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The optometrist says ‘Shut your eyes and tell me what you see’.
The man says ‘I see the Melbourne Cricket Ground empty, I see aircraft parked in rows near Alice Springs
airport, and I see Sydney Harbour bridge with no traffic…’
‘Great’ says the optometrist ‘you have 2020 vision’.
"Before I saw this I thought Trump should give up the push for a recount.
Now I support has efforts !
R--"
Trump Lays it Out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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This is why veracity in government is failing and why Trump should not have caved:
I saw the following on Facebook this morning:"As you wait to get your $600 ... think about this ... long and hard .Now you will know why Republicans are blocking this 2.2 trillion dollar congressional bill! Hard to believe but look it up on the Congressional website for HR 748 from 116th Congress.
American population: 330,483,530
Stimulus bill: $2,000,000,000,000 ($2 Trillion)Dividing the cost by every American is $6,051.74 The government could have given every person over $6,000, but instead will give up to $600.00 to each adult under a certain income. Want know where the missing 96% of your tax dollars went? Here you go. . .1. $300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg.. 1472. $10,000 per person for student loan bailout3. $100,000,000 to NASA, because, who knows why.4. $20,000,000,000 to the USPS, because why not5. $300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts - because of it6. $300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities/ because no one even knew that was a thing7. $15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training / for when the GI Bill isn't enough8. $435,000,000 for mental health support9. $30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund/ because that will keep people employed (all those zeros can be confusing, that’s $30 BILLION)10. $200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program11. $300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting / NPR has to be bought by the Democrats12. $500,000,000 to Museums and Libraries / Who knows how we are going to use it13. $720,000,000 to Social Security Admin / but get this only 200,000,000 is to help people. The rest is for admin costs14. $25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building / I kid you not it's on page 13615. $7,500,000 to the Smithsonian for additional salaries16. $35,000,000 to the JFK Center for Performing Arts17. $25,000,000 for additional salary for House of Representatives18. $3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the VA19. $315,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs20. $95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development21. $300,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance22. $90,000,000 for the Peace Corp pg. 14823. $13,000,000 to Howard University pg. 12124. $9,000,000 Misc. Senate Expenses pg. 13425. $100,000,000 to Essential Air carriers pg. 162. This of note because the Airlines are going to need billions in loans to keep them afloat ($100,000,000 is chump change.)26. $40,000,000,000 goes to the Take Responsibility to Workers and Families Act This sounds like it's direct payments for workers pg. 16427. $1,000,000,000 Airlines Recycle and Save Program pg. 16328. $25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg. 16529. $492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg. 16730. $526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021 pg. 168 (what are the odds that doesn't go unused) Hidden on page 174 the Secretary has 7 days to allocate the funds & notify Congress31. $25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg. 16932. $3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg. 17233. $5,000,000 Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General pg. 17234. $2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg. 17535. $5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg. 17536. $2,500,000 Office of HousingWhat DOES ALL of this have to do with the Virus?(Are you angry yet? This information should be shared with everyone on your contact/mail list.)+++
Blame BLM for Gotham’s sidewalk chaos
What’s the cause of the “mayhem in the streets” that has taken over sidewalks in the outer boroughs?
Sure, everyone points the finger at the incompetence and stupidity of Mayor de Blasio. Gotham’s astonishing decline on his watch is an indisputable matter of record, and as we head into the last year of his reign of error, it’s no surprise that things are getting worse.
But the street-level chaos The Post recently reported is especially symptomatic of what has happened to Gotham in this year of pandemic and riots. The clogging of the sidewalks with vendors, 90 percent of whom don’t have licenses, is crushing the prospects of many of the city’s small businesses. Those prospects were already dim owing to the COVID-19 lockdowns — this, even while big-box stores and Amazon, which are unaffected by the coronavirus rules, make obscene profits.
The illegal-vendor disaster didn’t just happen, willy-nilly.
The refusal to enforce the rules on street vendors is a direct result of the way the Black Lives Matter protests have pushed de Blasio to ditch the last vestiges of broken-windows policing. That vision of law enforcement helped save the Big Apple in the 1990s; even Hizzoner has acknowledged it as a pillar of the city’s livability.
The abandonment of that successful effort — cracking down against misdemeanors so as to prevent even more serious crimes — is a clear indication that the city is sinking under the weight of left-wing ideology. The broken-windows reversal will continue to chase more New Yorkers out of town and likewise push prosperity out of reach for ordinary Gothamites.
Yes, the explosion of vendors is partly a product of pandemic privation. But the fact is, illegal stands that take up most of the space on sidewalks throughout the city both impede traffic to existing stores and steal trade away from businesses that are paying taxes and rent and remain subject to the city’s arcane rules governing brick-and-mortar stores.
Everyone can sympathize with poor and working-class New Yorkers who are struggling to get by. As the educated classes work remotely from home while complaining about how they miss going on vacation, those not so fortunate see hawking goods on the streets as their last resort amid a lockdown recession. But letting the vendor situation get out of hand is a knife in the heart to the small businesses that are the pathway to prosperity for so many immigrants and others seeking their share of the American dream.
This has happened as a direct result of the pressure put on de Blasio by his radical allies, to prevent the police from doing their jobs.
In June and July, a violent rabble took over the streets to, er, “peacefully” protest police brutality. In response, the City Council disgracefully agreed to slash $1 billion from the NYPD budget. Our leaders also switched enforcement of code violations from the cops to the Department of Consumer Affairs. The result has been a predictable collapse of the rule of law in the streets.
Leftists celebrated and claimed it was belated justice for the 2014 death of illegal-cigarette vendor Eric Garner while in police custody. But the decision is killing what’s left of the city’s small businesses.
It’s also creating an increasingly dangerous situation on the sidewalks, making them hard to navigate, as well as allowing disreputable vendors to sell unsafe food, like the repugnant, worm-filled crabs The Post reported on.
Too many illegal street vendors may not sound like a crisis in a city already facing economic collapse and the social pathologies that Hizzoner’s leftist allies have imposed on it. But it’s far more important than you might think. When both criminals and ordinary citizens understand that reasonable regulations that govern daily life won’t be enforced, that’s a green light for a complete collapse of the rule of law.
If de Blasio doesn’t reverse the ruling on code enforcement for street vendors, it’s one more sign that whoever it is who succeeds him in a little more than a year will inherit a city in a state of moral and economic collapse.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org. Twitter: @JonathanS_Tobin
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