From the Indypendent:Under Bloomberg, the gap between the rich and everyone else has widened so much that if Manhattan were a country, it might beat out Namibia for the title of the most economically polarized in the world. Developers have packed New York’s skyline with luxury condos. Landlords have driven tenants out of their homes all over the city to jack up rents. The symbol of Bloomberg’s New York is city parks where drinking fountains don’t work, but there are plenty of pushcarts peddling pints of bottled water for $2.
The mayor sees all this as both pragmatic and righteous — what higher purpose could there be than maximizing real-estate values? His vision of the city is turning it into a slightly greener, pro-Israel version of Dubai. If reelected, he will continue to serve the interests of the ultra-rich.
Bloomberg is not a liberal. He’s a devout plutocrat. He strongly opposes raising taxes on the rich, even to avert a massive subway-fare increase. Instead, he wants to raise the city’s sales tax. So a struggling single mother would have to kick in an extra quarter to get her kid a $50 pair of sneakers, but millionaires wouldn’t have to pay a penny more in income taxes.
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This is the same mentality that has brought our country as a whole to the brink of collapse.
Get it through your heads, the poor are poor for a reason--no money!
After they lard on all the taxes on the poor, they are shocked that not much is being collected. Why they must all be a bunch of crooks! How can the penniless not sprout fountains of money at their lord's command.
So a struggling single mother would have to kick in an extra quarter to get her kid a $50 pair of sneakersI can agree with much of the rest of the article, but "struggling single mothers" don't get their kids $50 pairs of sneakers, they get them $100+ pairs of sneakers. What planet is this author on?
I agree with everything this post states but come election time everyone from my neighborhood (Ridgewood / Glendale / Maspeth / Middle Village) will vote for Bloomberg because Thompson is black and Weiner is skinny and has a funny name.
And you wonder why we are referred to as the Archie bunker borough.
Actually, I don't know anyone in these towns who will vote for Bloomberg. And since this district voted for Obama, I don't see how you can qualify your stupid assertion that the "Archie Bunkers" of the area won't vote for a black person. However, I believe Thompson will eventually fold, Weiner's not running and most people here will vote for Avella.
"a slightly greener, pro-Israel version of Dubai."
Leave it to the leftists of Indypendent to make a gratuitous anti-Israel reference.
i have to agree about the part of him not raising taxes on the rich and fucking us on the sales tax. he will drive more business to close down and people will start to shop elsewhere to save the money. this man sucks as a mayor and business man. i hope they really start taking a look into his many investments. and avella kicks his ass come nov...
Whatever happened to the 2030 plan to raise the population by a million? Vote for a turd term and good luck to us all!!!
At first I thought the money was falling out of his ass. I guess it's coming from his pocket. Falling out of his ass would be a good image too, tho', don't ya think?
At first I thought the money was falling out of his ass. I guess it's coming from his pocket.
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Why do you ASSume that it is not coming from the butthead's butt? I just wanted to rectumfy your comment. I would have written sooner but I am falling behind.
The End
Not a fan of da Fuher from Brookline but the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is one of the saddest and most inacurate canard of all time.
If everyone's wealth grows by 5% a year the rich will have quite a bit more mpney after 20 years then the poor.
The missing statement is we have upward mobility. Go to school, get an education, work hard and you will get ahead. You will move from the poor to the middle class to the upper class over time. The people that move to the US typically understand that better then we do. They move here to make a better life for their children. That is the story of the US going back 200 years.
I now make in one hour more then my dad did in a week. I went to school, I studied, I worked very hard and I succeeded. No government handout, no rich family. But in the US we are mobile if we want to be.
No, that is exactly what is not happening. Even before inflation, wage rates have fallen for most workers. The only ones keeping up are the unionized or municipal employees and unions are being broken every day.
It is not the mean number of dollars that is important since this changes as the government runs its printing presses, but what percentage of the population owns what percentage of the total wealth.
"a slightly greener, pro-Israel version of Dubai."
Leave it to the leftists of Indypendent to make a gratuitous anti-Israel reference.
Ok! God forbid anybody say one bad word about Israel. Oh no! Not the country that has been ethnic cleansing since 1948 that has plans to absorb parts of Jordan,Syria, and parts of Iraq illegally. Which also gets Iraqi oil illegally.
Not the country with the most billionaires wanted for felonies from eastern europe granted shelter.
Also the place where Ethiopian Jewish residents who go back farther than their Eastern European counterpart, are not allowed to live with the white Jewish sector, and live in shaby high rises.
So tell me about the about the Jabotinsky Zionist fascist movement that "settled" the land by force that admired the Mussolini ideology.
Every country deserves to be critiqued, and every country does, but some cry foul immediately.
has plans to absorb parts of Jordan,Syria, and parts of Iraq illegally.How do you know of these alleged "plans"? Have you seen them?
Which also gets Iraqi oil illegally.How does Israel get Iraqi oil illegally?
You mean Israel, a country that grants the right to practice religion freely, unlike say, that land of religious tolerance Saudi Arabia?
Or Israel, the country that has Arab members of it's Parliament?
Ilive in mv and would consider myself leaning towards the right.I'd vote for thompson in a hearbeat.I wouldn't vote for weener 'cause he is a manipulative liar.F Bloomberg!
"Thompson will eventually fold, Weiner's not running and most people here will vote for Avella.".....
Voting for Avella is the same thing as voting for Bloomberg becuase Avella will never win much less raise enough money to even have a campaign.
The same still applies, you will vote for Avella (bloomberg) because Thompson is black and Weiner is skinny, jewish and has a funny name.
If the previous poster is a product of public NYC education, all I could say is OY VEY!
If Weiner and Thompson are too scared to run and my choice in the general election is between Bloomberg and Avella, I will vote for Avella. Do you not understand the rationale?
David v. Goliath
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If Weiner and Thompson are too scared to run and my choice in the general election is between Bloomberg and Avella, I will vote for Avella. Do you not understand the rationale?
Thompson is running. Are you going to vote for him or Avella?
Weiner is not running but if he was you would not vote for him anyway. Would you?
Not registered with a political party, so I can't vote for any of them in the primary. I will vote in the general election for whoever wins that primary, however, no matter how he looks or what kind of name he has.
ANYBODY BUT BLOOMBERG!
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