The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York

the Village Voice ^ | Aug 25, 2004 | Wayne Barrett

[Logic n' Reason]

Hillary Clinton was elected because her Republican opponent dropped out weeks before the election. If he runs against her in '06, she will lose in a landslide.

While your reasoning for your Jr. Senator's victory is suspect, to say the least, we'll all wait for your predicted "landside" in '06.

Then we'll be more than happy to attend to your griping.

[Faraday]

I won't be satisfied until I see an article titled, "The 100 Ways Bush Screwed New York."

[JoeGar]

There are actually 5,879 fewer city cops than in 2000, partly due to the nearly 90 percent Bush cuts in Bill Clinton's COPS programs.

Tell me again why I, not a New Yorker, should pay for NY police. Obviously, New Yorkers don't want more police on their payroll.

[concerned about politics]

So I decided to get my talons into the maggots early today.

LOL. Ya done good!

Have a fun day, Gramps. I'll watch the fort. LOL.

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks! I will be out of here soon!

[Fee]

When the GOP controls the White House, it would help NY to vote in two GOP Senators. It is much easier for two GOP Senators to ask for a favor from the White House than two Democrat Senators who in the past lambasted GWB. If you can understand how things work on the Sopranos, this should not be hard for NYers to understand the next time they vote for a Senator.

[DocH]

ANYBODY that quotes left-wing, bed-wetting, kool-aid drinking, demoRAT water-carrying, anti-freedom maggot Congressman WIENER from The Peoples Republic of New York City is NOT to be listened to or believed, PERIOD.

[Scourge of God]

Really, every one of this article's points is a real stretch.

Nothing to see here folks, move along...

Scourge

[not2worry]

Could not agree with you more Dave.

I wouldn't even use that rag to replace my Sear Catalog at my "second" home in the woods.

[presidio9]

Obviously you did not read my response to the author if you feel that I'm griping. And Guiliani would have beat Clinton in 2000 and he's more popular now. Like just about everywhere else, there is a percentage of idiots who like Clinton and a larger percentage who can't stand her. The problem was that Rick Lazio was not prepared to run for Senate at that time.

[not2worry]

I think Mayor Blumberg still has some Democratic brain cells left in his right lobe.

I agree, NYC's finest and their brothers, the fire fighters should have gotten a raise three years ago.

[Grampa Dave]

You might get a terminal infection if you used the VV at your second home in the woods.

[GSWarrior]

This could have all been avoided if we had simply elected Wayne Barrett as president.

[goodnesswins]

The FIRST thing which should be funded by government is fire/police/security protection....that IS WHAT government is for....unfortunately, liberals have hijacked money away from them for their pet projects (i.e. midnight basketball, diversity training, etc.) and then DEMAND MORE money....you get whatever YOU elect in your own geographic location....AND, as someone else said, NY got LOTS of funding from everywhere.....the question is "how was that funding used?"

[Bushbacker]

HHey, even if Bush paraded up Fifth Avenue with Osama bin Laden's head on a flagpole, New
Yorkers would still vote overwhelmingly for Kerry.

New York City, for all its virtues as a cultural and financial center, and as a tourist destination, is still the Capital of Kneejerk Leftism.

[WOSG]

I didnt even read the whole diatribe, but on #1, we have a few data points:

2/3rds of Al Qaeda leadership taken out.

We have the 9/11 mastermind "Khalid Sheik Muhammed, in custody and the other plotter - name of Busmillah (sp?). And a mere 500 or so other al qaeda types.

So he is simply WRONG.

[Elsie]

These Socialists just - don't - get it!!!

Of COURSE we are cutting back on your 'subsidies' and gifts. We 'victims' of institutionalised theft are getting fed UP!!!!!!!

[Squantos]

We all called it when Bubbafucco put a 100K Cops on the payroll and then expected the cities to pick up the next years bill for their services. Clintonistas knew exactly what they were doing as the paychecks they wrote bounced and the individual cities had to lay off the extra cops while slick was getting serviced in the oval office.

Now it's GW's fault......

For the want of a few snub nosed revolvers in the cockpits or hands of some of the passengers 9-11 would be just the day before 9-12.

Had GW really been knowledgeable of the hijacks and had shot down the "commercial airliners" then these same whiners would have wanted his head on a stick for killing innocents as everybody else could have done it better or "the right way"........... These sorts wouldn't be happy in ya hung em with a new rope. Let em bitch and snivel.....keeps em busy and out of the way .

Stay safe !

[EQAndyBuzz]

"There are actually 5,879 fewer city cops than in 2000, partly due to the nearly 90 percent Bush cuts in Bill Clinton's COPS programs. Even with the post-9-11 invention of homeland security funding, NYC is getting $61 million less in federal public-safety subsidies than it did before our cops became America's front line. Bush's 2005 budget proposes even more cuts. Though most conventioneers would prefer to forget it, George W. Bush has slashed the troop strength that host committee hero Rudy Giuliani put on duty."

I read the first paragraph and after taking a moment to stop laughing, I decided to answer.

Crime is down by over 40% in NY over the last four years. Times Square has been cleaned up and the city is once again flourishing after the tragic events of 9/11.

The cops are whining about how they need a raise. Sure, give them a raise. In exchange, the police should sit down with the city and suggest where it should make cuts in order for the cops to get a raise.

Clinton bloated the municipalities unions and expected the rest of the country to pay for it. If the city cannot afford it then they shouldn't have it. I will tell you how police can earn more money and save the city money in the process:

1. Give every cop a 25% pay raise starting on Monday.
2. On Monday the police will fund their own 401k.
3. The police will pay their own health insurance.
4. The police will have 1 month vacation, 5 sick days and 2 personal days.
5. There will be no carrying over of sick or vacation time. Use it or lose it.
6. If a police officer does well and hits his tests, promote him with pay. If he doesn't, fire him. Mediocrity cannot live in the police force. Leads to cops going bad due to lack of incentive.

This should be good enough for any muni union.