NY Post
“People will die” if City Hall follows through with a plan to lay off nearly 400 EMTs and paramedics, the head of the union representing those workers told The Post.
Oren Barzilay, head of EMS Local 2507, said FDNY brass told him that 10 percent of the city’s 3,700 EMTs and paramedics will be cut under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to slash 22,000 municipal workers.
“The response times will go through the roof. That would put people at risk. People will die,” Barzilay warned.
De Blasio has said the reductions will come in October if the city doesn’t get state or federal aid to fill a major budget deficit caused by the coronavirus. Earlier this month he ordered agencies to come up with lists of cuts, according to Politico.
The number of EMTs and paramedics has already dropped from 4,100 before the pandemic. Four of his members died from the virus and three others committed suicide, Barzilay said. They were on the frontline of the crisis, rushing patients to hospitals around the five boroughs.
During the pandemic, his members responded to 7,000 emergency 911 calls, nearly double the normal amount.
“We were the only ones going into homes to save lives. That’s what we did. This is the thanks the men and women from EMS are now getting,” Barzilay fumed.
“COVID is not over. What happens if there is a surge?” he asked.
Reps for FDNY and City Hall did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Another union source said the cuts are nearly inconceivable.
“I don’t know where they would trim EMS, we are understaffed,” said Anthony Almojera, vice president of EMS Local 3621.
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Stop voting for liberal politicians. Problem solved.
Moe said...
Congratulations Cuomo and De blasio you have single handedly brought nyc to its knees.
Send Comrade de Blasio and his crooked wife to Riker's Island.
The words “corrupt” and New york “Demorats” are basically the same at one point.
Moe said...
De blasio will be remembered as the man that destroyed the greatest city on earth.
Human garbage...
QC Reader said...
So she will get arrested right...? Like Bannon?
https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/2020-financial-state-of-the-cities
Here are the rankings (from best to worst):
Click on the city’s name to learn more about it on Data-Z
1. Irvine Taxpayer Surplus: $4,100
2. Washington, D.C. Taxpayer Surplus: $3,500
3. Charlotte Taxpayer Surplus: $3,400
4. Fresno Taxpayer Surplus: $3,200
5. Plano Taxpayer Surplus: $2,800
6. Stockton Taxpayer Surplus: $2,600
7. Lincoln Taxpayer Surplus: $2,500
8. Aurora Taxpayer Surplus: $2,200
9. Arlington Taxpayer Surplus: $2,100
10. Tampa Taxpayer Surplus: $1,700
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62. Milwaukee Taxpayer Burden: $12,800
63. St. Louis Taxpayer Burden: $14,500
64. Pittsburgh Taxpayer Burden: $15,600
65. Cincinnati Taxpayer Burden: $15,600
66. Baltimore Taxpayer Burden: $16,000
67. San Francisco Taxpayer Burden: $17,000
68. Nashville Taxpayer Burden: $18,400
69. Portland Taxpayer Burden: $18,400
70. Oakland Taxpayer Burden: $18,600
71. New Orleans Taxpayer Burden: $18,800
72. Philadelphia Taxpayer Burden: $25,500
73. Honolulu Taxpayer Burden: $26,400
74. Chicago Taxpayer Burden: $37,100
75. New York City Taxpayer Burden: $63,100
Any questions?
No problem, just send one of the thrivenyc employees...
Chirlane McRay's "THIEVE NYC" would not only be a better name, but it would also be a more honest one, would it not?
Dam shame this will each NYC voters absolutely anything.
When is this sick bastards term up ?
Why doesn't deBlasio cut the DOE that has perhaps 3 administrative positions for every student?
In the age of computers you no longer need all these chushy $100K+ benefit loaded jobs on the taxpayor. How about put a small Gym in Gracie mansion, pot plants on the roof VS a caravan of SUVs, armed police to Brooklyn to cop dope and rowing machine every morning.
How the fuck did New Yorker continue to reward these assholes with re-election I have no idea.
New York is headed to bankruptcy because deBlasio invited half the planets derelicts, freeloaders & super-breeding locust people here with his sanctuary city policy. Most illiterate in any language with no intention of assimilating.
Not caused by a virus, the problem is democrat mental illness & drug addiction!!
If you live on a first floor or basement be prepared to defend yourself from home invasion when "free stuff" tap runs completely dry.
At least install steel bars & metal screen (so most your cocktail fragments bounce off) and keep 2 fully charged large fire extinguishes in ever room.
Option 2: Move, however this is exactly what the mayor WANTS you to do.
The mayor wants to crush real estate value and private home owners. Slumlords then can then scoop it up and make small cheap apartments, 1 in every 4 units 25% sec 8 to pay the mortgage and rubber stamped permits & COEs for alterations.
This in turn has a block buster effect to drive more working class whites out of places like Maspeth and Middle village. Have the Chinese cash bulldoze and slap up more pre-fab boxes. Those pricks build right up to the adjacent home covering the windows, damaging the foundations.
One big "FU" sanctioned by this mayor, wife and City Council Communist posse I call the "CCC". These democrats are working just like the KKK did in the south only without the funny costumes and the target is every private home, bicycle and automobile that isn't shared with a person of color or person of poverty.
And that's what I think is the truth, Am I right or am I wrong ?
Ned
www.nra.org
From Boris Bazhanov's "Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary," published in 1980 in Paris and 2002 in Moscow available only in French and in Russian.
"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."
How the fuck did New Yorker continue to reward these assholes with re-election I have no idea.
1. Import illegals with no idea on the dynamics of representative American democracy or the traditional rights and privileges of an American citizen. Remember that previous waves of immigrants also came from countries where traditional American representative democracy did not exist, but corrupt political clubhouse factions ruled the streets.
2. Actively suppress and discourage unauthorized participation in, and unscripted behavior by, any resident - above all, in school teach indigenous cultures but NEVER American civics!
You Democrats made New York what it is, so live with it. It's been on the slab so long that none of you can remember when it was really alive.
Absolutely!
Liberal assholes are emptying my pockets!
A predator and rapacious scourge like Bloomberg murdered New York (after Giuliani flat lined Gotham, with impunity), and now Team de BLASS-hole and Sonny CUOMIGULA murdered it for a second time, posthumously.
If ever there were two demonic forces of corruption, graft and greed that needed to be eliminated, then it woudld be these two destroyers of all pretense of public trust, ethics, integrity, ACCOUNTABILITY and transparency. Serving hard time in an Arctic prison would be the only just punishment for their heinous and unconscionable crimes against humanity.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
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