[Tacis]

Nice analysis. But, how can you talk about the decline and destruction of New York City without mentioning the unions? The teachers' unions are responsible for the failure of the educational system. The state legislature is afraid of them. Even the cops and firemen have powerful unions. The unions have taken over the work at the WTC. I'll bet that some of them are making close to $1000 a day and probably making differentials on top. The dems owe these guys and NYC will sink like a rock.

[ken5050]

The municipal unions problem as it relates to NYC's survival is a given...sorry I neglected the obvious....the cops and fireman deserve big raises...but going back under Wagner all the city uniformedunions got pay parity..that means a garbageman makes the same as a cop...and all the unions always get about the same % increases.....What's really pathetic about the teachers is that about half of them should be fired....yet now we;re gonna give them ALL 30% raises.....