Mayor Bloomberg has come up with a plan to make cross town buses free. This is very odd. If the MTA is in such trouble financially and has no money how can this be done? Suddenly there is money? Not everyone comes from the train as the Mayor suggests and that would cost the MTA more money.
The Mayor is talking about doing this in Manhattan. Why not the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens? Are they invisible? People get off the train to finish their trips on the bus in the other boroughs.
This is a plan that will only help a few people in Manhattan if it does get approved which I find unlikely.
This plan is like offering someone snow in the winter.
If the Mayor wants to help people save money why doesn't he abolish the raise in the sales tax? The rise in sales tax affects far more people.
This is nothing more than a ploy to get the Mayor in the papers and on the news and make like he is such a good guy but this idea is disingenuous.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Mayor Gives All His Buddies Raises Leaving Everyone Else Out in the Cold
The Mayor does in the poor and middle class every chance he gets and he does it without fan fare from the press which allows his Kingdom to lie to the public with ads and commercials that are truly fictitious.
On Friday it was announced that the Mayor had given raises totalling 69 million over 2 years. This would seem like a good thing but those raises were given to 6,692 of his managers and non union employees. Among the people getting raises were Police Commissioner Kelly going from $189,700 a year to $212,947 a year. Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris received a raise of $18, 541 to bring her yearly salary to $245,760. Other people who got raises of more than $15,000 are the Taxi Commissioner and the Mayor's Press Secretary.
By announcing on Friday the press basically ignored it on Saturday a slow news day. It has not bothered to pick up the issue.
City workers who are not associated with the Mayor lose their jobs while transit fares, rents and taxes are either going up or gone up. Money for police is lacking and quality of life crimes are up but yet the Mayor finds money for his cronies and buddies for raises when the poor and middle class of New York continue to struggle. Let us not forget that unemployement in New York is over 9%.
The Mayor needs to be investigated but the press is falling down on its job to do so.
William Thompson got the endorsement this past week of the Working Families Party. He must defend those families and start pounding at the Mayor on these issues to bring the truth out about a corrupt administration run by Mayor Bloomberg.
On Friday it was announced that the Mayor had given raises totalling 69 million over 2 years. This would seem like a good thing but those raises were given to 6,692 of his managers and non union employees. Among the people getting raises were Police Commissioner Kelly going from $189,700 a year to $212,947 a year. Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris received a raise of $18, 541 to bring her yearly salary to $245,760. Other people who got raises of more than $15,000 are the Taxi Commissioner and the Mayor's Press Secretary.
By announcing on Friday the press basically ignored it on Saturday a slow news day. It has not bothered to pick up the issue.
City workers who are not associated with the Mayor lose their jobs while transit fares, rents and taxes are either going up or gone up. Money for police is lacking and quality of life crimes are up but yet the Mayor finds money for his cronies and buddies for raises when the poor and middle class of New York continue to struggle. Let us not forget that unemployement in New York is over 9%.
The Mayor needs to be investigated but the press is falling down on its job to do so.
William Thompson got the endorsement this past week of the Working Families Party. He must defend those families and start pounding at the Mayor on these issues to bring the truth out about a corrupt administration run by Mayor Bloomberg.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The Mayor Has Failed
It has recently been suggested to me that the way to defeat Mayor Bloomberg is by attacking him over term limits.
I think this is a mistake and will come to haunt anyone who tries this tactic. The people of NYC are looking for a city where employment is up and safety on our streets is assured. We want a city where we can afford the culture we are lucky to be living in. We want a city where our children learn rather than just pass tests for political gain. We want a city to be proud of with a new World Trade Center rather than a city where every attempt by the Mayor to start a new project fails because of arrogance or disdain for the people living in the neighborhoods. We want a city where housing and not baseball stadiums are the priority.
Under the Bloomberg administration rents have soared and have not gotten better at any point during his administration. Tenants can't afford these rents and small landlords can't afford to maintain the buildings. For a Mayor that knows so much about the economy he has totally failed on this issue. If you own a co-op or a house in NYC during the Bloomberg administration you will have seen your property value has gone down rather than up. If Mayor Bloomberg is such a great economist how did he not know that the economy of NYC was in such dire shape? He has failed and the citizens of NYC have suffered because of it.
The World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001 and yet nothing has been done. Every project in NYC that the Mayor has touched is a failure and he refuses to take blame.
The Mayor took credit for crime being down in our schools but the following day it was reported that more student on student violence was up. The Mayor has ignored this issue. He has also ignored the fact that our students can't pass college entrance exams with his methods.
Go on the train early in the morning and you will find homeless people living in the cars. The Mayor does nothing.
The Mayor has failed at his job and must be removed for this reason. Either William Thompson or Tony Avella must show that Bloomberg has failed at his job and that people in NYC are suffering financially. They must begin now because Mayor Bloomberg has failed.
I think this is a mistake and will come to haunt anyone who tries this tactic. The people of NYC are looking for a city where employment is up and safety on our streets is assured. We want a city where we can afford the culture we are lucky to be living in. We want a city where our children learn rather than just pass tests for political gain. We want a city to be proud of with a new World Trade Center rather than a city where every attempt by the Mayor to start a new project fails because of arrogance or disdain for the people living in the neighborhoods. We want a city where housing and not baseball stadiums are the priority.
Under the Bloomberg administration rents have soared and have not gotten better at any point during his administration. Tenants can't afford these rents and small landlords can't afford to maintain the buildings. For a Mayor that knows so much about the economy he has totally failed on this issue. If you own a co-op or a house in NYC during the Bloomberg administration you will have seen your property value has gone down rather than up. If Mayor Bloomberg is such a great economist how did he not know that the economy of NYC was in such dire shape? He has failed and the citizens of NYC have suffered because of it.
The World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001 and yet nothing has been done. Every project in NYC that the Mayor has touched is a failure and he refuses to take blame.
The Mayor took credit for crime being down in our schools but the following day it was reported that more student on student violence was up. The Mayor has ignored this issue. He has also ignored the fact that our students can't pass college entrance exams with his methods.
Go on the train early in the morning and you will find homeless people living in the cars. The Mayor does nothing.
The Mayor has failed at his job and must be removed for this reason. Either William Thompson or Tony Avella must show that Bloomberg has failed at his job and that people in NYC are suffering financially. They must begin now because Mayor Bloomberg has failed.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Mike Bloomberg Fails To Lead
If Mayor Bloomberg really cared about Mayoral control of the school system as he says he does why doesn't he make an effort to get them back to work?
He calls them names and ridicules them rather than try and be a mediator and a leader. If the Mayor was a member of the State Senate I'm sure he would act just as childish with his usual arrogance and name calling.
Leaders lead while men like Mike Bloomberg ridicule and create barriers and dislike.
Just like the State Senators the Mayor needs to go.
He calls them names and ridicules them rather than try and be a mediator and a leader. If the Mayor was a member of the State Senate I'm sure he would act just as childish with his usual arrogance and name calling.
Leaders lead while men like Mike Bloomberg ridicule and create barriers and dislike.
Just like the State Senators the Mayor needs to go.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Mayor Bloomberg Picks Rent Guidelines Board & is a Landlord Conflict of Interest
Mayor Bloomberg picks all the members on the rent guidelines board and yet he is a landlord. This would be equivalent to an Owner being on a Union board making decisions for employees. It is a conflict of interest.
The Mayor of NYC keeps getting more controls and the poor and middle class keep suffering more.
It is time for people to realize that Mayor Bloomberg is taking advantage of his wealth to make more and more power grabs harming the poor and middle class more and more.
See the following article for more information on his property
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/nyregion/09mayor.html
The Mayor of NYC keeps getting more controls and the poor and middle class keep suffering more.
It is time for people to realize that Mayor Bloomberg is taking advantage of his wealth to make more and more power grabs harming the poor and middle class more and more.
See the following article for more information on his property
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/nyregion/09mayor.html
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
83% of NYC Graduated High School Students Fail College Exams
About 83% of students entering City University of New York community colleges last year failed placement exams and had to take remedial courses in reading, writing or math - and most graduated from city high schools, records show.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/09/01/2008-09-01_many_entering_cuny_students_failed_place-2.html#ixzz0JIm7JWT5&C
The above paragraph is from an article in the New York Daily News. I went in search of it after I heard Mayor Bloomberg taking credit for the dropout rate and graduation rate being so much better in New York City.
The Mayor is doing a poor job of preparing our youth for higher education yet he takes credit for them passing tests. The tests get easier every year and the kids are just taught to pass the tests. Once they have to think for themselves they are in trouble because the Mayor's policy is to pass a test and not to learn.
My hope is that the Mayor does not get control of the schools again but I know he will because he keeps people blinded with his fancy ads and odd lack of courageous leaders to stand up to him.
The above paragraph is from an article in the New York Daily News. I went in search of it after I heard Mayor Bloomberg taking credit for the dropout rate and graduation rate being so much better in New York City.
The Mayor is doing a poor job of preparing our youth for higher education yet he takes credit for them passing tests. The tests get easier every year and the kids are just taught to pass the tests. Once they have to think for themselves they are in trouble because the Mayor's policy is to pass a test and not to learn.
My hope is that the Mayor does not get control of the schools again but I know he will because he keeps people blinded with his fancy ads and odd lack of courageous leaders to stand up to him.
Monday, June 22, 2009
NYC Jobless Rate at 9% Highest Since 1997
It was announced on Friday June, 19th that unemployement in NYC had reached 9% the highest its been since 1997.
If Michael Bloomberg is such a genius at business and solving economic problems how did it reach its highest point in 12 years?
Maybe its time to realize that all Michael Bloomberg does is advertise and sell himself.
If the economy starts to recover at some point he will take credit but it will be money acquired from the Federal government that will allow for improvements.
NYC is not a pleasant city under Michael Bloomberg as people are looking for work and coming up empty.
If Michael Bloomberg is such a genius at business and solving economic problems how did it reach its highest point in 12 years?
Maybe its time to realize that all Michael Bloomberg does is advertise and sell himself.
If the economy starts to recover at some point he will take credit but it will be money acquired from the Federal government that will allow for improvements.
NYC is not a pleasant city under Michael Bloomberg as people are looking for work and coming up empty.
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