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Bravo: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos laid out a whole lot of home truths about New York City in his CNBC interview Wednesday, exactly the sort of thing more New Yorkers (especially our mayor) need to hear.

His slam of the city Department of Education was epic: “If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take six weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it.”

Absolutely: City Hall now burns nearly $45 billion a year on the regular public schools, over $43,000 a student — and as enrollment collapses, it simply spends more per head, without ever showing broad improvement in test scores (except, occasionally, the dumbed-down exams produced by the anti-education State Education Department).

Note that Bezos is not opposed to........

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