There Is a Deteriorating Quality of Life in New York

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning.

0:01 Speaker 2 Well, what is today is Governor George Pataki, one of the greatest governors that well, New York State has ever had. Governor, thank you for calling in this Sunday morning. What’s on your mind and how can we maintain common sense in our city, our state, our country.

0:18 Speaker 3 Well, John, first of all, it’s always great being on with you, and what you’ve done with ABC is incredible, So thank you and thank you for having me on.

0:26 Speaker 1 I’ll tell you what has me upset.

0:28 Speaker 3 It’s just the attitude of a lot of our elites, including the media and the government, towards our police. You know, they talked about a snowball fight where the police had snowballs thrown at him.

0:41 Speaker 1 That’s not the case.

0:43 Speaker 3 This was an assault upon New York City police officers where they threw, yes, snowballs, but also rocks and ice. And it was a deliberate as New York Police officers in uniform, and yet our city and our state are doing nothing. They decided not to prosecute the people who were involved in this, and it just is a part

1:02 of a continuing decline in the quality of life.

1:06 Speaker 1 And support for the police that we see in this city.

1:09 Speaker 2 Well, I mean, I agree with you one percent. They described it as a fight, but it was really not a fight. I mean because all the snow walls were being thrown at the police officers, and the police officers were given restrictions that they couldn’t do anything about it exactly.

1:28 Speaker 3 I mean, I bit when I was a kid, I wasn’t slow ball fied, so you throw.

1:32 Speaker 1 Them at each other.

1:33 Speaker 3 But this was an assault upon police officers who were not allowed to fight back, and the district atturning brag Mondemi and the rest say, oh, let them go, it’s not a big deal.

1:45 Speaker 1 Well, it is a big deal.

1:47 Speaker 3 And when you look at New York City, it is the greatest place in the world, but the quality of life is falling. We don’t have the respect for the police, and the police have the hardest job in the world.

1:56 And this is just another example. We have mentally ill people, obviously mentally ill, on the streets in the subways, harassing people, and the government does nothing about it. And I just saw a recent poll, and I don’t believe a whole lot in polls, but it was a statewide pole where one out of every three people of resident of New

2:15 York State are seriously considering leaving. It’s too expensive, it’s too complicated, overregulated, crime is still too high, and we don’t have the quality of life that we should.

2:29 Speaker 2 I agree with you, because I’ve said that when I was on television last week, I said, the most important thing in New York that’s not negotiable is the quality of life. And I worry about my employees in our city.

2:44 I worry about the shoplifting that that nobody nobody does anything about it. You know, that’s a point where there’s nobody, nobody goes to jail.

2:55 Speaker 1 You’re absolutely right.

2:56 Speaker 3 I mean, that’s just another symbol of how the quality of life for all New Yorkers is in serious declines. You know, the shoplifting is a crime, and we have prosecutors, and we have a government in Albany that refuses to do anything about it. When you go into a drug store, the things you want to buy are locked up, not

3:17 highly expensive one hundred dollars electric raisers or something, but cheap things that you take for granted. It just tells you that the quality of life in New York City, in New York State is in serious decline. That was never the case, and what drives me nuts, John, and it gets my blood boiling, is that this is all preventable.

3:37 Speaker 1 This wasn’t the.

3:37 Speaker 3 Case ten years ago, when we had good leadership at the state, when we had good leadership in the city, when we had prosecutors who upheld the law as opposed to brag. You didn’t have these problems. You didn’t have a shoplifting, You didn’t have your goods you want to buy locked up behind a key and you needed to

3:53 get an aid. You didn’t have the police being assaulted. And no one has held accountable even when they know who did it. This has failed leadership. And they may smile to for all the cameras the media, it may call it all a snowball fight when it was in fact an assault on our police officers.

4:10 Speaker 1 But the people of New York see this.

4:12 Speaker 3 Maybe not the elites, maybe not the far left to run the city in the state, but the people on the streets see this. And that’s why one and three are seriously considering leaving.

4:22 Speaker 1 John. You and I aren’t going anywhere. We’re in New Yorkers. We love this city, we love this state.

4:27 Speaker 3 But we have to speak up and try to get.

4:29 Speaker 1 The others to understand that this.

4:31 Speaker 3 Can’t continue or this great city.

4:34 Speaker 1 And state are just going to decline.

4:36 Speaker 2 I agree with you one hundred percent, and thank you again for calling in this Sunday morning. And I don’t know what deal that was cut with the new mayor of Mundamie with President Trump on affordable housing. New York does need more affordable housing. Washington has a big checkbook.

4:54 But I hope we straightened out things with mundami as far as the police officers being hired in the future, as far as common sense and quality of life. And you know President Trump, you know him as well as I do. He makes good deals, and I hope, I hope common sense prevails on both sides.

5:17 Speaker 3 Well, John, absolutely, you’ve been for the whole way through a better New York and a way to get the better New York’s.

5:22 Speaker 1 Common sense, and sadly we just don’t.

5:25 Speaker 3 See much of that in New York City in government or in Albany in government. And that’s got to change. And you know you and I will both continue to speak up and hope that the people understand this and make the necessary changes.

5:40 Speaker 2 Well, Governor George Bertacky, thank you, and I look forward to seeing you real soon. John.

5:45 Speaker 1 Always say thing on with you to see you soon. Take care,