"Bloated" lmao. I don't think there's a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding
It’s bloated because it’s not “their kids.”
To be more accurate it's not "white" kids. 😒
But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see
I remember that season of The Wire!
This is literally the logic used to route public money toward "charter" (private) schools.
The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.
Same for our healthcare.
Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.
The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.
He might legit be the only effective politician
Many other politicians are also very effective. Just not for their voters.
Schools make you intelligent. Intelligence is anathema to conservatives/regressives.
It makes you articulate, and it builds critical thinking.
"already bloated budget"
This bitch is crying that they spend too much on education in the same article that he talks about how edution stats from last year show that students are falling behind. And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase. Pretty fucking marginal. He's specifically whining that those dollars don't go to police instead.
The majority of that money is going to keep schools funded and open whose enrollment is dipping, because otherwise you have school closures, redistricting, and lost teaching, administrative, service, and maintenance jobs, etc. And that only after months or years of limited resources and worse overall education and opportunities for the students.
That's the thing though. Less education and more police is exactly what these people want. They don't want well-educated poor people. Because well-educated poor people don't vote the way they want them to. They know their rights and they have the intelligence to make informed decisions. And this is terrifying to the elite class in our society. Educated peasants are the most dangerous thing to a feudal land owning group.
This figure from Germany shows it clearly:
It shows voting differences in correlation to the level of education.
Green party | far left party | libertarian party | a new weird split off from the far left party | center left party | center right party | far right party
(Certain) Americans: wait what, seven parties? How do you even remember them all?
And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase.
Isn’t inflation currently like 4.1%? So this is not even a budgetary increase commensurate with inflation? Clowns.
In fairness, I think the budget itself had already increased this year before this new increase. This is 680 mil on top of the already increased budget.
new York post be like
NYPost is written for leaded gasoline survivors.
Mamdani could walk out onto the street corner and just stand there, and Republicans would just shit their pants and scream all day. it's their job. just the fact that he exists is absolute torment to them.
I love it
he's their new Obama. remember the tan suit and the dijon mustard bullshit? it's what they attack because they have nothing else.
They complained that he violated pool dress code by jumping into a pool with his suit on, to start the season off. What the fuck kind of complaint is that, honestly. Unless hoards of children start jumping in with full business attire, I think we'll all be fine.
They complain about anything petty they can possibly complain about, because it distracts from their political positions, which are desperately unpopular
They're manufacturing things to be upset about, because he has a serious amount of popular momentum. It must be hard as he continues to fucking kill it in terms of policy. All the charts showing the achievements as if they are a bad thing are all you need to understand how out of touch these folks are.
The weird talking points like complaining about him jumping into a pool in a suit tend to come around when more substantive arguments aren't materializing.
It's a party of Karen's. What do you expect?
Republicans fume at the mere existence of anyone different than them
In this case it's not about being different, but being successful and popular. Fascists don't have competence, they can't compete against competence.
In this case it’s not about being different, but being successful and popular.
That's different for them.
has he been spotted riding a bicycle already? That was among the most ridiculous of the Obama "scandals".
he rode a Citi Bike to work one of his first days in office, and the right collectively shit their pants. FOX News hosts went hoarse from screaming about it non-stop for a week
Josh Johnson said it’s like Mamdani found the “make government work” button that nobody else wanted to press.
But when government does stuff, that's socialism. And the news tells me that is scary.
Yeah, I can’t remember who it was that was screaming this over and over, but some right wing politician was freaking out saying “do you know how many New Yorkers are on Medicare?“ And all I could think was, “anyone who can’t afford their own,” because that’s what New York does. If you’re below a certain income level, and can’t afford your own insurance, New York State will cover you. I know this because that’s how I had health insurance when I lived in NYC. It’s awesome.
And here’s this Republican asshole, freaking out, making it sound like everyone having health insurance is somehow a bad thing, lol
I like how they say bloated. Carry that implication that public school bad.
It is bad. But only because it's been so chronically underfunded and dismantled by decades of abuse.
IE not becuse it's bloated. Quite the opposite.
But the school budget is "bloated," how could he give more money to the public school system? Charter schools need that money so we can teach our future about being taken advantage of and being propagandized.
School budget is bloated but the ~~genocide~~ military fund could use another trillion or two.
Can we make the New York post just... Go away? They're a net negative on society
This but with right-wing ideology as a whole
But if we got rid of the NY post, whose going to write articles blaming the immigrants?
Somehow directing millions to people's education is wasteful, but having a trillionary ($1.000.000.000.000) is totally reasonable.
That's the problem! Dumb Wokedani isn't giving money to trillionaires to build data centers! Argh
Trillionaire would be $1.000.000.000.000, wouldn't it?
$1.000.000.000.000.000.000 would be quintillionaire?
Yes, thank you.
I liked it when he froze the rent and a lot of Republicans started ranting about how people didn't have to pay rent at all. They might not know what a policy even is, but if it's Mamdammy, it must be bad.
I just want to put this here for context...
NY Independent Budget Office FY 2026: https://www.ibo.nyc.gov/assets/ibo/downloads/pdf/education/2025/2025-december-a-slow-start-limited-progress-in-first-years-towards-class-size-compliance.pdf
Thanks for these. The New York State law that the city just comply with further contextualizes things.
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