Gothamist: "New York City Is The Economic Engine" of NY State

on our knees in three days

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:40:56 -0500

They have our water. They win. And our landfills (upstate, Virginia, North Carolina!). And our ports (Jersey). And our electrical generating capacity (everywhere but a few gas fired plants in queens and brooklyn). You thought people were cranky during the MTA strike?

shandanken spankan

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:37:31 -0500

Bloomberg does not care! That's what you get for electing billionaires into politics. And don't tell me bout the altruistic things they do, they do that because they have so much money and are so bored, they gotta do something. But in the end, they don't care because they don't see the suffering first hand. but it will come back in karma. His daughter will have a serious injury from riding her horse.

Tom

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:14:29 -0500

They have our water. They win. The "OMG WE SEND THEM MONEY" argument is stupid. Like 14 million of the 19 million people who live in the state live either in the city or on Long Island. When you have 3/4ths of the population, you pay 3/4ths of the taxes.

Ace

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:24:55 -0500

Perhaps the Mayor can ticket the many black SUV's the Governor leaves idling 24/7 on Fifth Ave.

careful what you wish for

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:06:24 -0500

And Pete needs to learn to spell. But seriously, considering the screw job New York City bankers and lawyers give to the rest of the country, paying more in taxes is your duty AS DEMOCRATS. Anyway, it isn't your tax surplus. It's Goldman Sachs's. Essentially you are condoning when some New York douche from a private equity firm buys out a company, loads it up with debt, and fires half the employees and moves production to China. Are you still proud of your city's "record" as the engine of growth?

Benjamin Kabak

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:24:34 -0500

And, per the Sun, Mayor Bloomberg also joked (we think), "Eliot lives about three doors from where I live, so I can always have somebody give him a parking ticket if he doesn't treat us well." He'll make Spitzer an offer he can't refuse.

pete

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:21:46 -0500

NYC needs to suceed from NYS and become a seperate state.

hizzoner hypocracy

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:03:43 -0500

Bloomberg is a HYPOCRITE with a capital H. Bloomberg has cut more city programs than most people realize, probably because people have been lulled to sleep by Bloomberg's intensive advertising and PR push in 2005. Spitzer is from NYC, so he isn't as distant as Bloomberg is making him out to be. Interestingly, Bloomberg was mouse-quiet when Pataki screwed NYC year in and year out (the education fiasco, anyone?). Democrats who voted for Bloomberg: aren't you glad you voted Republican?