Walker writes: "'The difference between my level of government and other levels of government is that action takes place at the city level,' Mayor Bloomberg said. 'The cities and mayors are where you deal with crime, you deal with real immigration problems, you deal with health problems, you deal with picking up the garbage.' You see, according to Mayor Bloomberg, he and his mayoral colleagues are focused on results. It's the rest of the politicians who are screwing things up."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (photo: NYDaily News)
Mayor Bloomberg: 'I Have My Own Army'
30 November 11
n a speech at MIT last night to discuss the packed sweepstakes to build a tech campus in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg said he prefers City Hall to the White House. Almost immediately after Mayor Bloomberg dampened recent speculation he's eyeing a White House bid, he added fuel to the fire by explaining why a mayor would be the best person for the job.
Mayor Bloomberg's recent criticism of President Obama for allowing the debt reduction Supercommittee to fail led many political tea leaf watchers to believe he's eyeing a potential White House bid. To the dismay of those who hope he'll mount presidential campaign, Mayor Bloomberg began his speech last night by discussing why City Hall is just fine by him.
"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have," Mayor Bloomberg said.
At first, Mayor Bloomberg sounded he was outlining why three terms as mayor was enough experience in public office for him, but he quickly switched gears and began characterizing City Hall as the perfect preparation for the White House because it allowed him to buck the Beltway establishment get real on-the-ground knowledge.
"I don't listen to Washington very much, which is something they're not thrillled about," Mayor Bloomberg said. "We have every kind of people from every part of the world and every kind of problem."
Mayor Bloomberg explained that, unlike Washington politicians, mayors are people of action.
"The difference between my level of government and other levels of government is that action takes place at the city level," Mayor Bloomberg said. "The cities and mayors are where you deal with crime, you deal with real immigration problems, you deal with health problems, you deal with picking up the garbage."
You see, according to Mayor Bloomberg, he and his mayoral colleagues are focused on results. It's the rest of the politicians who are screwing things up.
"At the state or federal level, that's where the real problems are. You see it particularly in American government at the moment where they are just unable to do anything, and yet, the mayors of this country still have to deal with the real world," said Mayor Bloomberg.
Mayor Bloomberg closed by expressing the desire for someone with real, executive experience to arrive on the scene and change things in Washington.
"Unfortunately, people at the federal level or the state level typically spend their whole lives in politics, and they've never been an executive and it shows," Mayor Bloomberg said.
Who could he possibly be thinking of?
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I don't actually disagree with your comment. The influence of big money and the ineffectiveness of the federal government, including Congress, are exactly what the Occupy Movement is fighting to change.
However, billionaire businessmen are exactly who we don't need taking over.
He may have an army but who pays for it? Not him!
Does this make Bloomberg our first Warlord? Welcome to Somalia.
It just puts him in the role of maybe the 7th biggest bull**it artist in the US.
If the sky is going to fall let it fall on Mayor Bloomberg. His pandering to the fascist element in this country has got to have some of his relatives in mass graves in foreign lands spinning.
If they have even a little bit (even less than an ox. of Marujuana on them - they are booked into jail.
The new way to "slavery" for the minority population and another way for the privatized prisons to "make money"
Bloomberg has his own army and this act of search without cause is against our Constitution. He is maybe worse than the worst GOP/TP Pig in Congress - who voted unanimously (today) in the Senate to allow the Taxes for the 98 to go up on 1/1/2012 while continuing the loopholes on the top 1%.
NOTHING can be clearer that the NOrquist CULT is for the 1% - with their TAX B.S.rhetoric about "not raising taxes"
Without a middle class these pigs won't have a democracy! Congress tried to pass a bill that anyone (even a U.S. Citizen can be detained in Gitmo (etc) without lawyer or reason.
Maybe with a Dem Congress & W.H. we can get some of sanity in the law -- or we'll find out how complicit the Dems are with the GOP/TP pigs.
Register early + mail-in ballots (help minorities to get registered early - send fliers - contact local Dem headquarters0
If you are up for a good read try 'Slavery by Another Name' by Douglas A. Blackmon.
He doesn't listen to the American people either....only the 1%.
"I have my own army...the seventh biggest army in the world."
Your point being???
What Mayor B doesn't mention is the "HOW" of dealing with the problem. He has a choice: compassion & understanding or force and repression. It's obvious which one he has chosen in regard to the OWS. His actions say more about him than all the words in the world.
Hey - didn't George W have 'EXECUTIVE experience?' Yeah - that really worked!
In wangling a third term, he showed his contempt for the rule of law. In his previous life he was the all-oowerful dictator of a corporation, and he's carried the arrogance of power to his new role as an elected public official. The difference is that CEO's don't have private armies.
Keep talking, Mr. Mayor. You won by only a squeaker this time.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single president that was ever a mayor.
"Unfortunately, people at the federal level or the state level typically spend their whole lives in politics, and they've never been an executive and it shows," Mayor Bloomberg said.'
Imagine the changes Bloomberg could make. Wow. Actually, I don't want to think about it.
After all, he is the "King" of NY, and he's soooo rich, in his mind people are supposed to be afraid of him, hop to his tune, even if he has the presence of a midget South American dictator...all that's missing is the faux white satin uniform with the chest full of bogus medals and the copious shoulder and hat braids. Next to the word "arrogance" in the dictionary is a photo of him, with an arrow pointing to "hubris".
Some say he's been good for New York all these post 9/11 years, turning it into a DisneyWorld version of its former messy, sleazy, magnificent self (the place where I was born and raised and lived most of my life). Times Square looks like a sterile dreamscape where you can eat off the sidewalk, instead of the mysterious, dark terrain it was when Lindsey and Koch ran the show. It's "safer", and perhaps that's good. But at what price? Tyranny of the short!
Billionaire Bloomberg has already shamed himself with his NYPD assaults on the innocent, not to mention his links to all the big money on Wall Street.
One has to ask: If someone is a billionaire, why do they want to run for any office? But the answer is simple. It's to protect that big money as Bloomberg is doing.
As for his comment about wanting a real leader in the White House, to change things in D.C., no disagreement there. Many of us thought it might have been Barrack Obama.
Maybe it is time for a "recall" Bloomberg movement. Clearly, the US needs a clean sweep of its corrupt politicians.
While it is true that "HE" bought the chair from which he pompously projects his vision of 'profitability' in big city government, Bloomberg is only a temporary public servant supervising the executive branch of New York citizens' community. His "army" demonstrated its 'directed' priority of protecting "stuff" and maintaining defined "order" with military indifference to Constitutional principles upon which our nation used to take pride. Even for City Council members "Move on! Now!" is an 'executive refrain. Hannibal, Caesar, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Pope Nicholas each projected his own vision of righteous power. Bloomberg's focus on money and appearances is no better. The 1% are well represented in his view of what holds importance ... 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' of the 99%? Not so much as a hint!
You'd better believe that Bloomberg has already lined up the financing and is simply awaiting the results from the Repub primaries. But he's been in campaign mode for well over a year, and unless progressives start calling him out for his perfidy, he's got a good shot.
We will never tolerate Nazis here Mr Bloomberg so tell that to you Contacts!
Remind Your Army that when there are no budget they will have none either. If History repeats itself the Troops get too much Power and turn on their leaders, so watch what you wish for
Amen.
His? Not the city's, not the people's? Oh, indeed? Insane overreaching: anyone who says such stuff publicly has lost some very important social marbles.
And what he says about local government is true. Local officials have to be accountable because the consequences of their actions are seen every day by their constituents. They have to make it work.
In my small city, we have many Tbaggers and general know nothings, but our recently elected City Council members were not among them. Indeed two are progressives. Consistently voters make good decisions on local issues, though they screw up on national at times.
When you complain about these many abuses by the citiy then you see the real Bloomberg. He dismisses you like yesterday's carbage.
Bloomberg is trully a republican. He is worst because he uses his wealth to further his grip around our very throats.
It may be true that Bloomberg is the the best of the worst but that in no way inoculates him from most of the above comments. If NY-ers want him to be their dictator for a fourth term so be it. But if the comments above represent the city's citizens I don't think that will happen. If I was one of them I would join an effort to recall him.
He is a psychotic Rothschield Zionist doing anything necessary to keep the knife of oppression in our collective backs.
There is no hint of evidence of hope that he, Bloomberg, might even consider that he is supposed to be a representative of all New Yorkers. Our grievences are met with gross police hostility.
He talks ignorantly as though he has won the war not realizing that the real war has just began.
If a police officer can be sued as a normal citizen & be personally liable for damages out of his own pocket so-to-speak rather than having the taxpayer cover for him, then maybe police brutality will finally end. Until a police officer has to worry about losing his house or some other personal item of great expense, perhaps even lots of money, then nothing will change & police brutality will continue.
What scares me even more is that a police officer can go as far as killing (murdering) you or a loved one & actually get away with it if he claims that he felt that his life was in danger even when it wasn't.
TRANSLATION: "My connections with the world's richest and most powerful work as a team FOR YOUR FUTURE!...total control of ALL the world's people and the earth's resources.
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