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JUNE 10 - JUNE 18, 2014

Piccirillo's Beard a Great Idea!
Dyster Should Grow One Too

By Mike Hudson

June 10, 2014


After: Seth Piccirillo grew beard as he advanced socialist ideals.
Before: While he espoused socialism Seth Piccirillo, without his beard, simply did not look the part.

Mass murderer and ardent socialist Che Guevera is a hero to fascist liberals.
Murderer, human rights abuser and enslaver of a nation, Fidel Castro is a liberal’s iconic dream.

A favorite of Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, the youthful Seth Piccirillo, 31, has made quite a splash since becoming director of community development here two years ago.

His championing of public housing, particularly at the former South Junior High School, gained him early notice, as did his plan to force property owners to register with the city for the purpose of penalizing those unable to find tenants in the depressed Niagara Falls real estate market.

But it was his bold initiative to actually beg recent college graduates to take up residence in the city for a couple of years in return for a $3,500 annual stipend that cemented the Piccirillo legend.

That program has thus far attracted just seven lost souls desperate enough that they want to call Niagara Falls home, even for a brief time, even when they’re getting paid for it. This has gone unreported by the many local and national media outlets that trumpeted the program’s launch in 2012.

The fact that all three of his proposals have tanked may be part of the reason Piccirillo has now grown a shaggy beard to hide behind.

Piccirillo’s Vacant Building Registry, which would impose significant fines for owners who have unoccupied buildings, and increased attention from code enforcement officers, goes hand in hand with Piccirillo's support of public housing. Since subsidized housing steals tenants away from private, taxpaying landlords, those landlords can then be fined for having vacant buildings.

In the meantime, politically connected developers, who build not because they want to be landlords - but because they want to make the upfront money for the development, cost taxpayers as much as $400,000 per apartment for subsidized and substandard, poorly constructed housing units.

It is a disgrace, since one could build a mansion for the same amount of money these Piccirillo-endorsed low income projects are being built for and these are anything but mansions.

While struggling local landlords, who put their own money into their buildings, are penalized for not being able to rent their properties, the developers of the taxpayer-funded low income projects, who invest no money of their own, take out millions in taxpayer-funded developer fees.

They are, in effect, being paid to steal tenants away.

And after pirating as many local, low-income people away from taxpaying landlords as possible, they start advertising for out-of-town welfare recipients to come in to fill the units. Once these charity cases relocate here, guess who is stuck with increased county Medicaid and other local subsidy costs?

Clearly, Dyster and his boy, Piccirillo, believe that government is the answer to all our problems, even when those problems are caused by the government itself. They do not believe that money other than that paid directly into the city treasury by those owning business or residential real estate here – casino cash or state aid, for example – constitutes the taxpayers’ money, and think that gives them greater leeway in figuring out how to squander it.

The reality is that City Hall could disappear tomorrow and few would notice the difference. Most city services could be duplicated privately at a fraction of the cost and men and women who wanted to work would have jobs.

The ensuing tax cuts would eliminate the problem of vacant and abandoned buildings -- if no more $400,000-per-taxpayer low-income subsidized apartments were built -- and all that would be left would be to figure out is what to do with those, like Dyster and Piccirillo, who never had the gumption to get a job in the real world outside of government.

Piccirillo’s shaggy beard certainly does lend the appearance of one of the Socialist revolutionaries who haunted Europe around the turn of the last century. Perhaps Dyster, City Planner Tom DeSantis and others in Niagara Falls City government who promote Socialist solutions to problems best addressed by private enterprise should follow his lead and grow some chin whiskers themselves.

That way, the poor saps who pay for everything around here -- the property owners and businessmen who are gouged in order to provide for those who find private sector employment an alien concept – could tell at a glance just who the generational welfare recipients, career bureaucrats and petty politicians were.

And, once identified, those types could be herded down to the Lockport Street train station or better yet, the new $25 million government- subsidized train station on Main St. that few will ever ride and put on a slow freight to nowhere so that the real work of rebuilding Niagara Falls could be left to those unafraid to invest and work.

The ensuing tax cuts would eliminate the problem of vacant and abandoned buildings -- if no more $400,000 per taxpayer low income subsidized apartments were built -- and all that would be left would be to figure out is what to do with those, like Dyster, and Piccirillo, who never had the gumption to get a job in the real world outside of government.

Piccirillo's shaggy beard certainly does lend the appearance of one of the Socialist revolutionaries who haunted Europe around the turn of the last century. Perhaps Dyster, City Planner Tom DeSantis and others in Niagara Falls City government who promote Socialist solutions to problems best addressed by private enterprise should follow his lead and grow some chin whiskers themselves.

That way, the poor saps who pay for everything around here -- the property owners and businessmen who are gouged in order to provide for those who find private sector employment an alien concept – could tell at a glance who the generational welfare recipients, career bureaucrats and petty politicians were.

And, once identified, those types could be herded down to the Lockport Street train station or better yet the new $25 million government subsidized train station on Main St. that few will ever ride and put on a slow freight to nowhere so that the real work of rebuilding Niagara Falls could be left to those unafraid to invest and work.

Josef Stalin, sporting only a mustache, believed in big government. And a government big enough to do everything for you, is big enough to take everything from you!
Karl Marx was proud of his epic beard
Paul Dyster, sporting an elegant mustache, believes in big government. And a government big enough to do everything, is costly enough to bankrupt everyone, as it is doing in this city.

 

 

 

 

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