Good Enough for Government Work
20th August 2018
Kevin Williamson peers behind the curtain.
… if you would like to know why some of us still recoil in horror at the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,” consider this very interesting report from Winnie Hu of the New York Times. The short version: Residents of Harlem complained about overflowing trash cans, and the powers that be in New York City decided that the problem was the unauthorized dumping of commercial garbage into said public trash cans. So the city thought hard on that problem and took away the trash cans entirely. It took away hundreds in Harlem and more than 1,000 in the city at large.
Harlem residents are, as you might expect, not happy about that.
But they’re mostly Africans, who can be depended to vote for Democrats no matter what, so their happiness is of no interest to the Democrats who control the city government.
The problem with voting regularly for people who promise you free stuff is that you never get it.