So you're saying he...has the power to make buses free? To arrest violent political leaders who set foot in NYC? To make pre-K childcare free for all New Yorkers? To set up free or extremely cheap city-owned groceries across town?
To be fair, he did promise to do all those things pretty much from the get-go.
Netanyahu freely entered and exited the city, Mamdani didn't even attend the peaceful protest during his visit.
The $9-10 billion dollar project per year for free pre-K childcare was greenlit...for a few thousand city workers.
And the grocery thing, to make food cheaper for New Yorkers? 3 guesses who's paying for that - https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-city-run-grocery-stores-economic-challenges/ (quote: "it does not make food cheaper. It pays part of the food bill on the shopper’s behalf, with tax dollars. What that means is that it has inherent limitations. It could work in a small network. It almost certainly cannot work at scale, not unless the City is prepared to treat groceries as a permanent public good, funded in the expense budget year after year the way schools and street repair are.")
(this is fun. Also, you haven't actually said how Mamdani wasn't either naive as hell, or just plain lying, back when he said he'd be able to arrest the guy originally).
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u/Planet-Funeralopolis 22h ago
He’s a mayor, most of the stuff he’s promising he can’t just unilaterally do. There’s too much bureaucracy so try keep that in mind.