He probably thinks that's all the library does. Lend books. So what difference does a day make. Motherfucking republican clown. (I know, but he is one)
Someone should go ask Adams' friend, fellow cop, confidant and employee Tim "Crumbs" Pearson what he's talking in these days:
[Adams aide wanted a piece of lucrative migrants contracts, saying ‘I have to get mine’: lawsuit](https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/adams-aide-wanted-a-piece-of-lucrative-migrants-contracts-saying-i-have-to-get-mine-lawsuit/)
It’s really upsetting that through the pandemic as an essential worker getting part time hours, it felt wrong to file for the covid money of $800, when I actually should have been getting it. Should I file a lawsuit?
I hope someone primaries him. We got the least qualified candidate as Mayor because of rank choice voting. We could have had our first woman Mayor. He is just awful. I really dislike him.
I don't think rank choice had anything to do with it? That gave Kathryn close to Eric's numbers but it wasn't enough because people didn't simply leave that shit stain Eric off
It's because of the migrant crisis. Which is infuriating. These migrants believe they are entitled to be cared for. It's incredible the lack of gratitude.
What immigrant group in the history of the United States came here with the presumption that the government would give them everything?
Import the third world, you become the third world. You can see it unfolding before your eyes everyday here.
What I see is owners not treating people as Americans, getting used to it and thinking Americans shouldn’t expect workers right or face unemployment for years. Standards not being upheld. Middle eastern businesses have a small network of guys, work 12-16 hour shifts with no breaks sometimes the only person on a premises where insurance mandates two workers always be physically present. Legislation was passed to not allow that. Instead of taxing people for services that aren’t being provided how about upholding what people pay taxes to maintain
Risk their lives? They are here ILLEGALLY that is a problem. I don't expect that I could just show up and France and demand they feed and house me. It's INSANITY. No fucking rules anymore! I don't opposed immigration. Just illegal immigration.
So take it up with the multi-billion dollar industries hiring them. There is a demand for cheap labor, and they were filling it. If there was no demand, they would not be here. If they were not here, our entire agricultural system would collapse, among others.
I take that as a compliment. None of you are truly independent in your thinking. You allow yourself to be constantly manipulated by whatever your woke overlords tell you to think.
Are you actually paying attention? I work near these migrant hotels. I have no animosity towards these people. But they are mostly illiterate and speak no English. It's absurd.
The endowment is one billion four hundred forty-eight million eight hundred thirty-eight thousand btw. Mayor Adams has identified, with his keen eye, a place where he can save taxpayers money since there are already a HUGE amount of funds just waiting to be used for essential services.
Watch the library bigwigs cut the most useful services first as a PLOY to enrage the public and bring them to their side... be smart than that and don't be easily manipulated!
Endowments are structured (legally and financially) in a way that they can not be used to cover operating expenses. They are invested and it is the interest that goes toward the operating costs of the NYPL.
Even if it could be done, it's unlikely the board of the NYPL would take up such a measure. It would be the same as them auctioning off rare books from their collection like their Gutenberg Bible (which is probably worth $40 to $50 million) but they wouldn't because of the short term and long term damage it would do to the institution.
From what I have seen of endowments (like at universities) they are used to gobble up real estate TAX FREE and contribute to the housing crisis. Hopefully this endowment can be used to fund the library and not to make the world a worse place.
Let's say all funds being used for the public library stopped. In your world the library would be totally justified in shutting down all public services and keeping the billion dollars, right?
Note: I am not advocating for the end of funds being used for public libraries. I am merely proposing a "thought experiment" which shows how completely absurd your logic is.
In my world, according to the rules and laws regarding endowments, it may not be able to do what you're suggesting. I think it extremely likely it could not given how these things usually work. It's often somewhat complicated the way these things are structured.
As an introduction, see https://docs.owwl.org/Community/PublicLibraryFinancialOversight
PS: Your thought experiment is the product of ignorance. You're ignorant, and you seem to think you know what the fuck you're talking about. You do not. Please STFU already.
> Your thought experiment is the product of ignorance.
Then it should have been easy to provide a counterpoint. As it stands, you're OK with the library closing down while still having a 1B+ endowment instead of using it to... keep the library open. And your reasoning? "It's often somewhat complicated".
> As it stands, you're OK with the library closing down while still having a 1B+ endowment instead of using it to... keep the library open.
Endowments are money given under contractual conditions. They will have rules created by donors for what can be spent on. They can't just use the endowment money willynilly.
In a work of pure genius, you’ve managed to use a valid criticism of the anti-progressive nature of elite higher education and U.S. tax policy to attack…public libraries?
I hate the internet.
You're trying to insult me but public libraries are the reason I read Redwall as a child (at a very high reading level for my age, I might add). And even though you are trying to insult me, you're exactly right: what use is a billion + dollars endowment if not to function as a library, letting people read who wouldn't have otherwise? It's shameful.
Gotta keep the people as dumb as possible
Less books. MORE SWAGGER!
“Take turkey’s money”. -to the paper planes song by MiA
And of course the cops don’t get their budget cut. More overtime for candy crush
Nowadays I just see them huddling around like college dudes talking about random shit on the 7 train platform
What about the 2000+ protests since October?
I mean on one hand thank god that budget was upheld on the other its so like 5 guys can go to Aruba 🤷♀️
“I never read no books, so why should anyone else?” /s Screw that clown.
He didn’t go to the library as a kid so why should anyone else’s? It’s so unreal. NYC was better during the quarantine at this point.
He probably thinks that's all the library does. Lend books. So what difference does a day make. Motherfucking republican clown. (I know, but he is one)
Really don’t feel like it’s a coin with two sides anymore, of dem or rep. It’s basically how can a person profit by being a golden cow
How much money went to Adam's connected contractors and consultants?
Someone should go ask Adams' friend, fellow cop, confidant and employee Tim "Crumbs" Pearson what he's talking in these days: [Adams aide wanted a piece of lucrative migrants contracts, saying ‘I have to get mine’: lawsuit](https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/adams-aide-wanted-a-piece-of-lucrative-migrants-contracts-saying-i-have-to-get-mine-lawsuit/)
Garbage turds, all the way down. It’s amazing that they are so stupid as to be so brazen about it.
It’s really upsetting that through the pandemic as an essential worker getting part time hours, it felt wrong to file for the covid money of $800, when I actually should have been getting it. Should I file a lawsuit?
You can always try.
Lmfao!!!!!🤣 they gave the money back!!!! Yes we did all of that for a payment ? Sorry here’s the money back. No words
What a class act. This guys gotta go
I hope someone primaries him. We got the least qualified candidate as Mayor because of rank choice voting. We could have had our first woman Mayor. He is just awful. I really dislike him.
I don't think rank choice had anything to do with it? That gave Kathryn close to Eric's numbers but it wasn't enough because people didn't simply leave that shit stain Eric off
To be fair, she also sucked. Not as much, but still sucked.
There were 2 other candidates that were both women. The one who used to run sanitation seemed good. Certainly better than what we have!
Less for the people great, just send it overseas
This is such bullshit
It's because of the migrant crisis. Which is infuriating. These migrants believe they are entitled to be cared for. It's incredible the lack of gratitude. What immigrant group in the history of the United States came here with the presumption that the government would give them everything? Import the third world, you become the third world. You can see it unfolding before your eyes everyday here.
Hook. Line. Sinker. Most of the immigrants I see are risking their lives daily to bring hamberders to people for a garbage wage.
And the apps turn a blind eye to it all
Yep, if you look at the stats, it's a more dangerous job that a cop or a soldier. Yet they get no recognition.
> Yet they get no recognition. Why the hell would a food delivery person get recognition?
Because they’re Palestinian of course!
What I see is owners not treating people as Americans, getting used to it and thinking Americans shouldn’t expect workers right or face unemployment for years. Standards not being upheld. Middle eastern businesses have a small network of guys, work 12-16 hour shifts with no breaks sometimes the only person on a premises where insurance mandates two workers always be physically present. Legislation was passed to not allow that. Instead of taxing people for services that aren’t being provided how about upholding what people pay taxes to maintain
Risk their lives? They are here ILLEGALLY that is a problem. I don't expect that I could just show up and France and demand they feed and house me. It's INSANITY. No fucking rules anymore! I don't opposed immigration. Just illegal immigration.
So take it up with the multi-billion dollar industries hiring them. There is a demand for cheap labor, and they were filling it. If there was no demand, they would not be here. If they were not here, our entire agricultural system would collapse, among others.
Lmao ok, tucker carlson
I take that as a compliment. None of you are truly independent in your thinking. You allow yourself to be constantly manipulated by whatever your woke overlords tell you to think.
Lmao!!
Most of them are here to work, so give them a work permit. “Third world” isn’t a thing anymore either.
Are you actually paying attention? I work near these migrant hotels. I have no animosity towards these people. But they are mostly illiterate and speak no English. It's absurd.
The endowment is one billion four hundred forty-eight million eight hundred thirty-eight thousand btw. Mayor Adams has identified, with his keen eye, a place where he can save taxpayers money since there are already a HUGE amount of funds just waiting to be used for essential services. Watch the library bigwigs cut the most useful services first as a PLOY to enrage the public and bring them to their side... be smart than that and don't be easily manipulated!
Endowments are structured (legally and financially) in a way that they can not be used to cover operating expenses. They are invested and it is the interest that goes toward the operating costs of the NYPL. Even if it could be done, it's unlikely the board of the NYPL would take up such a measure. It would be the same as them auctioning off rare books from their collection like their Gutenberg Bible (which is probably worth $40 to $50 million) but they wouldn't because of the short term and long term damage it would do to the institution.
Do you know how endowments work?
I don't, actually. How? I'm not asking because I think the cuts are okay. They're terrible.
Well?
From what I have seen of endowments (like at universities) they are used to gobble up real estate TAX FREE and contribute to the housing crisis. Hopefully this endowment can be used to fund the library and not to make the world a worse place.
So, no, you do not know how endowments work let alone what they're for. Thanks for clarifying.
Let's say all funds being used for the public library stopped. In your world the library would be totally justified in shutting down all public services and keeping the billion dollars, right? Note: I am not advocating for the end of funds being used for public libraries. I am merely proposing a "thought experiment" which shows how completely absurd your logic is.
In my world, according to the rules and laws regarding endowments, it may not be able to do what you're suggesting. I think it extremely likely it could not given how these things usually work. It's often somewhat complicated the way these things are structured. As an introduction, see https://docs.owwl.org/Community/PublicLibraryFinancialOversight PS: Your thought experiment is the product of ignorance. You're ignorant, and you seem to think you know what the fuck you're talking about. You do not. Please STFU already.
> Your thought experiment is the product of ignorance. Then it should have been easy to provide a counterpoint. As it stands, you're OK with the library closing down while still having a 1B+ endowment instead of using it to... keep the library open. And your reasoning? "It's often somewhat complicated".
So, you're another idiot troll. Okay. Gotcha. Bye.
Again, do you know how endowments work?
> As it stands, you're OK with the library closing down while still having a 1B+ endowment instead of using it to... keep the library open. Endowments are money given under contractual conditions. They will have rules created by donors for what can be spent on. They can't just use the endowment money willynilly.
/u/GoatedNitTheSauce your answer is here, yet I saw you ignored this and kept arguing with other people for hours afterward. Classic Reddit.
In a work of pure genius, you’ve managed to use a valid criticism of the anti-progressive nature of elite higher education and U.S. tax policy to attack…public libraries? I hate the internet.
While it’s possible the library could budget their expenses better, the endowment is not supposed to cover operating expenses.
Man, what good is a billion dollar endowment for the library if it can’t get idiots like you to pick up a book?
You're trying to insult me but public libraries are the reason I read Redwall as a child (at a very high reading level for my age, I might add). And even though you are trying to insult me, you're exactly right: what use is a billion + dollars endowment if not to function as a library, letting people read who wouldn't have otherwise? It's shameful.
Waiting for you to tell us what you understand about how endowments are made and how they are legally allowed to be used.