#Bill de Blasio admits he has no real plan to turn NYC around

Mayor Bill de Blasio confessed his utter incompetence this week in interviews with local media, admitting he has no plan to deal with the city’s mounting fiscal nightmare, surging violent crime or anything else — except to hope for a safe vaccine and a bottomless federal bailout.

When NY1’s Errol Louis asked what he planned to do about murders (up 37 percent) and shootings (up 94 percent), the mayor simply recited his usual litany of excuses: “global pandemic,” “perfect storm of negative factors,” yadda yadda. But if Joe Biden wins, “we get a major stimulus,” and “that’s going to turn things around.”

Huh? How will a bailout reverse the crime spike? He’s surely not going to reverse his NYPD cuts. Nor does a one-time bailout do a thing about the existential challenge to the city’s business model: Even with a vaccine, lots of folks no longer see New York as safe. A real mayor would start dealing with such problems on his own.

Louis seemed stunned: “Surely you’re not saying to the people of New York, ‘Hey, murders … and shootings are all going to get worse for the next year’?”

“No,” replied de Blasio — before affirming just that: “I think you’re going to see by the summer … a very, very different reality in the city, if Joe Biden is elected.”

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, meanwhile, flagged de Blasio’s fiscal fecklessness. The mayor, he noted in a new report, wants to borrow as much as $5 billion to pay the daily bills, “a practice that helped lead to the 1970s fiscal crisis.”

The city’s projection of a “sharp rebound in revenue” also looks quite rosy, he warned, saying Blas needs a real plan before borrowing and putting the city’s future at risk.

Silly DiNapoli. Doesn’t he know Biden will solve all of New York’s problems? … Next year? … Maybe? … We hope?