Roosevelt did the same thing too when soldiers came back from the war and couldn’t find work and their government Bonds were expired. He designed a lot of unification projects like bridges and all sorts of projects while those bridges are beautiful and they’re still standing today showing that we don’t have to do things cheap and we can still help people that’s grades are under that our governments to do that invest in their people.
I saw so many people commenting on social media how they have never seen the sidewalks and streets cleared that fast in New York. He is winning people over quickly.
New york city has a 25billion dollar budget deficit.
Id need to see data on the cost comparison w alternatives.
Public Works is a net-generator of revenue for a municipality. They allow businesses to operate, which increases tax revenue.
The alternative to hiring people to shovel the snow is having business halt and the city taking a massive loss in tax revenue, to say nothing of the social, economic, and public safety benefits.
Tax 1% of the 1% and you instantly make that back. Why argue over pennies?
This is great, but I love that he gave the school kids of New York an actual, honest-to-god snow day. No remote class, no logging on.
For an example of how crucial it is too keep roads accessible and decongested, look at the Philippines. Metro Manila is currently losing 3.5 billion pesos PER DAY due to the constant congestion, and is on track for that loss reaching 6 billion. An average company employee might earn somewhere between 20-30k per month there, so 3.5 billion is a lot of money by Filipino measure.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer is smarter than all conservatives combined
It’s a shame that removing the crayon didn’t work for RFK.
The worm ate it
Homer’s brain is anyway, the thoughts don’t usually make it all the way through Homer.
S-M-R-Ter you mean.
Tell that to conservatives that say to cut taxes and social services.
Woo hoo!
Does that include a peanut?
Ok, but all that money wasted on streets could have gone to a private pocket of a nepo tech startup promising AI billboards that would feed ads to ppl & the city would subsidise to “promote innovation”.
/s
That’s oddly specific, did I miss something?
You mean paying contractors exorbitant rates for
slaveprison laborers being paid $2.00/hr while the executives pocket most of the money?
How DARE he use MY Tax Money to make MY Life EASIER! EVERYONE knows Tax Money is meant for RICH PEOPLE and NO ONE else!
$30/hr, $45/hr overtime
Yea… that’s how time & a half works…
A lot of seasonal workers are exempt from earning overtime.
What did they mock him for? Too expensive? Won’t work?
Probably both, yeah. They’re not exactly known for being objectively right about things…
How will he ever make a profit?!
Mamdani didn’t invent anything; plenty of Mayors, Dem and GOP have done the same thing when there was a blizzard.
Of course, it’s different if a GOP mayor does it…
Where did anyone say anything about inventing anything?
It’s so funny to me. I point out GOP hypocrisy, but apparently I didn’t do it in the right way, so I’m getting downvoted.
It’s like you didn’t read my entire comment and just went off because you detected a slur I didn’t make.
Congratulations, you’re acting exactly like the folks who attacked Mamdani.
It doesn’t sound like you find it very funny.
Congratulations.
You’ve discovered sarcasm!
Lemmy is a bit like Reddit but without the nice factor. Love to read only the worst possible interpretation and then pile on.
I remember the very beginnings of Reddit where there was a “downvote ≠ disagree” rule and it was so much nicer. People only downvoted things that weren’t relevant or in genuinely bad faith. We’ve come a long way from those days. Now I think people get genuine dopamine hits from downvoting an already downvoted comment rather than reading it for themselves.
1: Snow happens
2: Republicans criticize Mamdani for snow not melting at below freezing
3: Mamdani announces well paying jobs as solution to get rid of snow. Right wing demagogues mock the initiative.
4: It works EXACTLY as intended, which pleases the left
5: You criticize Mamdani for not inventing the snow shovel 6000 years ago in a bog in Russia
Ok, but 30$/hr for shoveling snow with the benefits of a government job is a wee too much
Its an emergency situation, we had the largest blizzard in 10+ years. I think paying a higher wage over a short term for exigent circumstances where you really want people to show up is reasonable. Its roughly equivalent to a mid-level salary for a garbage man (which is probably too low for garbage men, but at least they get insurance and other gov’t job perks.)
Also, they don’t get government job perks like health insurance or a pension.
I once heard a way to think about this kind of comment…
It’s not that you think they’re being paid too much - it’s that you think it’s too much relative to what you make vs your own work and your own value assessment.
And that doesn’t mean they’re paid too much - it means YOU’RE probably being underpaid too. Be angry at your own boss - not the ones who pay better. This “paid too much” idea is worker vs worker class warfare to keep everyone miserable. Don’t do the capitalists’ work for them. Every worker who does better is ultimately better for all of us.
How so? It’s a physically demanding job, and pay also has to be scaled with the fact that NYC is one of the most expensive cities to live in.
It’s also a lot of calories burnt. Like, I would definitely need to double up on what I currently eat in meals at least if I were doing that all day and I already have an active, physically demanding job.
How much have you paid in the past for some clearing your driveway? That’s about the going rate to have someone plow your driveway and it’s way less than an hour’s work. Personally it should be more to work all day shoveling, it’s really hard work.
Would $20/hr make it acceptable to you? $15? Minimum wage? When you find a point that’s different but acceptable, that’s a hangup, not a standard.
