Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Quality of Life

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

Bill analyzes a new survey about the quality of life in New York City. 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 a hold of a report, a survey, from the Citizens Budget Commission, nonpartisan, non-profit, think tank, watchdog group whose mission is to achieve constructive change in New York finances, services, and policies, both city and state. Report survey was prepared by the Citizens Budget Commission Executive Committee. Ooh, the Executive Committee, huh? And it has to do with how New Yorkers rate the quality of life. 6,600 New Yorkers participated in the survey. One caveat before I give you the results.

people who participate in surveys are motivated people the greatest motivator in the world is anger anger you get angry you're motivated to write the wrong keep that in mind okay so the first question was will you stay in new york city until 2008, only four years away, only 50% of those surveyed say yes.

So half of the people who live in New York city, 8.5 million. I'm thinking about leaving. No, that's a big number. And most of those people are working people who pay taxes. Second question, how do you rate the quality of life

in New York? 30% say excellent or good. 30%. All right. And those people are probably living in estates in Brookville on Long Island or up in Westchester County someplace. Third question. Is the quality of life poor? One third of New York City residents say, yeah, it's bad. Not mediocre, bad. Next question. Is the public safety in your neighborhood excellent or good? 37% say it is.

That's a low number. Are the quality of services excellent or good? 24%. That's garbage pickup, police activity, roads, things like that. Street lights, okay? Is New York, city and state, spending tax dollars wisely? 11% say yes. And those are the ones that are getting the tax dollars sent to them.

All right, so this is grim. I don't mean to laugh about it, but I don't think there's anything new here. States in trouble. You know, Adams can run around all he wants and say, oh, yeah, no, it's okay, it's great, still the best place, blah, bye, bye. So what he has to do. An huckle could say, you don't like it, go to Florida. She shouldn't say that.

What the governor should say is we know there are problems and we're going to fix it. them and make things better, and we're going to start with punishing criminals. That's where you have to start, by the way. You have to punish criminals. And then you have to say no public marijuana use so that people won't walk down the street in a fog. And there's 30 things the state legislature has to do to reverse the quality of life to climb. But the first thing is punish criminals. And then you've got to bring the tax rates down so people can afford to have food. I mean, you can't keep taxing. And there's a million taxes you don't even know about it. Told you yesterday about the Sag Harbor situation where they slapped, the state slapped

a hundred bucks fine on me for nothing after I had to pay 150 to Sag Harbor for going down a one-way street and it wasn't even a sign, a visible sign. It's crazy. That's attacks. That's extortion. Okay? And isn't that just not sag harbor? It's everywhere. So anyway, am I confident that Kathy Hochel and Eric Adams are going to be reformers? No, I'm not.