Mayor Bloomberg has many failed ideas and plans. The West Side Football Stadium, congestion pricing, re-building the World Trade Center site and Yankee Stadium.
He was not able to get either the West Side Football Stadium or congestion pricing plans passed because they made no sense. In both cases it would not have done anything to help the economic issues but would have in fact made it harder for middle class families. His congestion pricing plan included having people who lived in Manhattan having to pay to come back into Manhattan. The cost to the individual would have been too great. Small businesses would have been hurt because they wouldn't be able to get merchandise when they needed it. The football stadium would have caused what he wanted to get rid of with congestion pricing and that is more traffic in the city. The 2 plans were contradictions of one another.
The Mayor is not totally at fault with the World Trade Center fiasco but he has to take blame because he doesn't speak out on the matter enough. Right now it looks like Bin Laden won if you go by the area. For an industrialized city we should be able to have been at least half way with rebuilding rather than having nothing done at this point. The Mayor and all involved owe something to those who died at the site and their families because they are the leaders of New York City. They have let us all down.
The Mayor lets his arrogance get the best of himself. He doesn't try to work out deals with anyone to get bills passed as he believes in the policy of his way or the highway. An example of this would be his firing of 2 members of the Panel for Education Policy simply because they disagreed with him.
The Mayor always seems to fail with his ideas and policies. We need someone with vision who is open minded to caring about the middle class.
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