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Bravo: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos laid out a whole lot of home truths about New York City in his CNBC interview Wednesday, exactly the sort of thing more New Yorkers (especially our mayor) need to hear.<\/p>\n

Read more Reality bites yet another of Mamdani\u2019s signature fits of genius<\/a><\/p>\n

His slam of the city Department of Education was epic: \u201cIf we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take six weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Absolutely: City Hall now burns nearly $45 billion a year on the regular public schools, over $43,000 a student \u2014 and as enrollment collapses, it simply spends more per head, without ever showing broad improvement in test scores (except, occasionally, the dumbed-down exams produced by the anti-education State Education Department).<\/p>\n

Note that Bezos is not<\/em> opposed to spending on schools: His family just donated over $100 million for NYC preschools.<\/p>\n

The gift comes via the Jackie Bezos Endowment for Early Childhood, named for the billionaire\u2019s late mother \u2014 who, he noted on MSNOW, was a teen mom in Albuquerque, NM, who with his adoptive dad (an immigrant from Cuba) wound up launching him on his own road to success.<\/p>\n

He pointedly slapped Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s idiotic April 15 \u201cwe\u2019re taxing the rich\u201d video outside the home of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin: \u201cThat piece of it isn\u2019t right, and there was no reason to do that,\u201d since: \u201cGriffin isn\u2019t a villain. He hasn\u2019t hurt anybody. He\u2019s not hurting New York. In fact, quite the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n

How\u2019s that? \u201cThe way you make $1 billion, or $100 million or $10 million or anything, is you create a service that people love, and if millions of people choose your service, you\u2019re going to end up with a billion dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more JPMorgan\u2019s Jamie Dimon has blunt message for \u2018ideologue\u2019 Mamdani: \u2018I don\u2019t care what he says\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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More, Bezos dissed politicians\u2019 \u201ctechnique of picking a villain and pointing fingers,\u201d noting quite rightly that bad government policy creates many problems \u2014 including<\/em> pushing up rents.<\/p>\n

Bezos himself pays \u201cbillions of dollars in taxes,\u201d and making him pay more would solve nothing: \u201cYou could double the taxes I pay, and it\u2019s not going to help that teacher in Queens, I promise you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, it was a fine contrast to the recent timidity of Jamie Dimon and David Solomon, two Wall Street titans who played nice when meeting with the mayor as Mamdani tried to build bridges after his Griffin fiasco.<\/p>\n

Hmm: Unlike those two, Bezos\u2019 business has no huge presence in the city (not after progressives derailed Amazon\u2019s bid to build an East Coast headquarters here).<\/p>\n

Maybe you need to be a (mostly) out-of-town gazillionaire to call out the disease that\u2019s killing this town.<\/p>\n

Read more Owner of day care in viral Nick Shirley video charged as part of $4.6M fraud scheme: prosecutors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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