Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, it is first class. So we sent our big truck there, and we picked it up, and we brought it here and assembled it, and now we have three carts. And these carts will be disassembled and kept in the garage. And the nice thing is that we are now on Sixtieth Street and Eleventh Avenue and the festival is on Fifty-ninth and Fifth. Very easy to get there. (break) These are mostly warehouses, Prabhupāda, this part of the city.
Rāmeśvara: The city of New York is the most mismanaged city in the United States. The city government has a big debt. They borrow money from the banks and they cannot pay it back. So they . . . the banks were closing the debt, the loans, calling for the loan, and they had no money, so they were firing everyone and there was great unemployment, and finally the United States government had to give them a free gift of money to bail them out. It is the worst management of any city in America. (background discussion on where to drive to) One of the big reasons is because of welfare. They give away free money to so many people in New York who don't want to work.
Prabhupāda: Yes, welfare is actually waste of money. But social construction is so bad they have to give welfare. If they take our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we can stop this welfare money, let them pay.
Rāmeśvara: They don't know how to engage all these millions of people.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
(out of car)
Rāmeśvara: They don't know how to engage them, so they just give them free money. Also famous for its labor unions, the most powerful in America. They force the city to pay the highest wages for the garbage men, for school teachers, the highest anywhere in the country. So that's another reason they are in debt so much.
Ādi-keśava: Śrīla Prabhupāda, there's one of our posters for our Ratha-yātrā.
Prabhupāda: Yes. See what they are doing.