2023-09-26, 05:33 PM
Well, here's a juicy nugget: NYC is all set to drop an extra billion bucks on hotels just to house migrants for another three years.
Here's a thought - why not ship them straight to the doorsteps of those who are singing the open-border tune? Problem solved! It's high time we put our resources where our mouth is, isn't it? Let's see if this sassy strategy shakes things up a bit!
I didn't pay my taxes for this...
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https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/nyc-now-pr...ore-years/
New York City is preparing for the worst — extending its contract with local hotels to help house migrants for up to three more years at a staggering added cost of more than $1 billion.
And the revised contract’s projected new total $1.365 billion price tag — nearly five times what the original deal called for — would just pay the rental fees to more than 100 hotels converted into emergency migrant shelters.
It doesn’t include the cost of city facilities and other rented sites housing homeless asylum seekers pouring into the Big Apple by the thousands every week.
Critics — including even some Democrats — raged that the Adams administration’s contract with the New York City Hotel Assocation, which is set to be extended from this year through August 2026, reeked of a taxpayer giveaway.
“Why are we extending this contract for three years? It sends the message of not wanting to reduce this migrant population,” said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow with The Manhattan Institute.
Gelinas said the city created “one big monopoly” by giving the hotel industry an overarching contract without competing bids that could lower costs.
Democratic Queens Councilman Robert Holden seethed, “The migrant crisis has evolved into a financial boondoggle, with quietly extended contracts fattening the pockets of a few at the taxpayer’s expense.
“It’s time to halt this fiscal recklessness. Let’s send those [migrant] buses to the White House and remember that ‘Right to Shelter’ shouldn’t be misconstrued as a global entitlement,” he said, referring to New York City’s law guaranteeing shelter to the homeless, including asylum seekers.
A spokeswoman with the city Department Department of Social Services/Homeless Services told The Post on Monday, “For over a year now, the city has worked to address this humanitarian crisis with an all of government approach, and with thousands of asylum seekers arriving each week, we are constantly reassessing our needs.
“This proposal for contract extension is designed to provide capacity as needed, but it also provides the flexibility to scale back or terminate if circumstances on the ground change.”
It was unclear Monday if the fat hotel contract is part of the estimated total $12 billion that Mayor Eric Adams has said the migrant crisis could cost the city over three years — absent additional financial aid from Washington and Albany.
Here's a thought - why not ship them straight to the doorsteps of those who are singing the open-border tune? Problem solved! It's high time we put our resources where our mouth is, isn't it? Let's see if this sassy strategy shakes things up a bit!
I didn't pay my taxes for this...
...
https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/nyc-now-pr...ore-years/
New York City is preparing for the worst — extending its contract with local hotels to help house migrants for up to three more years at a staggering added cost of more than $1 billion.
And the revised contract’s projected new total $1.365 billion price tag — nearly five times what the original deal called for — would just pay the rental fees to more than 100 hotels converted into emergency migrant shelters.
It doesn’t include the cost of city facilities and other rented sites housing homeless asylum seekers pouring into the Big Apple by the thousands every week.
Critics — including even some Democrats — raged that the Adams administration’s contract with the New York City Hotel Assocation, which is set to be extended from this year through August 2026, reeked of a taxpayer giveaway.
“Why are we extending this contract for three years? It sends the message of not wanting to reduce this migrant population,” said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow with The Manhattan Institute.
Gelinas said the city created “one big monopoly” by giving the hotel industry an overarching contract without competing bids that could lower costs.
Democratic Queens Councilman Robert Holden seethed, “The migrant crisis has evolved into a financial boondoggle, with quietly extended contracts fattening the pockets of a few at the taxpayer’s expense.
“It’s time to halt this fiscal recklessness. Let’s send those [migrant] buses to the White House and remember that ‘Right to Shelter’ shouldn’t be misconstrued as a global entitlement,” he said, referring to New York City’s law guaranteeing shelter to the homeless, including asylum seekers.
A spokeswoman with the city Department Department of Social Services/Homeless Services told The Post on Monday, “For over a year now, the city has worked to address this humanitarian crisis with an all of government approach, and with thousands of asylum seekers arriving each week, we are constantly reassessing our needs.
“This proposal for contract extension is designed to provide capacity as needed, but it also provides the flexibility to scale back or terminate if circumstances on the ground change.”
It was unclear Monday if the fat hotel contract is part of the estimated total $12 billion that Mayor Eric Adams has said the migrant crisis could cost the city over three years — absent additional financial aid from Washington and Albany.
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Đời vô thường giả tạm hư không
Ngũ uẩn: “Sắc bất dị không”
An nhiên tự tại cho lòng thảnh thơi.
-CT-
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Đời vô thường giả tạm hư không
Ngũ uẩn: “Sắc bất dị không”
An nhiên tự tại cho lòng thảnh thơi.
-CT-
願得一心人,
白頭不相離.