Eric Adams - Mayor of New York City, Part 4

Alright. So we’re all in agreement here—he went after the preschool teachers because he figured they’d be the easiest targets. But man, did he blow it.

Christian Foster38 said:Alright. So we’re all in agreement here—he went after the preschool teachers because he figured they’d be the easiest targets. But man, did he blow it.

It isn't about finding an easy target; it's about what makes sense logically.

A handful of people are sitting on funds that could actually be redirected toward building new preschools and fixing the childcare shortage.
And you wouldn't even need some massive, complicated contract overhaul—just a simple change to one specific policy.
But hey, that would only work if we lived in a country where the courts actually functioned properly, rather than just rubber-stamping whatever the administration wants instead of following the law.

Robin Jones2 said:A web of corruption and cronyism has completely seized control of America.

There isn't a damn chance the Republican Party didn't have their hands all over this court ruling.

Eric Adams comes from a world of hard labor and can't wrap his head around this lazy, entitlement-driven mindset where people just hang out on the street corners while taxpayers foot the bill.
I bet he’s just as shocked as any honest blue-collar worker would be: how do you get paid for doing absolutely nothing?

A colleague of mine has a husband who’s basically living the dream—he’s got that parent-educator status, the grandkids are being watched by their grandmothers, and he spends his days doing odd jobs fixing up cars.

Is it time to file a report?

Look, before we go around branding every single judge in the country a criminal, maybe it’d be a good idea if people actually sat down and read the court ruling itself—instead of just blindly trusting some hit piece written by a journalist who probably barely finished middle school because their editor told them to.

On another note, if you want my two cents, I think Eric Adams is completely out of touch with reality. He honestly doesn't seem to have any clue why people even bothered voting for him in the first place.
The whole point was to crack down on corruption within city hall, finally fix the trash situation, and stop all that nepotism-driven urban planning nonsense.
But instead, he’s wasting everyone's time obsessing over stripping rights from stay-at-home moms, Pride parades, gender ideology, and all that other absolute bullshit.

It’s a joke. Unlike most social benefits, you can qualify for this purely by being unemployed and having x kids. A slap in the face to everyone actually working, and $1667 is just excessive; it should have been slashed at $333.
Cancer patients get a maximum of $200, and even then, only if they meet certain low-income requirements.🤦

granitemason95 said:A colleague of mine has a husband who’s basically living the dream—he’s got that parent-educator status, the grandkids are being watched by their grandmothers, and he spends his days doing odd jobs fixing up cars.

Is it time to file a report?

I guess cases like that—plus situations where the other parent makes plenty of money or families are generally well-off—should probably be excluded from the program entirely without any compensation. I can totally see why the court made this ruling for people relying on those benefits to survive, but maybe we should just handle them one step at a time? I think they should eventually be removed too, but maybe there's an order to how we do things.

Christian Foster38 said:Look, before we go around branding every single judge in the country a criminal, maybe it’d be a good idea if people actually sat down and read the court ruling itself—instead of just blindly trusting some hit piece written by a journalist who probably barely finished middle school because their editor told them to.

On another note, if you want my two cents, I think Eric Adams is completely out of touch with reality. He honestly doesn't seem to have any clue why people even bothered voting for him in the first place.
The whole point was to crack down on corruption within city hall, finally fix the trash situation, and stop all that nepotism-driven urban planning nonsense.
But instead, he’s wasting everyone's time obsessing over stripping rights from stay-at-home moms, Pride parades, gender ideology, and all that other absolute bullshit.

ermm.. one of the reasons he was elected was to get rid of—or at least change—the way things are run. 😁

And if "fixing corruption" means he has to come up with wild, creative ways to bail out his buddies or make people wait over a year for waste management permits, then yeah, nothing's going to change. The system is literally designed to prevent change.

At that point, it's like I said before: just lock the doors and turn out the lights. We're done for.
On one hand, the system is rigged to keep things exactly as they are, making any real progress nearly impossible. On the other, people expect instant results, so when things don't move fast enough, they get frustrated and just give up.

Let's move this whole RO debate over to the right thread:

New York City scrapping the parental caregiver allowance

brightpuma said:ermm.. one of the reasons he was elected was to get rid of—or at least change—the way things are run. 😁

And if "fixing corruption" means he has to come up with wild, creative ways to bail out his buddies or make people wait over a year for waste management permits, then yeah, nothing's going to change. The system is literally designed to prevent change.

At that point, it's like I said before: just lock the doors and turn out the lights. We're done for.
On one hand, the system is rigged to keep things exactly as they are, making any real progress nearly impossible. On the other, people expect instant results, so when things don't move fast enough, they get frustrated and just give up.

But Eric Adams is actively pushing for those exact kinds of policies. He’s acting like a politician who wants to manage every single tiny detail of his constituents' lives—health, childcare, holidays, festivals, minority rights, preschools, parks, park benches, air quality, recycling, the 15-minute city concept, cheap cable cars, and so much more.

In reality, Eric Adams just repackaged Bernie Sanders' old playbook, just with a "cleaner," greener coat of paint.
What kind of outcome can we honestly expect from that?

Rachel Barrett8 said:But Eric Adams is actively pushing for those exact kinds of policies. He’s acting like a politician who wants to manage every single tiny detail of his constituents' lives—health, childcare, holidays, festivals, minority rights, preschools, parks, park benches, air quality, recycling, the 15-minute city concept, cheap cable cars, and so much more.

In reality, Eric Adams just repackaged Bernie Sanders' old playbook, just with a "cleaner," greener coat of paint.
What kind of outcome can we honestly expect from that?

Look... I was hoping, and I still hope, that things could be better.

Take the municipal recycling shredders, for example. He claimed the City had the capacity to handle this internally without outsourcing it. So, he went out and bought the machinery to make it happen.
But the machines are just sitting there. They haven't even started because they're stuck waiting on permits—we're talking over a year now.
So what am I supposed to say? That he was wrong? That he should have gone a different way?

And then people turn around and bash him for it. They miss the real issue: a broken system where you're stalled for a year because of a single piece of paperwork that probably should've been cleared in a month.
We could argue, "Oh, he should have prepared for that." But honestly, how do you prepare for that? Is every decision he makes going to be delayed by a year or two? It’s not that we won't see results; it's that the results will be held hostage by endless red tape.

What can anyone actually accomplish in a four-year term when the parameters are set like this?

Christian Foster38 said:Look, you can't just snap your fingers and have a fully staffed preschool ready by tomorrow morning—not like how he tried to pull a stunt by lifting that restriction.
Besides, let him find the money elsewhere. Or better yet, let him actually grow the economy. That’s literally why we voted him in.

Finally, someone comes up with an idea that actually shows a spark of intelligence or creativity!
How on earth did it not occur to him sooner? 🥳

brightpuma said:Look... I was hoping, and I still hope, that things could be better.

Take the municipal recycling shredders, for example. He claimed the City had the capacity to handle this internally without outsourcing it. So, he went out and bought the machinery to make it happen.
But the machines are just sitting there. They haven't even started because they're stuck waiting on permits—we're talking over a year now.
So what am I supposed to say? That he was wrong? That he should have gone a different way?

And then people turn around and bash him for it. They miss the real issue: a broken system where you're stalled for a year because of a single piece of paperwork that probably should've been cleared in a month.
We could argue, "Oh, he should have prepared for that." But honestly, how do you prepare for that? Is every decision he makes going to be delayed by a year or two? It’s not that we won't see results; it's that the results will be held hostage by endless red tape.

What can anyone actually accomplish in a four-year term when the parameters are set like this?

Maybe Eric Adams could be better, but only if he were running a city like Austin or Zurich.
It’s easy to act on those big visions when you're dealing with a wealthy society and highly organized urban centers.

Take the whole waste management thing—the shredders or the bags.
You go out, buy all these shredders, start separating the waste, and then what? You just dump the whole mess onto a landfill that you previously claimed needed to be shut down.

It’s pure chaos.

brightpuma said:Man, this is honestly disgusting.

Sure, who cares if one cow dies, as long as two of the neighbor's cows die too, right? 👍

I asked you before: what actually are these offsetting measures? What would they even look like? Why would current users want to accept them? How long would the whole thing even take?

Because if the process of scaling back the policy involves offsets that just delay the cost over ten years, you haven't really achieved anything.
Especially if a new administration comes in and just reverses everything again.

God, it feels like the country won't dig itself out of this mess for 30 years because of this exact attitude. Just let everything burn to the ground, as long as "our guys" are the ones in charge. 🙄

Your optimism is refreshing, I guess, though it feels to me like we're hitting full stride on the fast track to the bottom.

Rachel Barrett8 said:Maybe Eric Adams could be better, but only if he were running a city like Austin or Zurich.
It’s easy to act on those big visions when you're dealing with a wealthy society and highly organized urban centers.

Take the whole waste management thing—the shredders or the bags.
You go out, buy all these shredders, start separating the waste, and then what? You just dump the whole mess onto a landfill that you previously claimed needed to be shut down.

It’s pure chaos.

And what else is he supposed to do with it? What's the actual alternative to that landfill RIGHT NOW?

Nothing’s been done for years. It’s not like you can just pull a sorting facility or an incinerator out of your pocket and flip a switch.
And we’re back to the same old problem—even if they started today, getting permits would take forever.

granitemason95 said:A colleague of mine has a husband who’s basically living the dream—he’s got that parent-educator status, the grandkids are being watched by their grandmothers, and he spends his days doing odd jobs fixing up cars.

Is it time to file a report?

Of course it's time. Honestly, though, I'm skeptical anything will actually come of it.
Who knows who else this guy is fixing cars for behind the scenes!

That whole stunt where they were filming the journalists? Honestly, it’s just pathetic. Beyond pathetic, actually.

The passive-aggression coming off that woman is just... wow. It’s palpable.

brightpuma said:And what else is he supposed to do with it? What's the actual alternative to that landfill RIGHT NOW?

Nothing’s been done for years. It’s not like you can just pull a sorting facility or an incinerator out of your pocket and flip a switch.
And we’re back to the same old problem—even if they started today, getting permits would take forever.

Look, nobody is disputing that Eric Adams inherited a mess.

But these problems have been staring us in the face for years. If you know anything about New York City, you realize he’s signed up for a job like Sisyphus, not a cozy gig at a coffee shop in Chicago.

In my opinion, the preparation was totally lacking.

That moment when some legacy political hack who only got their job through cronyism calls for your resignation 😢

Rachel Barrett8 said:Look, nobody is disputing that Eric Adams inherited a mess.

But these problems have been staring us in the face for years. If you know anything about New York City, you realize he’s signed up for a job like Sisyphus, not a cozy gig at a coffee shop in Chicago.

In my opinion, the preparation was totally lacking.

That’s all fair... but I keep asking, what exactly could he have done differently? Like, NYC has to start mandatory recycling because that’s the commitment made.

It’s not like he went looking for this trouble; he just had to deal with it. There isn't even the infrastructure in place yet—that's the work that needs to start. And he couldn't exactly file permits before he was actually Mayor.

He could have scoped out the general requirements since he had partial access to the City's files, but honestly, a lot of things were just sitting there waiting for him to take office. He couldn't really prepare much before then.