New York City mayor Bill De
Blasio, today on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, is uncritical of NY governor Andrew Cuomo's very limited free tuition proposal. But
he's supporting the standing off girl statue, and recognizing that the
charging bull represents unrestrained Wall Street.
Cuomo's "free" tuition policy is so limiting that even moderate columnist David Brooks recognizes in today's New York Times that it is regressive.
We need him to do
substantive things for the underprivileged, not just good government
class neutral policies like this overblown statue struggle.
Example
of the latter: De Blasio proudly announced that the NYPD is cracking
down on TLC licensed taxicab drivers (or any drivers) are not allowed to have cellphones
mounted on car windshields. Yes, we need safe driving, safe streets, but this is something a politician of any ideology could support.
De Blasio needs to address pressing economic concerns of economically hard-pressed New Yorkers, not devoting himself to attention-grabbing symbolic issues.
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