No punishment for criminals. We all know it. I do it every day here. No punishment. If you are a shoplifter, you can go in and wipe out a store and nothing's going to happen to you. You can punch somebody in the face. Nothing will happen to you, unless the person sues you civilly. But usually you get punched in the face and the guy runs away. Pickpockets, I mean, you name it. Anything with a, designated as petty crime, they can just do it with impunity. Okay, nobody's going to chase them. Nobody's going to punish them.
Well, if you have a society like that, you don't want to live there. Who wants to live there? That's anarchy. All right. Then there's drugs and pot. In New York City, it's ridiculous. It's absurd. Every street you're smelling, you know, marijuana. There's drug addicts all over the place, they're injecting themselves with drugs, they're staggering around. They're in the subways, sleeping day and night. This is quality of life. And in L.A and San Francisco, you know what's going on, if you live out there, it's insane. Chicago too. Why do you want to live in these places? Why do you want your children to see that? And talking about children, in Chicago in 55 public schools, in 55, not one student made grade level expectations in math or reading. Last year in the school year. Not one in 55. In Illinois, the state, there are 622 schools where 10% of the kids are reading proficiently. That's out of 649. So it's a disaster. And New York City is a disaster. L.A. is a disaster. So you send your kid to public school, I don't know anybody right now who sends their kids to public school on Long Island, even though the school districts here are good, basically good, most people I know got their kids in private school because of quality of life. Okay, they don't want the kid to hear MF-er word 30 times a day. And that's what you got in public schools, no matter how good the academics are.
Okay. Add to that, if that weren't enough, what I just gave you, why people are fleeing these progressive states. You've got trans kids in sports. How insane is that? This is part of the woke culture. --Bill O'Reilly