Rob Luna

what's going on with New York right now because my grandfather came from Ellis Island through Italy and helped build that city brick by brick.

Didn't speak any English at first, learned how to speak English, would never speak to us in anything other than English during that period of time, worked seven days a week,

He was a bricklayer, wound up creating his own business, bought a home.

He did all these things without having any college education, without speaking English.

But he understood that nothing was going to happen for him.

Nothing was going to be handed to him unless he did it himself.

And when you think about all these policies

why I don't like the 50 year mortgage, why I don't like all these band-aids that we keep putting on things, that is softening America.

The American dream is people and intuition and motivation and understanding that you are responsible for yourself.

So the further you take that away from people, everybody gets a trophy.

That's going to deteriorate.

And that's why we talk about New York.

Everyone says, oh, it's going to come back, invest in it.

It's not coming back.

It's not coming back because the people that built that city live in Florida now and Texas and Tennessee.

New York is in buildings.

They're not living here, are they?

But think about it.

The reason it always came back is because the people made it come back.

After 9-11, the people made it come back.