To the editor,
When did we lose our moral compass?
Almost eight decades ago we were one nation working together to defeat Germany and Japan. Today, we are a cesspool of special interests working to steal the piece of the pie that honest working Americans have built. When the perceived needs of special interests take precedence to America’s needs, then we have lost.
New York City is governed by special interests as long as we allow Bill DeBlasio to bribe them. The checks and balances system created by our Founding Fathers is useless, since the City Council that is supposed to check DeBlasio’s abuse of power, is also corrupt and its anti-America, pro-FALN speaker allows the mayor to do anything he pleases — and why not? He approved council members’ unearned 32 percent salary increase, didn’t he?
Take DeBlasio’s manufactured statistics on crime and school success with a grain of salt. The administration has tethered the NYPD, therefore, much of the street crime is not addressed and public school crime is “handled internally” with no public records. Tethering cops and reclassifying crime will provide DeBlasio’s desired statistics. Along those lines, dumbing-down curriculums and outright passing failing kids will provide the illusion of academic success.
You may have heard that in addition to its current headquarters in Seattle, Amazon is looking for a headquarters in the East and New York City would be the ideal choice, creating thousands of permanent jobs — but Amazon will likely forgo our degraded city. Employees need efficient and safe transportation with functioning and safe public schools, and New York City lacks both. Amazon is aware of the real crime conditions and quality of life in the streets and in the schools. Additionally, many of our high school graduates are not job-ready and we produce fewer college graduates with earned degrees than other viable cities.
DeBlasio was unqualified to govern New York City from Day One. It is for that reason that he resorted to corruption in order to get elected in 2013 and again in the 2017 campaign — and it is for that reason that he was under federal investigation. But when President Trump fired all Departmenbt of Justice attorneys in order to stop White House leaks, Preet Bahrara, the Department of Justice attorney who would have brought DeBlasio to justice, was also fired in the sweep. Soon after, DeBlasio stuck the taxpayers with his $2 million personal defense bill.
Moreover, DeBlasio will not reveal his plans for controversial issues such as the homeless problem, tearing down America’s statues and closing Rikers Island with the intent of distributing convicts to smaller jails in our neighborhoods.
DeBlasio’s long laundry list of corruption and treachery has been outlined in local news outlets almost daily with the latest headlines “Felon Claims He Owned the Mayor” and “Crooked DeBlasio Donor Testifies to Cozy Relationship With Mayor.” The mayor is Bill DeBlasio and the felon is Jona Rechnitz, who testified in a union corruption trial. Rechnitz’s testimony prompted Nicole Malliotakis to comment, “There’s literally a ‘For Sale’ sign at the gates and we need to change this culture.” We certainly do. Get rid of the crook — vote for Nicole.
If we have no particular problem with a corrupt mayor and with the degraded New York City he has created — and if we cannot envision an administration with a carte blanche approach to the abuse of power in a second DeBlasio term, then we are the problem. When Walt Kelly wrote Pogo’s line “We have met the enemy and he is us,” he might have had us in mind.
On November 7 we shall see whether or not we have regained our moral compass.Elio Valenti
Brooklyn
Pol gets kudos…
To the editor,
Several years ago my elderly mother received a phone call from a telemarketer who wanted to sell her life insurance. When she took the call, unaware of the true intentions of the man on the other end of the phone, she divulged private information, including her Social Security number and credit card information. A couple of months go by and she starts getting bills for thousands of dollars of charges she never made. My mother is in her 90s and lives on a fixed income from Social Security; she had no way of paying those bills and didn’t know what to do.
When I found out about the situation I reached out to several people for help, but the only person that came through was Councilman [Chaim] Deutsch. When I told him about the situation he immediately responded with the reassurance my mother and I needed. He reached out to the proper channels and an investigation commenced into the telemarketer and company responsible for the crime committed against my mother. With time the charges were removed and everything was properly addressed. Later that year Councilman Deutsch sponsored a bill that had the city publish and mail out information warning seniors about scammers and illegal telemarketers. Thanks to his efforts my mother’s title and credit is once again in good standing, and many other seniors who are at risk of the same thing my mother went through are now better informed.
Councilman Deutsch is up for reelection, as a man who never shies away from an issue or concern the community has, and as a man who is incredibly responsive and effective. I truly believe we owe it to him, and the community, to go out this Tuesday Nov. 7 and vote him back in for another four years!
Meyer from Sleepyhead Bay
…and more kudos
To the editor,
I wish to thank Councilman Chaim Deutsch for the help and support he has given to Trump Village in obtaining a new bus shelter for us. Due to construction in the area, the bus shelter we had was demolished. The mayor promised us a new one, but it didn’t seem to be coming anytime soon. At the town hall meeting in Sheepshead Bay in September, I asked the Mayor about the bus shelter, and he said we would get one. Shortly after, we did. I know that it was due to the diligence of Councilman Deutsch pressuring the Mayor to keep his promise.
It’s nice to know that we have elected officials that will work for us. It’s people like the Councilman that we should be voting for. I know he will be getting my vote on Nov. 7.
Elaine Berger
Trump Village
Still waiting
To the editor,
Mayor DeBlasio, at meeting of angry Hurricane Sandy survivors, unveiled a new $100 million plan to help the victims. Five years after the fact. He claims that his predecessor, Mayor Bloomberg, was slow in reacting to the disaster in the waning months of his term, five years ago.
Hmmmm, if I am looking at the calendar correctly, Mayor Sleepy was at the helm of the city for four of those five years. Where has he been? Oh, sorry, am I speaking too loudly? I wouldn’t want to wake him up to reality!
Robert W. Lobenstein
Marine Park
Schools woes linger
To the editor,
As if that will improve the situation, the chancellor has removed the principal from the school where a student was murdered in the classroom. The Department of Education will probably put in some flunky from the Leadership Academy to fill the position.
When will the chancellor and mayor learn that it takes two to tango? Not only do teachers make a school, it’s the student body as well. Stop changing the name of schools to fancy slogans to make it appear that the school has some value. As long as you have the same disruptive group of children attending them, the results shall remain abysmal.
What is being done in the school where this incident happened as well as other troubled ones in getting rid of chronically disruptive students? Nothing, as usual. Instead, we hear quick fixes, alternate assessments, cooperative learning and other nonsense such as the child is not being engaged or motivated.
The chancellor and her subordinates should be in these schools to give demonstration lessons. Fat chance that will ever happen. They’re all pinching themselves that they’re out of the classrooms, far removed from the front lines of teaching.
To make matters worse, the mother of the killer keeps insisting that her son is no bully and is a good boy. Sorry lady. Good children don’t throw pencils at other students during class. The mother is giving an Oscar-calibrated performance to beef up her “case” in suing the city. She will get some smart lawyer who will think up something. Knowing our mayor, he will settle at the taxpayer expense.Ed Greenspan
Sheepshead Bay
