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It has felt for a long time like we are stuck in the 1960s. There have been rising crime, urban riots and racial politics, which has led to the complete surrender of the liberal establishment and the expansion of the welfare system.
New York City also has rats Bloomberg reports:
Needed: NYC Rat Czar. Will offer a salary as high as $170,000
Eric Adams, New York’s Mayor, is seeking a leader in the city’s war against rats. He wants someone who is “somewhat lusty” and committed towards the “wholesale killing” of vermin. The new job, which was previously known as the director for rodent mitigation, will pay $120,000 to $170,000 per year and report to deputy mayor for operations.
Adams has escalated his rhetoric against rats in his first year of being mayor. . . Adams stated that rats are the only thing I hate more than anyone in a statement that was posted to Twitter on Thursday. Your dream job is waiting for you if you have the drive, determination and killer instinct to defeat New York City’s relentless rats population.
This could be the beginning of the end for our current madness. It was the controversy over federal rat extermination in 1967 that marked a turning point against 1960s liberalism. President Johnson, still being swept along by the flood tides of his Great Society nonsense proposed a $40 million federal rat eradication programme for major cities. This was a typical expression that the view that all social problems require a central federal solution–a view that is still very much with us.
For once, even Democrats thought that this was too extreme. To defeat the rat bill, 59 House Democrats joined 148 Republicans. This episode was notable for its rhetoric and not the relatively small amount involved. LBJ’s “civil Rats” bill was mocked by Congressmen, who proposed a “rat corps” that would be presided over “a high commissioner for rats,” which Mayor Adams unironically wants to imitate. “Mr. “Mr.
This is Donald Trump’s method for eliminating rats from the husks of the rat-infested, bankrupt Commodore Hotel he bought back in the 1980s. Trump released a large number of feral cats to take care of the rat problem after pest control experts declared they couldn’t do it. It’s no wonder that the rats in the administrative states fear Trump so much.
