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the UK's freshest streaming service. So the Census Bureau of the United States spits out data all over the place and I track the data about New York City and New York State for you because you can't do it yourself. I can do it.

So I got some interesting stats to talk to you about.

Between April 2020, the start of COVID, okay? Was it 20 that COVID started? No, I'm sorry. Between April 2020 and July of 2022, COVID's in the middle of that.

New York City's population dropped from 8.8 million to 8.3 million, almost 500,000, half a million, NYC residents have left the building just like Elvis.

Okay? That's 5.3% of the city's total population. That's over a two-year

period. Now it's not the worst in the country.

San Francisco is the worst.

San Francisco lost 8% of its residents same period of time.

Now, if you're losing 500,000 tax paying residents and most of them are, then you have a disaster on your hands.

You would think that there would be a course correction in New York State and City as far as the politicians that govern us are concerned.

They are getting worse.

This congestion pricing thing that kicks in in 2024, this is going to be an unbelievable

disaster. It is going to hurt every aspect of the New York City economy.

Everything.

Where do you hear the screams and outcries on this?

New York City is... screams and out cries on this.

New York City is freezing, hiring for the cops to pay for the migrants.

So already the quality of life and crime in New York City is a horrendous problem.

Now we're not going to get any more police because they got to pay migrant expenses.

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