Posted on 10/09/2011 7:46:18 AM PDT by tobyhill
The New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has accused the Occupy Wall Street protesters of trying to destroy jobs in the city.
In his weekly radio show, Bloomberg said the protests against the city's financial services were "not productive" given the importance of the sector to the local economy.
"What they're trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city," he said.
"If the jobs they are trying to get rid of in this city – the people that work in finance, which is a big part of our economy – go away, we're not going to have any money to pay our municipal employees or clean our parks or anything else."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Mikey buddy.. They don’t think that far ahead. Fogetaboutit.
bloomberg connection to Zuccotti Park+
Occupy Wallstreet? IS wall street! Effing idiots! http://tinyurl.com/3m6us7n .
An interesting phrase. But, what does it really mean?
IMHO it translates as “I will not get reelected if I can not pay the salaries of the city's municipal employees.”
I read on these pages shortly I started commenting that the untold secret of large governments is the elected leaders that are supposed to be responsible to the electorate (aka tax payers) are almost immediately co-opted by the “people working for them”. The politician, either temporary or professional, learns he must first placate the workers below him if he wants to accomplish anything. “Anything” is defined as everything from reelection to significant reforms.
We have seen this in Washington DC, it has been openly admitted to in New York City, and its true where I live in NW Florida.
Someone should tell the Mayor to verify the documentation of paid demonstrators as well as the contributing sponsors. NYC needs all the tax-revenue it can get!
So DO something about it you incompetent, nanny-state hypochondriac! This is the blizzard all over again!
Hey Michael, there is something you can do... don’t these kinds of things require a permit? can’t you arrest people for disturbing the peace? You certainly would if these were Christians protesting abortion, or people protesting the building of a Mosque at ground zero... have you no testicular fortitude? You’re a small, small man sir, if you allow this unchallenged. You have a city to look after, peoples’ jobs are on the line. This group is defecating all over you. Hell dude, make a curfew, call out the national guard. Sure people have a right to protest, but no one has the right to infringe on other peoples’ rights to pursue their daily lives, no one. If you’re a real leader and executive of the “greatest” city on earth, dooo something! Sheesh!!
Billionaire Mikey should go stick his butt in the air and pray to his Victory Mosque god.
I don’t think it was a great idea for bigot Mikey to ban the Judeo-Christian God from the 911 remberance services. There are things broken in this society that money can’t fix. But Mikey doesn’t know this. It is all materialism and politically correct propaganda to him.
If he can’t appeal to the mob’s love of money (”You are hurting the ECONOMY!”), he has no more to offer.
Mr. Mayor, didn’t you basically predict this just a month ago? And in so predicting, didn’t you basically invite this?
Quoting an old philosopher: “Chickens coming home to roost!”
For Tea Partiers and any other group, yes, but not for these malcontent whiners. In loony Portland, they've been camped out since Thursday without a permit. They also marched on Thursday with no permit.,
The Portland Marathon is on today, and the protestors are graciously temporarily moving from the park where they're squatting so that the marathoners can have access, but they're planning to return after the last marathoner goes through the area.
The pedophile mayor of Portland gave them support the other day, but he's been strangely silent ever since.
(Just Lazy Communist Slugs) takes one to know one.
Company that owns Zuccotti "Protester" Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!
From same link in post #16
BECAUSE HIS LONG TIME LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND IS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!!!..
Yes that’s correct...NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s long time lady Diana L. Taylor is on the board of directors for Brookfeild Properties...
Hat tip to thouworm. The plot thickens, doesn’t it? The little Emperor really wants that cabinet position, doesn’t he? Heaven help the U.S. if (a) Obama gets a second term (don’t even wanna THINK about that horror!) and (b) he appoints the Destructor-of-Lives in Chief in a cabinet position. The little twerp bought his illegal third term as Mayor of NYC and he’s trying to buy himself a cabinet position.
BTW, don’t forget his heavy lobbying to get gay marriage legalized in NY, to get the Ground Zero mosque built, etc. And gee, he just happened to have opened a branch of his business in Dubai—what a coincidence with his support for the mosque.
Everybody’s a liberal, until liberalism shows up in their backyard.
Bloomberg the democrat is as responsible for this crap as any other democrat.
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