A new “fact check” is now attached to a viral meme on Facebook and Instagram that points out differences between Florida and New York, especially the fiscal nightmare of New York, except the “fact-check” is by a liberally biased “fact-checking” website, PolitiFact, which focuses entirely on attacking Conservative posts.
The website is known for making incorrect “fact-checks” (they once were forced to admit they were wrong after Candace Owens called them out on a false “fact-check”; https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/11/candace-owens-takes-on-facebook-fact-checker-politfact-and-wins/), but it rarely corrects them. The website is dishonest and not qualified to serve as a trusted “fact-checking” website...
“9 Reasons Why PolitiFact Is Unqualified to Label ‘Fake News’”
By Jerome Hudson (https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2016/12/15/9-reasons-politifact-unqualified-label-fake-news/).
The “fact-check” attached to the meme above does not point out the fact that the liberal state of New York is known for wasteful spending compared to Florida. Florida ranks 4th among all the U.S. states for fiscal health. New York ranks 41. California is next on the list ranking at 42 (Source: Mercatus Center | George Mason University).
24/7 Wall St. reported last year that “since 2015, Florida’s GDP climbed 15.0%, faster than all but half a dozen states and the comparable 9.8% national GDP growth” while in New York the poverty rate is high and the unemployment rate is the 3rd highest in the country. It had a “low annualized GDP growth from 2015 to 2020, at roughly half of the 1.9% U.S. rate” (ibid.).
Then there is the wasteful spending in Medicaid in New York that the governor allows to be abused without reform. The New York Post reported last September that “the comptroller of New York has identified hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful spending as part of the state's Medicaid program” (https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/washington-has-no-need-to-fund-new-yorks-wasteful-ways/).
The debt between Florida and New York is incomparable. It is laughable for Politifact to downplay the differences.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Florida had a debt of $33,315,277,000 in fiscal year 2015. New York had a debt of $137,369,089,000 in fiscal year 2015.
As of 2021, New York is ranked #1 among states with the most debt. Florida ranks #2 among states with the LEAST debt (https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/debt-by-state).
New York is ranked 5th in the top ten of states with high debt per capita whereas Florida is ranked at 46. (ibid.).
New York is not a livable state. People have been leaving the state in droves and at a faster rate than any other state in the country (https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/01/01/people-leaving-new-york/).
“The cost of living in New York — the high taxes, regulations and housing costs — are making it untenable to live the American dream here,” Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli told the New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/new-york-is-losing-residents-at-an-alarming-rate-report/).
But Politifact, of course, conveniently excluded these important facts from their biased “fact-check”. They are too busy working to appease the political mindset of moon-bat big tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg.
I do not see how anyone can take these “fact-checkers” like Politifact seriously especially after Project Veritas posted leaked videos showing the CEO they ususlly “fact-check” for, Mark Zuckerberg, admitting to engaging in leftwing bias and working to advance Joe Biden’s agenda while on social networking sites false claims are made that these “fact-checkers” are “independent” and without bias which is far from the truth.
