Jeff Bezos shows how to call out Mamdani’s – Latest News
Bravo: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos laid out a entire lot of home truths about New York City in his CNBC interview Wednesday, precisely the type of factor more New Yorkers (particularly our mayor) need to hear.
His slam of the town Department of Education was epic: “If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take six weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it.”
Absolutely: City Hall now burns almost $45 billion a yr on the common public faculties, over $43,000 a scholar — and as enrollment collapses, it merely spends more per head, with out ever exhibiting broad enchancment in take a look at scores (besides, often, the dumbed-down exams produced by the anti-education State Education Department).
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Note that Bezos shouldn’t be opposed to spending on faculties: His household simply donated over $100 million for NYC preschools.
The reward comes through the Jackie Bezos Endowment for Early Childhood, named for the billionaire’s late mom — who, he famous on MSNOW, was a teen mother in Albuquerque, NM, who along with his adoptive dad (an immigrant from Cuba) wound up launching him on his own highway to success.
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He pointedly slapped Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s idiotic April 15 “we’re taxing the rich” video exterior the home of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin: “That piece of it isn’t right, and there was no reason to do that,” since: “Griffin isn’t a villain. He hasn’t hurt anybody. He’s not hurting New York. In fact, quite the opposite.”
How’s that? “The way you make $1 billion, or $100 million or $10 million or anything, is you create a service that people love, and if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with a billion dollars.”
More, Bezos dissed politicians’ “technique of picking a villain and pointing fingers,” noting fairly rightly that unhealthy authorities coverage creates many issues — together with pushing up rents.
Bezos himself pays “billions of dollars in taxes,” and making him pay more would clear up nothing: “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens, I promise you.”
In all, it was a fantastic distinction to the current timidity of Jamie Dimon and David Solomon, two Wall Street titans who performed good when assembly with the mayor as Mamdani tried to construct bridges after his Griffin fiasco.
Hmm: Unlike these two, Bezos’ business has no big presence within the metropolis (not after progressives derailed Amazon’s bid to construct an East Coast headquarters right here).
Maybe you need to be a (principally) out-of-town gazillionaire to call out the illness that’s killing this city.
