Time to license, and insure bicycles. It is essential that bicycles in New York City be required to registered and to have clearly visible license plates and required to have insurance. So many pedestrians are being injured by bicycles, who rarely stay with the person injured, leaving the injured party to suffer and pay for their medical care. It is long over due that all bicycles follow the Vehicle Traffic Safety Law of New York State and follow all rules such as traffic lights, stop signs and more. Perhaps all bicycles should be equipped with a GPS/air tag type device so that the offending bicycle rider can be quickly identified. Anyone guilty of a any vehicle law should be prosecuted and fined, just like automobile drivers are.

Private cars represents freedom A private car allows the owner to travel beyond the city and enjoy the countryside. Further, cars provides for the owner comfort, warmth and safety. In the 1960s and 1970s, most New Yorkers owned cars. Unfortunately since then, there has been a general decline in the standard of living in NYC. Also, many people from third world countries have entered the city, who never had the funds or opportunity to own a car. The result has been that many new New Yorker's say that they do not need a car, since they live in the city! Of course a car is always useful and again, a car represents freedom.

Congestion Pricing. If to reduce traffic congestion was really the purpose of the $9 toll to enter Manhattan below 60th street, the easiest method would be to eliminate the highly under used bicycle lanes and abandon the 25 mile per hour reduced speed limit and go back to the 30 miles per hour limit. Regarding bicycle lanes, on narrow streets, they reduce the roads from two to one lane. In other areas, such as on 8th Avenue and 32 Street, the bike lanes cause traffic jams by reducing the road from 6 lanes to only 3 lanes. The bike lanes are hardly used when the weather is bad. It is doubtful that any New Yorker wants the city to fall to the level of London.

Time to install an electronic limiter to limit the speed of electric powered bicycles and other vehicles Electric bicycles, monopods and quadracycles, such as is now being used by major big box stores, must be equipped with an electronic speed limiter to the average bicycles speed which is 12 miles per hour. Presently electric bicycles, which really are motorcycles since rarely do the rider use the pedals, travel 25 miles per hour or faster. This must come to an end and traffic laws must be enforced. It is a simple matter to add an electronic speed limiter.

New York State Human Powered, motor assisted laws are being vastly abused. The original purpose of a motor ASSIST was to help wheel chair bound people with motorized wheel chairs. The law was changed to assist the many U.S. Veterans who were severely injured and needed assistance to move about. Presently, the law is being abused and essentially electric powered motorcycles, that have hardly used pedals, are skirting the law requiring a license, registration and insurance. Further, recently, some big box on line stores have been flooding New York City streets with delivery trucks that are electric powered and have barely used pedals The law must be changed immediately for the quality of life of all New Yorkers.

Bike lanes are completely under utilized As written before, bicycles are used primarily by men and mostly under the age of 45 years old. Bicycles are almost never used in very cold or rainy weather. Bicycle lanes slow down more important traffic including trucks, ambulances, fire trucks, delivery vehicles and private cars, that often have passengers. Motor vehicles pay for the road through registrations fees, tolls, and gasoline taxes. The use of bicycles also represents a lowering of the standard of living in New York City, when compared to the 1960's and 1970's when there were almost 30% more cars in the city. It is time to reconsider where bicycle lanes are installed and further, reconsider the existence of bicycle lanes in general. As written before, bicycle should be registered, with clearly marked license plates and bicycles should have insurance.

The Purpose of Government
The purpose of a government is to empower, but not to provide. If the government provides everything for the citizen, the citizen becomes essentially a ward of the state and loses freedom and society becomes stagnant. Why work if everything is provided for? Why attempt to improve one's life by branching out and risk losing all of the freebie's? Communism and socialism has never succeeded in any country in the world. It failed in the Soviet Union. It has failed in Cuba and all other socialist countries. China and Vietnam WERE socialist, but ultimately they embraced free market principles. Do not be swayed by any politician trying to seduce you with free rent, food, busses, etc. It is the road to failure and slavery.

Food stamps holds people back Food stamps, also known as EBT and SNAP, was never meant to be a permanent solution, but rather was always meant as a temporary, critical emergency measure to help people truly in need. It has evolved into an entitlement whereby some people feel that they are entitled to be fed by the taxpayers. In the past, people on food stamps were ashamed to admit this. Today, over 40 million people are paid to eat, in the USA. Some estimates are that as much as 20 percent of the population are using and often times, abusing the system. Many of these people do not want to work since they want to continue to receive this free handout.

Quotes on Socialism
Traditionally, taxes are based on profit. Under socialism, taxes are based on envy.
Socialism pushes confiscation through taxation.
Socialism tends to push an anti-merit policy, rather than having the most effective person do the job.

Unsuccessful are jealous of the successful.

Declining birthrate caused by the effects of "feminism", student debt and no-fault divorce The declining birthrate and an aging population, is a major problem in all industrialized countries. Decline in marriage rates caused by declining real income, burdensome student debt and the desire of women to seek a career in business rather than family. Also many marital pleasures are now freely given prior to marriage. Further, men are afraid to get married since divorce is so prevalent and men tend to lose much of their wealth in a divorce. Divorce courts are universally favor women. No fault divorce does not take into consideration such factors as the woman or man cheating. Custody laws favor the women. All of this adds up to discourage men from marrying and easy divorce kills the notion of marriage till death do them part.

New York City has lost its vibrancy. As a result of the money grab "Congestion Pricing", NYC at night is empty, similar to during the Covid histaria. One can only assume that businesses are losing a huge amount of money and that sales tax revenue is down and as an added blow, the value of real estate will also decline. "Congestion Pricing" is killing the city.

Medical Business
Since the recent cold blooded murder of the CEO of United Health, which is the largest private for profit medical insurance company in America, many questions have emerged regarding the medical business. As it turns out, many medical insurance claims are turned down, leaving the patient to pay the bill themselves. The patient may have paid medical insurance for years, thinking that they are protected, only to have their claim denied. According to some published sources, United Health has the highest denial rate in the industry with an estimated 32% of the claims denied. Other private medical insurance companies are not far behind. In the case of "Managed Care" programs, such as Medicare Advantage, many people on Medicare are tempted to sign over their direct Medicare and go with the private insurance companies. With Medicare Advantage, a person must use the insurance company approved doctors and even then, some of the medical procedures must be approved by the medical insurance business. The more procedures turned down, the greater the profits to the medical insurance business. It is time for Congress to reign in the abuses of Medicare Advantage, regardless of the insurance industry campaign donations.

Private ownership is a human instinct You can prove this to yourself by going into any playground and watching young children say such things as "that's my ball". They understand private ownership because it is a human instinct. Everyone wants their own space and their own property. Socialism can never work and has never worked. Socialism and Communism failed in every country that it was pushed in and only were able to keep communism up at the point of the gun. Communism and socialism is anti human nature. Communist countries that continued, such as China, ultimately had to allow private ownership. If people are given everything for free, then there is no incentive to innovate and work hard. After all, what is the purpose of working hard when you can not keep the fruits of your labor. Always oppose socialism.

America is a country built on freedom, independence and self sufficiency Failed countries promise their populations "free " government handouts.

School. Education or Indoctrination? The general view of school is that it educates the young and the not so young. Prior to the "compulsory education", a young student in the 1850's was taught to read, write, mathematics, geography, basic history in just three years and only for about four hours per day. Today, children are stuck in school from 9AM till 3PM and forced to go to school for twelve years. Is that necessary? Further, a student is no longer free, but is required (indoctrinated?) to raise their hand to ask a question or for permission to go to the rest room. All classes are exactly the same length of time, usually 50 minutes. Until a few years ago, students wore uniforms. Essentially students from a young age are indoctrinated with obedience and steered to become good workers and good potential soldiers. Students for the most part are not taught how to critically think and they are not taught how to be independent and they are not taught how to truly prosper and get ahead. Since the introduction of "compulsory education " starting in the 1870's, it would seem that schools, all schools, fall under the category of Indoctrination centers.

Socialism, may sound wonderful, but it rapidly becomes a prison and slows down human growth and advancement. Having traveled extensively throughout the Soviet world, before the Wall fell, I never met a single person who was in favor of socialism. Everyone I met wanted to move to the west. The Christian concept that all people are equal under God is beautiful, but it does not mean that every person will have the same achievements or success in society. Socialism, at very best, provides minimal assistance to people to sustain themselves, but does not encourage advancement. It is human instinct for private ownership and to advance in society. Just go to any playground and watch young children playing with a ball and you will see a child scream out "that is my ball"! People under the yoke of socialism become a ward of the state.

Humor: Enjoying the warm glow of socialism after one year.

Social Media or Vanity Media With the development of the so called smart phone, a new phenomenon of "social media" has developed that caters to the vanity and inner ego of millions read more

Conformist rarely become innovators who creates new ideas or moves society ahead. It is true that a person who conforms to their surroundings, and who adapts fashion, ideas and goals from others rarely moves society ahead since what the conformist does has already been done. Television, school, radio, magazines and the internet creates conformists, not innovators. One must learn to think on their own and overcome the fear of failure or lack of acceptance.

Organ Donation In 1969, with the first heart transplant by South African doctor Christian Bernard, medical associations worldwide redefined the definition of death by concocting the notion of "brain dead". This was based on concepts of brain wave detection and a few other, rather weak concepts. However, many so called "brain dead" people have woken up, after a period of inactivity. This is particularly the case where some people in a state of Coma, have awake years after going into that state. Further, it is possible that a so called "brain dead" person who is having their organs removed, to experience extreme pain. Perhaps it is not time to rethink and ban the highly lucrative medical industry of organ transplants.

New York City is not ready for congestion pricing. The sensors that bill vehicles, are only at the entrance points in Manhattan and thus can only bill incoming cars, not cars already in Manhattan. Thus, presently, only outsiders will be billed for tolls. New York City is ONE CITY, consisting of Manhattan (Borough of New York), Brooklyn (Kings), Queens, Staten Island (Richmond) and the Bronx. Shouldn't every New Yorker have free access to all parts of the city? Didn't the unification of Brooklyn with Manhattan in 1897 specify this as being one city?