New York Needs Unity, Not Resentment

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well Mother’s Day and with us today’s Governor David Pattison and Governor give us your evaluation. Way the heck are we well?

0:10 Speaker 2 Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who are listening this morning. And it’s been a very interesting week because more and more some of the major leaders, and really some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are talking about going to other states and mandoning the city and leaving this pile of mess for the mayor that he has largely

0:34 created himself. But I’ll tell you, John, I want to argue against that. I think this is a great city. We’ve all been here for a long time. We’ve been through some really difficult times in this city, and I think this is the time when leadership stands up and shows how well they can lead. So I certainly understand

0:55 how Ken Griffin feels at Citadel and Mamdannie take pictures and basically humiliating himself right in front of mister Griffin’s home. And I totally understand that. You know, some of the other big names like Mark Rowan, you know he’s thinking about moving things. And then Andrew Merstein has actually wanted to contribute a million dollars to a group that would

1:23 get together and try to, you know, counteract some of the information that’s coming right from city Hall that is really it is a killing the city in many ways because they’ve really become the catalyst for all the antagonism that goes on. I wish they’d have a press conference and talk about something that’s positive to help the city.

1:49 So that’s my feeling, and I’ve just decided I’ve just made a list of different people. I know. It turned out that thirteen of them were Democrats and sick Republicans who would sit down and just have a conversation about where the city is going and not to let it get destroyed by the leadership, and also not to let

2:09 it falter because the resources that have kept the city alive are thinking about moving to other places.

2:18 Speaker 1 Well, I mean, there seems to be a bigger divide going on from the north and the south. I mean, is this eighteen fifty again? Well, some people this history repeat itself.

2:34 Speaker 2 Some people are acting like it because there’s some people whose political view is really comprised of many resentments they have. It’s not even as much that they think people have things that they should have. It’s just that they’re jealous and envious of what they do have, and I just think that that is a terrible way to live your life.

2:52 It’s not all about money, it’s not all about popularity, it’s not all about power. But it is in many respects a reflection of the lack of appreciation for what the city is about and what people had to do to make it that way. And then walking on making comments that no one should ever be a billionaire. All

3:17 that does is foment anger and the people who it’s directed at now start thinking about protecting themselves by leaving. I’m hoping they won’t do that.

3:26 Speaker 1 Oh, let me get straightened something out. Aren’t there more billionaires just about in China and in Russia these days, or a lot of them at least.

3:39 Speaker 2 There are a lot of them. But they live in countries where you know.

3:45 Speaker 1 And instead of paying taxes, they pay what do you call the tything to I guess putin oak c the parties, well that in lieu of taxes you pay, they pay the the guy in charge of the couch.

4:04 Speaker 2 Those are communist countries who started out in revolutions against the hierarchy in their countries, and then.

4:12 Speaker 1 In the US, and against the kings in Russia and against the what do they call them in China?

4:20 Speaker 2 I don’t know what they call them. They were the emperors, the emperor’s right and.

4:25 Speaker 1 The emperors against the kings in Russia, against the emperors in China, which means what does that mean?

4:33 Speaker 2 It means that once they threw their hierarchical power out in both places, the people who succeeded.

4:40 Speaker 1 Them became the hierarchical became themselves. That’s exactly what happened. And and when when you remember that organization, I’m not saying it was the Black Lives Matter. They collected all that money and went and b what million dollar homes for themselves. The organization I’m not talking about the people.

5:05 Speaker 2 Listen. Human frailty knows no boundaries. It’s not just the Chinese, it’s not just the Russians. It’s people of all colors and all persuasions. They see an opportunity to take advantage of the rest of the individuals around them, and they do it and never look back.

5:24 Speaker 1 Governor, I agree with you one hundred percent. And you know everybody says, h tax the poor or tax the rich. And once they do do that, once they they play that game, they’re the ones taking advantage of the system.

5:41 Speaker 2 It happens so often, it’s not even a big event these days.

5:47 Speaker 1 Well, history repeats itself. Governor David Patterson, thank you for common sense. And I want to go back to the days where Republicans had common sense and dem Crash had common sense. They sat down and arm wrestled, but at the end of the day they did what’s good for America, what’s good for New Yorker, what’s good for the world.

6:09 Speaker 2 Well, working with you, John, I think we should start talking to some people and maybe we can be the catalyst so that it will start all over again and drive out the negative type of just the negative type of actions that we’ve seen in the city.

6:27 Speaker 1 Well, happy Mother’s Day and Happy Father’s Day is coming. I’m waiting. God bless