:04:26.537 --> 0:04:28.897 why this is such a problem, because the voters picked this. 0:04:29.137 --> 0:04:32.057 The voters didn't get you know, they didn't get Option B. 0:04:32.177 --> 0:04:35.097 And then suddenly, behind door number two, some woke liberal 0:04:35.137 --> 0:04:37.337 came out. They got a guy who said, I am 0:04:37.377 --> 0:04:39.777 going to make sure the fewest number of people get 0:04:39.817 --> 0:04:41.457 put in jail. I am going to make sure the 0:04:41.497 --> 0:04:45.057 absolute fewest number possible people who are convicted of a 0:04:45.097 --> 0:04:47.297 crime or plead to a crime get put in a 0:04:47.337 --> 0:04:49.937 New York City jail. And he's doing that. His Day 0:04:50.017 --> 0:04:52.737 one memo basically said, here are the crimes we are 0:04:52.777 --> 0:04:56.577 no longer going to prosecute for now. Downstream two years, 0:04:57.097 --> 0:05:00.097 we're suddenly surprised again that you know, if you want 0:05:00.097 --> 0:05:03.097 to get lipstick, it's locked up in a cage somewhere 0:05:03.137 --> 0:05:06.017 in your local supermarket, or that stores are closing and 0:05:07.337 --> 0:05:10.737 bodega owners are getting charged criminally, cops are getting charge criminally, 0:05:10.777 --> 0:05:13.857 but not the regular people were regularly committing these crimes. 0:05:15.057 --> 0:05:17.977 It's just remarkable to me. I would I would have 0:05:17.977 --> 0:05:20.337 thought years ago, given what New York City went through, 0:05:20.457 --> 0:05:23.297 Joe in the nineties, you were there, right, you were 0:05:23.297 --> 0:05:28.777 in Stane out right, Yeah, given the crime rate which 0:05:28.897 --> 0:05:32.017 was truly just heinous for people's day to day lives 0:05:32.337 --> 0:05:36.097 all over the Five boroughs, and then the turnaround during 0:05:36.137 --> 0:05:39.217 the Giuliani era, and just how much better it was 0:05:39.257 --> 0:05:42.737 for everybody once the city got cleaned up. And it's 0:05:42.737 --> 0:05:46.017 not that complicated, it's literally cleaned up like the streets, 0:05:46.057 --> 0:05:50.017 but also enforced the laws. How do we get to 0:05:50.057 --> 0:05:52.937 this place where New York, which was the case study 0:05:52.977 --> 0:05:56.097 of how to fix it all, decided to unfix it. 0:05:56.377 --> 0:05:57.737 You know what is that? 0:05:58.737 --> 0:06:02.497 So this is by no means blaming the pandemic, because 0:06:02.577 --> 0:06:04.737 a lot of big cities in the country did not 0:06:04.777 --> 0:06:07.297 go through a similar thing. But the pandemic as the 0:06:07.417 --> 0:06:11.697 catalyst of acceleration for some of these problems. Absolutely happened 0:06:11.897 --> 0:06:13.857 because you even had and you got to remember, Buck, 0:06:13.897 --> 0:06:16.097 you lived here during this time. You lived during the 0:06:16.137 --> 0:06:19.457 first term of the de Blasio administration. That was a 0:06:19.457 --> 0:06:21.897 pretty good time for New York Mayor Bloomberg, who I 0:06:21.937 --> 0:06:25.617 disagreed with on twenty different things a year at least 0:06:25.697 --> 0:06:29.457 kept the basic services and functionality of the city under 0:06:29.457 --> 0:06:32.177 good management, and he should be commended for that. Then 0:06:32.217 --> 0:06:36.377 you had the pandemic hit, and you had sort of 0:06:36.417 --> 0:06:39.897 the acceleration of seeing all the woke policies that were 0:06:39.897 --> 0:06:43.137 put into place, like bail reform and all sorts of 0:06:43.217 --> 0:06:46.697 criminal justice reform were actually playing out in quick time 0:06:46.817 --> 0:06:48.977 because people got arrested, people felt like they can get 0:06:48.977 --> 0:06:52.737 away with things, and sort of the narrative arc of 0:06:52.857 --> 0:06:57.577 crime went so quickly. Now other cities in even blue 0:06:57.617 --> 0:07:01.977 cities in red states, those came, you know, parabolic, the 0:07:02.017 --> 0:07:04.577 crime went up, and the crime went down. In New York, 0:07:04.697 --> 0:07:07.937 we're just starting to see the crime going down, largely 0:07:07.977 --> 0:07:10.017 because of the NYPD. The NYPD is making more red 0:07:10.217 --> 0:07:12.937 I mean low and behold right, what we always said, 0:07:13.177 --> 0:07:15.817 if we have more aggressive policing in a lower crime 0:07:16.137 --> 0:07:20.057 that is actually happening. The crime level is down, But 0:07:20.217 --> 0:07:23.217 on the prosecution side and on the keeping people behind bars, 0:07:23.257 --> 0:07:25.617 I mean, this is just not happening. Build a Blasio 0:07:25.657 --> 0:07:28.737 in his last year, did a press conference touting the 0:07:28.737 --> 0:07:31.937 fact that we had the lowest jail population on Rikers 0:07:32.017 --> 0:07:35.057 Island since World War Two. If the crime rate was 0:07:35.097 --> 0:07:37.497 the same as it was in nineteen forty five, the 0:07:37.537 --> 0:07:39.417 number of violent felonies were the same as it was 0:07:39.457 --> 0:07:41.577 in nineteen forty five, we would be patting Build A 0:07:41.577 --> 0:07:43.817 Blasio on the back saying, hey, heck of with a job, buddy. 0:07:44.337 --> 0:07:46.537 But it wasn't. The crime was actually going up by then. 0:07:47.017 --> 0:07:49.297 Just the number of people who are criminals that were 0:07:49.337 --> 0:07:52.257 segregated from us through the criminal justice system was at 0:07:52.257 --> 0:07:54.017 its lowest point since nineteen forty five. 0:07:54.417 --> 0:07:56.537 So this is important. I feel like everyone should know 0:07:56.577 --> 0:07:59.457 that in some of these places like New York where 0:07:59.457 --> 0:08:01.817 the Democrats or Democrat left is calling the shots and 0:08:01.817 --> 0:08:05.257 you got the Soros back. Prosecutors ess actially not the police, 0:08:05.777 --> 0:08:09.137 that are really the weak point. Necessarily, it's often not 0:08:09.177 --> 0:08:12.457 the police at all. It's the prosecutorial arm of the 0:08:12.537 --> 0:08:13.217 local government. 0:08:13.257 --> 0:08:13.377 Right. 0:08:13.417 --> 0:08:16.577 It's the decision what to charge and how long to 0:08:16.657 --> 0:08:20.017 hold them in prison for the crimes they've committed. I 0:08:20.017 --> 0:08:21.657 want to come back though, and talking about the economic 0:08:21.737 --> 0:08:25.697 side of things, the Mayor Adams said that New York 0:08:25.817 --> 0:08:28.657 is full when it comes to illegal migrants. That's so 0:08:28.697 --> 0:08:31.137 strange because I thought we're a nation of illegal migrants 0:08:31.137 --> 0:08:32.977 now and we're supposed to think that they make everything better. 0:08:32.977 --> 0:08:34.737 We'll talk about this in just a second. 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You're tired, 0:09:36.537 --> 0:09:39.137 you're poor, You're the thing on the poem, the Lazarus 0:09:39.137 --> 0:09:41.737 poem on the Statue of Liberty. That's what they always 0:09:41.737 --> 0:09:43.697 tell us about all the need for open borders. But 0:09:43.737 --> 0:09:46.217 now Adams is saying, all full too many illegals. What's 0:09:46.257 --> 0:09:46.657 going on? 0:09:47.577 --> 0:09:50.257 Yeah, it turns out poems don't pay the bills. So 0:09:50.897 --> 0:09:53.897 what I believe happened? And from my conversations, both with 0:09:53.937 --> 0:09:56.577 people in the Adams administration and just sort of my 0:09:56.577 --> 0:09:59.337 own observation is that he was more than willing to 0:09:59.457 --> 0:10:01.857 sort of carry the Democrats water be the post of 0:10:01.937 --> 0:10:05.737 boy of sanctuary cities. And when the projections were going 0:10:05.817 --> 0:10:08.017 to be that it was going to be five thousand people, 0:10:08.817 --> 0:10:11.937 ten thousand people, you know, So that effect on our 0:10:11.977 --> 0:10:14.617 budget is like a fart in a breezy day. It 0:10:14.657 --> 0:10:16.977 wasn't going to have any impact. But now that we've 0:10:17.017 --> 0:10:19.857 had almost one hundred thousand people come through our system 0:10:20.057 --> 0:10:23.777 and over fifty thousand people in our shelters nightly in 0:10:23.777 --> 0:10:26.417 addition to our regular homeless shelter population. Mind you, this 0:10:26.457 --> 0:10:31.737 is fifty thousand migrant homeless population. Now the dollar amount 0:10:31.777 --> 0:10:35.417 is simply unsustainable. Not only is the dollar amount unsustainable, 0:10:35.657 --> 0:10:38.857 but the Adams Administration can't actually find enough rooms to 0:10:38.857 --> 0:10:42.977 put people. Know, they can't basically put tent cities wherever 0:10:43.017 --> 0:10:45.777 they want. There's no hotels that are any long and 0:10:45.897 --> 0:10:48.897 willing to lease space, and they're coming up on basically 0:10:48.937 --> 0:10:50.777 a hard stop of where they can put people. They're 0:10:50.777 --> 0:10:54.417 actually renting hotels outside of the city limits in counties 0:10:54.577 --> 0:10:57.097 on the island and in the Hudson Valley. But the 0:10:57.177 --> 0:11:00.857 number is insane. The number in our last budget that 0:11:00.937 --> 0:11:03.417 was unaccounted for, meaning it was migrant money that was 0:11:03.457 --> 0:11:06.017 not budgeted prior to the start of the fiscal year, 0:11:06.257 --> 0:11:08.697 was about one point eight billion dollars. So, to give 0:11:08.737 --> 0:11:12.017 the listeners a comparable, one point eight billion dollars is 0:11:12.217 --> 0:11:15.337 more more than we spend on the fd and Y. 0:11:15.657 --> 0:11:18.657 FD and Y has ten thousand firefighters, five thousand EMPs, 0:11:18.697 --> 0:11:23.137 three hundreds firehouses, five thousand ambulances, twenty four hour rotations, 0:11:23.297 --> 0:11:26.177 people watching the city all day long, and yet the 0:11:26.297 --> 0:11:30.377 migrant crisis is actually costing more money than the largest 0:11:30.377 --> 0:11:35.097 fire department and EMS system in the country. It's simply bonkers. 0:11:35.577 --> 0:11:37.217 And now add them to the stuff between a rock 0:11:37.257 --> 0:11:40.217 and a hard place, where they've they've resorted to actually 0:11:40.257 --> 0:11:42.297 putting flyers out. I don't know if you've seen this book. 0:11:42.297 --> 0:11:45.617 They're actually putting flyers out that they're sending to Texas 0:11:45.617 --> 0:11:49.257 and having people hand them out at the basically the 0:11:49.897 --> 0:11:52.217 centers that process people when they come across the border, 0:11:52.577 --> 0:11:55.217 telling them that New York's really expensive and there might 0:11:55.257 --> 0:11:58.057 not be a place for them to live. So that's 0:11:58.097 --> 0:12:01.297 how far We've come from let me be the poster 0:12:01.377 --> 0:12:04.617 boy for sanctuary city policies to now he's attacking the 0:12:04.657 --> 0:12:07.737 Biden administration rightfully, by the way, for not paying for 0:12:07.777 --> 0:12:10.457 this problem that has caused one hundred percent by the 0:12:10.497 --> 0:12:15.257 federal government's failure. We're just on the hook on being 0:12:15.297 --> 0:12:18.217 the world's refugee camp because of our own dopey politicians 0:12:18.257 --> 0:12:20.737 who decided to have not just the sanctuary city law, 0:12:21.057 --> 0:12:24.257 but a right to shelter law ingrained at our state constitution, 0:12:24.617 --> 0:12:27.537 which guarantees any person, which person is now defined as 0:12:27.537 --> 0:12:31.297 a migrant, unlimited resources should they need them. 0:12:31.977 --> 0:12:33.257 It's unbelievable. 0:12:33.297 --> 0:12:35.257 I mean, just give me the right choice by leaving Buck, 0:12:35.257 --> 0:12:36.177 I'm not gonna lie. 0:12:36.937 --> 0:12:39.217 I Well, you know, I see now where do all 0:12:39.257 --> 0:12:41.697 my tax dollars go? Recently I saw not only do 0:12:41.697 --> 0:12:43.977 you got the one point eight billion going for illegals, 0:12:44.697 --> 0:12:48.857 but there's this judgment that Deblasio set up this fund 0:12:48.937 --> 0:12:50.977 right for teachers that failed the test who are black 0:12:50.977 --> 0:12:55.137 and Hispanic, who failed this teacher certification exam. They're getting 0:12:55.137 --> 0:12:57.417 a million dollars, some of them two million dollars, paying 0:12:57.417 --> 0:13:00.817 them for an entire career of work that they never did, 0:13:01.177 --> 0:13:04.057 They went off and did other jobs. But now after 0:13:04.097 --> 0:13:06.097 twenty years they get the full back pay for all 0:13:06.097 --> 0:13:09.177 twenty years and benefits because they failed the test of 0:13:09.257 --> 0:13:13.497 basic reading and teaching skills. Like, that's where my tax 0:13:13.537 --> 0:13:15.057 dollars are going as a New Yorker, or where they 0:13:15.097 --> 0:13:17.777 would be going. Rather, that's where yours are going, Joe, Yeah. 0:13:17.897 --> 0:13:21.177 Or the thirteen million they just settled with on BLM 0:13:21.257 --> 0:13:24.497 protesters after George Floyd. So if you were arrested during 0:13:24.497 --> 0:13:28.777 the protest and perhaps roughed up in the ensuing scuffle, 0:13:29.097 --> 0:13:31.977 or maybe you were held two hours too long, they 0:13:32.017 --> 0:13:34.497 settled about thirteen million dollars with a whole bunch of 0:13:34.497 --> 0:13:38.017 defendants who felt they were wrongly arrested and wrongly detained. 0:13:38.057 --> 0:13:39.537 I mean, this is this is the kind of city 0:13:39.577 --> 0:13:42.377 we live in where where it just it is unsustainable. 0:13:43.017 --> 0:13:45.057 The New Yorker, which I'm sure you don't read it 0:13:45.057 --> 0:13:47.377 because I don't really read it that often, but they 0:13:47.377 --> 0:13:50.297 came out with a really good article yesterday about the 0:13:50.337 --> 0:13:54.057 crisis involving New York real estate, both commercial and residential. 0:13:54.537 --> 0:13:57.457 And we are at the precipice of a fiscal cliff. 0:13:57.737 --> 0:14:00.857 And you know, I've been hyperbolic about this in the past, 0:14:00.857 --> 0:14:03.137 and maybe too much though, but now we really are 0:14:03.297 --> 0:14:08.777 up against a very very very hard situation where banks 0:14:08.817 --> 0:14:13.417 may have to default on lenders. Uh and and UH business. 0:14:13.497 --> 0:14:16.377 I'm rather building owners no longer have the ability to 0:14:16.417 --> 0:14:18.937 go to local banks to get refinancing, and some of 0:14:18.937 --> 0:14:21.417 the largest buildings in New York City. This is this 0:14:21.457 --> 0:14:24.737 is actually a catastrophic event for New York that could 0:14:24.777 --> 0:14:25.217 be happening. 0:14:25.697 --> 0:14:28.457 How far off is that from becoming a reality at 0:14:28.457 --> 0:14:31.577 this point? Like, is this expected to happen in a 0:14:31.617 --> 0:14:34.977 matter of of you know, weeks, months, years? 0:14:36.177 --> 0:14:37.617 I would say within a year or two. I mean, 0:14:37.657 --> 0:14:40.417 you'll start seeing some of the regional banks and lenders 0:14:40.737 --> 0:14:44.297 who finance some of these smaller properties. You'll see it 0:14:44.297 --> 0:14:46.257 affected in their stock market price and some of the 0:14:46.657 --> 0:14:49.177 issues in the market on them. Then you'll see some 0:14:49.217 --> 0:14:52.057 of these and and a Blackstone a company just handed 0:14:52.097 --> 0:14:54.857 back the keys of their building because they couldn't refinance. 0:14:54.897 --> 0:14:57.697 I mean, so you're you're starting to see the cracks 0:14:57.697 --> 0:15:00.217 in the dam. The dam hasn't cracked completely yet, the 0:15:00.257 --> 0:15:03.857 water isn't flowing, but we're at the point now where 0:15:03.897 --> 0:15:07.457 you're starting to see major buildings get defaulted on, or 0:15:07.577 --> 0:15:09.697 just the older the owners handing back the keys to 0:15:10.137 --> 0:15:11.417 the lending institutions. 0:15:11.697 --> 0:15:14.097 I want to come back and ask you, Joe, if 0:15:14.137 --> 0:15:17.057 I made you the King of New York, which arguably 0:15:17.057 --> 0:15:18.777 you are, But if I made you the king of 0:15:18.817 --> 0:15:21.497 New York and you had to fix the place, and 0:15:21.537 --> 0:15:24.897 you could just do whatever you needed to do to 0:15:24.977 --> 0:15:27.537 fix it, to make it the greatest city in America, 0:15:27.617 --> 0:15:29.137 which I think, at least for a period of my 0:15:29.177 --> 0:15:31.097 life I lived in, which I do believe it was 0:15:31.137 --> 0:15:33.377 for a while the greatest city in America. 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I mean 0:17:02.577 --> 0:17:06.457 public safety is paramount to getting people back into their offices. 0:17:06.577 --> 0:17:08.737 By the way, people are not not going to offices 0:17:08.777 --> 0:17:11.377 in Manhattan because they don't want you. It's partially because 0:17:11.377 --> 0:17:13.337 they don't feel safe. So the first thing we have 0:17:13.417 --> 0:17:16.617 to do is repeal cashless bail. We have to repeal 0:17:16.657 --> 0:17:20.297 most of the criminal justice provisions that were voted on 0:17:20.377 --> 0:17:23.977 over the last ten years that said we have to 0:17:23.977 --> 0:17:27.097 make real estate valuable in New York City. Again, we 0:17:27.177 --> 0:17:29.697 have to make sure the industry is solid, and you 0:17:29.817 --> 0:17:32.497 do that by giving, you know, old fashioned tax breaks. 0:17:32.537 --> 0:17:34.657 The governor and the legislature couldn't come up with a 0:17:34.657 --> 0:17:36.857 great agreement this year to extend some of the tax 0:17:36.897 --> 0:17:40.097 abatements that a lot of these developers needed to continue 0:17:40.137 --> 0:17:43.577 building the skyscrapers and apartment buildings that New York Is need. 0:17:43.697 --> 0:17:47.257 So it's an interesting catch twenty two where on the 0:17:47.257 --> 0:17:50.137 finance side we have to spur some growth, we also 0:17:50.177 --> 0:17:52.257 need to lower our business taxes. I mean, right now 0:17:52.297 --> 0:17:55.017 we're losing companies. Forget the people that'll leave it right 0:17:55.537 --> 0:17:58.057 I might leave because the weather's nice, but JP Morgan 0:17:58.177 --> 0:18:01.457 just went to the Dallas Metro because of the tax 0:18:01.497 --> 0:18:04.857 structure and the business climate of Texas, So we'd have 0:18:04.937 --> 0:18:07.337 to reform that as well, if we could do that, 0:18:08.177 --> 0:18:10.057 and I think we do. I really do think New 0:18:10.057 --> 0:18:13.097 New York is poised for the pendulum to start swinging back. 0:18:13.457 --> 0:18:15.017 I just don't know if it's going to happen in 0:18:15.057 --> 0:18:17.417 my say, political lifetime, but I bet you by the 0:18:17.417 --> 0:18:20.097 time I have grandkids, New York will be in full 0:18:20.097 --> 0:18:23.377 swing again. It took you mentioned the nineteen nineties before. Remember, 0:18:23.417 --> 0:18:25.937 crime was really bad in the late seventies, early eighties, 0:18:25.977 --> 0:18:28.697 and it took about, you know, five or six years 0:18:28.697 --> 0:18:31.537 for things to really level off going into ninety nine, 0:18:31.577 --> 0:18:32.977 two thousand, two thousand and one. 0:18:33.937 --> 0:18:37.937 What are the biggest areas of the city budget in 0:18:37.937 --> 0:18:40.057 New York that you're just like, what the heck are 0:18:40.097 --> 0:18:40.537 we doing? 0:18:42.057 --> 0:18:44.057 Yeah? I mean I would have to say the Department 0:18:44.057 --> 0:18:46.657 of Education, I mean our Department of Education. And my 0:18:46.697 --> 0:18:48.977 wife's a teacher, and God blessed the work, and some 0:18:49.057 --> 0:18:52.177 of them do. But we spend more per child than 0:18:52.217 --> 0:18:55.657 any other system by far. And I don't mean like 0:18:55.737 --> 0:18:59.337 we spend ten percent more five percent. We spend about 0:18:59.377 --> 0:19:02.537 triple what say the private school systems here in New 0:19:02.577 --> 0:19:05.697 York spend on average the Catholic schools, for example, educated 0:19:05.737 --> 0:19:07.537 kids for about seven or eight thousand a year. In 0:19:07.577 --> 0:19:10.297 elementary school we're up to twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty 0:19:10.377 --> 0:19:13.497 nine thousand dollars per year, So that is the biggest 0:19:13.537 --> 0:19:15.977 vacuum of city spending. A lot of it has to 0:19:15.977 --> 0:19:17.777 do with the age of some of our school buildings. 0:19:17.817 --> 0:19:20.017 We have, you know, twelve hundred school buildings in New 0:19:20.097 --> 0:19:21.537 York City. A lot of them are are one hundred 0:19:21.617 --> 0:19:23.537 years old. So there is going to be some capital 0:19:23.577 --> 0:19:27.857 needs for keeping the system itself going. But this cost 0:19:27.897 --> 0:19:30.857 per spending is probably astronomical. And then you can look 0:19:30.897 --> 0:19:33.177 at any agency. I mean, the NYPD spends more money 0:19:33.217 --> 0:19:35.777 than North Korea, but would I wouldn't say we should 0:19:35.777 --> 0:19:39.177 cut that. So even though New York is so big, 0:19:39.617 --> 0:19:42.697 we have to approach cuts with a scalpel. And by 0:19:42.737 --> 0:19:45.497 the way, you know, the budget growth of one percent 0:19:45.537 --> 0:19:47.857 two percent a year is falling in a city like 0:19:47.937 --> 0:19:49.817 New York that for the last twenty years was able 0:19:49.857 --> 0:19:51.897 to meet that with regular old growth. We haven't really 0:19:52.017 --> 0:19:55.057 raised taxes. Taxes are high, we haven't raised them. It's 0:19:55.057 --> 0:19:58.057 only recently with this migrant crisis and sort of the 0:19:58.097 --> 0:20:01.497 out of control pension and liability, pension and healthcare spending 0:20:01.537 --> 0:20:04.377 that that we've been put in this fiscal problem. 0:20:04.577 --> 0:20:05.977