History is warning us. Is anyone listening?

In the 2000s, Greece promised its people everything: generous benefits, endless subsidies, and government jobs for all. People worked less because the state would provide. The wealthy paid the tab—until they didn’t. When tax revenues dried up and debt exploded, the system collapsed. Riots filled the streets as fantasy met harsh reality.
Sound familiar?

That’s exactly where New York City is heading. Sky-high taxes chase away the productive and wealthy while politicians keep expanding social programs, promising the world without asking where the money will come from. The city borrows and spends like tomorrow will never arrive—betting not just on Washington to bail it out, but on the entire state of New York to keep funneling cash into its broken system. Meanwhile, upstate taxpayers carry the weight of a city eating itself alive.

The worst part? Many living off subsidies know the game. They understand the policies but have no idea how to escape. How do you go back to work after years of dependency when no one offers a real exit plan? The system keeps them trapped—by design.

Look at Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, New York—smaller cities following the same failed blueprint: everything subsidized, landlords turning neighborhoods into slums, food stamps replacing paychecks, communities stripped of dignity. When dignity dies, man dies. These cycles never end well.

Meanwhile, the Robin Hood effect runs rampant. The wealthy cram into historic districts, paying the highest taxes while surrounded by crime and decay. Why do they stay? How long can they keep funding a system that punishes success and rewards failure?

Now, meet your new mayor—Zohran. His parents fled Uganda, then another part of Africa, before settling in New York City when Zohran was just seven. You’d think that experience would teach him independence and self-reliance. Instead, it seems his parents taught him that codependency was the way to survive.

Here’s the problem: codependency masquerades as compassion but enables weakness. We all know codependents have big hearts—but big hearts without tough love don’t help anyone. They don’t build strong communities or self-sufficiency. They breed dependency and despair—on a massive scale. And that’s exactly what current policies are doing to New York City.

Greece taught us a painful lesson: you cannot redistribute what you don’t produce. Dependency is not compassion—it’s a countdown clock. NYC’s inertia and refusal to face fiscal reality mirror Greece’s last days before the crash. When the bill comes due, there will be no one left to pay it.

We can keep pretending there’s endless money, or we can change course before New York becomes Athens 2.0. The choice is now, not after the lights go out.

So go ahead, vote for your new mayor Zohran. But ask yourself: why did his parents bring him here from the very same third-world socialist countries they tried to escape… only to push those same failed ideas on our soil?