This budget may be balanced, assuming everyone involved votes for it to happen, but the structural problems remain.

Some of those structural problems were addressed in this budget balancing, and now that they've accomplished this objective (they'll all sign on, nobody will dare not to), they'll start working on the rest.

I'm predicting that he'll succeed, and you're predicting he'll fail. The difference between my prediction and yours, is that mine is based on his already successful record, and his overwhelming public support, while yours relies only on your own cynical hope that he fails, with no evidence that will happen.

So far, he's got his shit together better than ANY NYC mayor I can recall in the last 50+ years. I'm betting on THAT guy.