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Foreign hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. We'll see today if New Yorkers want to save themselves from certain doom. The chapters written in our immediate geographical and global history on socialism and communism, they don't end well. We do not have a rosy history with redistribution. It often turns violent, deadly genocidal. It always leads to economic ruin, which of course only accelerates early death and economic and emotional immobility. That sounds pretty awful because it is. But there is something about socialism that is intoxicating. So people who push socialism, and I'm being very gracious, gracious by using that word and not the C word, either of them, they are drug dealers. They are pushing the idea that someone else has taken your stuff. Stuff. Those people have to be punished and what they have taken from you has to be redistributed back to you. That didn't happen and it never happens. So if you think of economics as zero sum, and John Stossel always did this so well and he said that structuralists, meaning the communists or socialists, the redistributionists, they think of prosperity, growth, economics, they don't think in terms of growth. They think of it. It's zero sum. There's. There's just one pie. There's one pie and the billionaires take the biggest. They take 99% of the pie and the rest of Everybody else, the 99%. They're left with one piece of pie and no one can exist on that. That is a falsehood. It's an attractive falsehood because if you feel like you're working hard and you're not getting anywhere, the idea that someone else has slowed down your treadmill and it's not your fault, it's not because of anything that you've done, it's because of greedy people that becomes very, very intoxicating. John Stossel said. Well, Adam Smith disproved that. It's not one giant pie, it is a bunch of pies. So actually, capitalism is a pie factory where the more growth, the more innovation we have, the more pies can be made. And part of pie making comes down to hard work. It comes down to creativity. It comes down to where hard work and opportunity meet. Some people call that luck. But the point is, even if you start out with nothing, you can still make something you in this world. But of course, that does require hard work, which is not as intoxicating as getting a bunch of free stuff. Zorhan Mamdani, who has no experience and whose political view on life is dubious at best, he wants to Run New York City, dot, dot, dot into the ground. Because he is a structuralist. He is an unashamed democratic socialist. You can take out the democratic part and you can just replace it with socialism as many people have. He doesn't mind that at all. He thinks he is going to take from the rich and give it to the poor. That has not worked. It will not work. That is a zero sum worldview that is empty. It's, it's high on promises, has a very, very low yield. But that's what he is offering New York City. People who live here find it very difficult to afford life in New York. More so now than 10 years ago or 20 years ago or even 33 years ago when I first moved to Gotham. So what aspects of New York are the least affordable? Housing, health care, which is pretty much true for everyone. Education and food. So with housing that is where you have a lot of government interference. When you sign a lease in New York City, the thing is probably 35 pages long. And so much of that is bureaucracy and rules that dictate how much you can pay, how you can sublet whether or not your home is rent stabilized as it is for Zorhan Mamdani who is the son of multimillionaires who have homes in various countries in different locations. His dad makes $300,000 a year as a professor at Columbia and lives in university housing, so doesn't have to pay for housing at all. Zorhan and his wife live in a rent stabilized apartment. So Zorhan mom, Donnie wants to come into New York City and, and stabilize all the rents. So what happens if you get a rent stabilized place? You are never going to leave. So if you're not going to leave, that means that there are not going to be any vacancies. So if there are no vacancies, what happens? There is no immobility. That's what happens when you stabilize the rents. It is an unnatural force imposed on the market. On the market in addition to the bureaucracy and the rules that already exist in the biggest city in the country. And it sucks. It doesn't suck because it's expensive. Because of the robber baron corporate landlords. They can be jerks themselves. It sucks because it is unnatural. And there is no free market because if there were, there would be incentive for people to offer less expensive housing. They are forced to offer Section 8 housing to lower income people. Therefore that gobbles up some of the inventory that might be offered to hardworking middle class people who cannot afford to live in places because the rest of the units in those buildings, they jack up the prices in order to make their own mortgages. So then you have free groceries now. And the most obvious place to point is Kansas City, Missouri, where they tried the subsidized grocery store, which had to close because of crime, shoplifting and lack of inventory. Because when something is cheaper, everybody else is going to get it. And it is cheaper because the only thing that these government run grocery stores are allowed to price their food at is what the government says. So that's price fixing. So they can never make a profit. And grocery stores don't make a big profit. Door on Momdani is running around saying that there is like $140 million subsidy that is given to corporate grocery stores. That is not true. They do not get subsidized to that level from the government. They will be run out of business by the government if there are these government run grocery stores. And he is saying there is a need for that because we are in a food desert. We are not in a food desert. In fact, New York City is number one in the country in terms of accessibility to grocery stores and food. It is so plentiful, it is an embarrassment of riches. And so the idea that you're going to come into each of the five boroughs with $60 million and have all of these city run grocery stores, and that is going to have a positive effect, it will have a negative effect because you will have to raise taxes. So that goes to the other weakness in his argument. Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy saves the world. Right after this, it's Will Kane Country. Watch it live at noon Eastern Monday through Thursday@foxnews.com or on the Fox News YouTube channel. And don't miss the show. Listen and follow the podcast five days a week at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you download your favorite podcasts. So he's saying that rich people don't pay enough in taxes. That is also a falsehood. If you talk to anyone who is making over a million dollars in this city, you know, you know, by and large they're not living in poverty, but they're certainly not living in luxury because over half of their income is taken away from them by the federal government, by the state government and by the city government with, you know, the highest taxes in the nation. That will be even higher once mom Donnie gets his tax plan through. And that is an if. So. So if you're having your money taken from you by the government and you can move somewhere else, that has A lower corporate tax rate that has no state income tax. Why would you stay? And that's what Zorhan Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren and all the redistributionists are banking on, that there is nowhere else for rich people to go. And if you look at states surrounding New York, every family has done a deep dive into schools and businesses and housing, and they have done the cost benefit analysis. If they can leave, they will leave. A massive number of people will leave New York City. There will be an exodus, rich people will flee. Because if you have worked very hard to create a business and a nest egg and some security, and that is the American dream, and every single person has that right to try and turn their ideas, their creativity, their hard work, merge it with opportunity and develop it into something successful that they can then have more freedom to do whatever they wish with that money. That is the American dream. That should not be demonized. That is what people will do. That is human nature. That is not a bad thing. And that's what will happen when he gets elected. Because people will not want to have more of their money taken from them to provide free buses in a city of multimillionaires, a city of hardworking people, rich, poor and all the in betweeners. They ride the buses, they ride the subways. When all that stuff is free, they will become more dangerous because people like Zorhan Momdani will assume that buses will become roving daycare centers for mentally ill, drug addicted people who will never receive proper care from the government. Because as big as these socialists are on promises, they deliver so little to the people who desperately need more from them than lip service. When people like AOC are running around going, the homeless are just sleeping, they're just tired. And people deserve to rest wherever they want to. It's like, no, there are people who are very, very sick, very, very unwell, who are covered in scabs, who are wearing paper garments from psych wards, who are pooping on subway trains, on sidewalks and shooting up and doing God knows what else, and they need help. They don't need a nap. But that's what socialism offers them. And eventually you will run out of money very quickly to fund things like that that won't even reach the people it was intended for. So if you're not helping the people who are most in need, what happens to them? Well, there is a proliferation of people like that and they start to outnumber the hardworking people who deserve to live in safety, who deserve to reap the fruits of their hard work and their labor. But instead, those people will be overtaxed. They will be demonized, and they will be invited to leave the city, and that's what'll happen. And it's gonna suck. My hope is today that New Yorkers are more rational, that they vote against Mamdani, because I realize that the choices we have between Curtis Lewis, Andrew Cuomo, and Zoran Mamdani are awful. It's like having your arm caught in a meat grinder, and you pull out this bloody stump, and, you know, with Curtis Lewa, he'll say, yeah, just let my cats lick it and wrap it in plastic. Yeah. Cat saliva is a natural antimicrobial. The arm will heal eventually. Well, that's a bad plan for Cuomo. It's like, yeah, it's gonna take a lot of surgery. It's gonna be incredibly painful. The rehab's gonna be a few years. You won't have very good use of it. It's like, well, that's not a good option either, Mom Donnie, it's like, let's chop it off. Let's take a hatchet and cut your arm off. You don't need that arm. The government will tell you what you need. And you don't need that arm because you've got another one. That's two arms. That's one too many. We're cutting off this arm. That's what Mom Donnie is going to do to the arm of New York that has been caught in a meat grinder. We are in a very, very bad position. And I do not like Andrew Cuomo. I think that he is an awful person. I think that this whole thing has been an exercise in humiliation for him. But Zorhan Mamdani is an absolute disaster on every single level. And for people who have bought into his empty promises and they're gobbling up the skittles of his sugar high, well, you are in for an unfortunate crash. And I'm one of those people, you know, I live and work in New York City. If he's elected, I sure don't want to. Hopefully, I have a choice, because people who vote in New York have a choice. And I have a feeling the polling is closer than we think. And, you know, I think at the end of the day, the Sliwa people and the little red beret, it's going to ring hollow, and that's just fine. Do not. Do not come. Do not come to the polling place and vote for Mom. Donnie. Do whatever you want. But, you know, when all that I've laid out for you and everyone else who is fighting for freedom and fighting, fighting against socialism when that comes to fruition about it. Yeah, you guys like to say elections have consequences. These consequences are going to suck a bag of rancid nards. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. I'm Kennedy. Listen ad free With a Fox News Podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts and Amazon prime, members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon Music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast Network.