Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Shrinking Population

Episode Date: March 15, 2024

Bill discusses why he can't make the move out of New York despite it's shrinking population. 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

Beautiful day in New York. I hope you got out and about. Winter looks like it's over. Global warming kicks in. And I like the nice 60s, 70s temperatures. So I'm going to get to that in a moment. There is data released today. I bet you haven't heard about this.

So this is the latest census estimate. in New York City. Last year, 2003, about 80,000 residents of the city left. And the population of NYC dropped to 8.26 million. Okay? About 80,000 split. Since 2022, 126,000 New York City folks have moved out. 126,000.

now obviously we have a shrinking population and the reason is social disorder high taxation all of that comes in now this morning i was on sid and friends i guess i'm one of the friends of sid and sid was in florida i guess he's schmoozing with trump yesterday and uh he's in there and he used to work at florida he was a perpetual tan like George Hamilton, you know, sit. So he's saying to me, oh, it's so nice down here, and why not, are you going to move down here, O'Reilly, and da, and I was there last week. I was in Florida last week.

It was nice, but it was too hot for me. On March 9th, it was 87 degrees in Palm Beach, 85% humidity. I could not go to the Met Cardinal game because our seats were in the sun. I would have been in, you know, I'd call the EMS. I would have been in the emergency room sitting there for seven. seven innings in the Florida Sun, I couldn't do it. And that's the big reason that I don't move to Florida. I could move to the mountains of North Carolina or the shoreline of South Carolina, but I'm not a guy that responds real well to heat because I'm Irish. And by the way, happy St. Patrick's

State coming up on Sunday. And the DNA of my folks is Northern Europe. That's it. They were going away. Some people can take the heat. I told Sid, look, he goes, you should move down and blah, blah, blah, blah, and I said, if I go, and I have lived in Florida. I taught ice school down there for two years, and that was my base point for covering the wars in El Salvador, the Falklands, and all of that. So I know South Florida really, really well, and I know it well enough to say, I can't live there from June 1st to October 15th. I can't breathe.

I have to do my Wizard of Oz imitation. I'm melting! I would be literally melting. As you get older, you're more susceptible to climate, both hot and cold. And I said to Rosenberg, I said, look, I'm loyal to New York. I'm born in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. My mother was a physical therapist there. We moved out to Levittown, where I was raised. I went to college in New York. My ties are very deep. I got my business here, I've got my friends here, I keep my old friends, I've got my kids, and for me to pick up and go to Boca, I mean, I, now, I might have to. If Albany passes a wealth tax, you can kiss O'Reilly goodbye. I'm out of here, and I'm not going to be alone.

Okay, because that's communist stuff. It's unconstitutional, so I don't believe it's going to happen. But the damage that the progressive left is done to New York City and New York State is almost incalculable at this point. And why most voters in New York don't understand that is beyond me. I just don't, if you can't see the damage before your very eyes, what's wrong with you? That's why I'm doing this show on WABC every day. They try to wise everybody up because what I tell you is absolutely true. Now, if this continues, this exodus of mostly successful people moving out of New York, and they're being replaced by migrants and people who have to work their way up.

So the tax base is going to get lower and lower and lower. And that means the taxes that all been imposed to get higher and higher and higher. And working people can't pay any more tax because housing costs are so high in New York. and that'll lead to more. See, they call it a doom loop. And the Albany legislature and the governor better wise up. I figure you got about three or four more years. If this social disorder continues, taxation continues, chaos continues, the state's going to blow up.