Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Borough Break Down

Episode Date: May 21, 2024

Bill reports on a new report breaking down problems in New York City's boroughs. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And I got some interesting statistics that I think you're going to want to hear about our area where we all live. And I'm going to set it up by saying we are besieged by social problems now in the New York City area, 16 million people. We have a lot of bad people. And you will when you have 16 million. So I always peg it at 10% of people are inherently evil for whatever reason. So if you have 16 million, that means 1.6 million evil people are running around. A lot of people. The other thing is that poverty drives criminality.

So if you are making a lot of money, yeah, you're going to be a white collar criminal like Bernie Madoff and your greed head and you want more, more, more, okay. But street crime and things like that, that's driven by poverty. So in the census that's taken all over the United States, there's financial information. And I'm going to give you some right now. So the median household income in Manhattan is about $100,000. That means half make more, half make less. Poverty rate in Manhattan is 17%.

because above 110th Street, you've got a lot of poor people. And 13% of 17%, that's a lot of poor people. In Brooklyn, the poverty rate is 20%, median income, 77,000. Bronx, listen to this, Bronx, poverty rate 27%. Median income, $47,000. That by far and away is the most troubled borough, the poorest borough, because a lot of new people there, immigrants there, and there's a cycle of poverty there, so the Bronx is, you know, trouble. Queens is the most affluent of the five boroughs, 105,000 median income, 13,000.

percent poverty, Staten Island, 11 percent poverty, 97,000 median income. All right, those are the five boroughs. You go up to Westchester, 8 percent poverty rate, 108,000 median income. Nassau, where I live, $137,000 median income here. That's an affluent county, 6 percent poverty. and the poverty is located in just a few areas, Uniondale, Hempstead, Malvern, those places. Suffolk, 120,000 median income, poverty rate 7%. So you can see that the suburbs have more income and less poverty. Now, that's always the way it is, all right? because people in the cities with the tenements and the public housing and all of that,

the poor of a tendency to go there. If you're poor in Nassau County where the homes cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, you're hosed. Yeah, there's some public housing, but how much? So when you look at it and the socialist, communist, cadres, the progressives, they say we can wipe out poverty, by being communists, taking from the affluent and giving to the poor, and then everybody balances out. That never works. Has it worked anywhere in the world, ever.

It just brings everybody down. And the final factor about economics is drugs and alcohol, substance abuse. So a lot of people flee their lives by getting high. And they become addicted, and that's all they do. They're not productive. They can't hold a job. so they're on the dole, they have to commit crimes to get the money to buy the junk and the booze, whatever it may be.

You take the drug equation out, and you could, but it'd be harsh, but you could do it, okay? Poverty rate is going to drop big time, big time, because you spend all your money on drugs. You don't have any money. And then if you've got kids, they're destroyed because you can't live if you're a child in a home where intoxication is present. You can't. You'll be destroyed emotionally. So we as a society, we don't have the right, we don't have the will, W-I-L, to really solve the poverty problem because we won't solve the drug and alcohol problem by isolating those who are addicted, getting them mandatory help, whether they want it or not. That's how you do it.