Bloomberg: Albany Might Make NYC "Suffer"

As state legislators prepare to face the worsening financial situation in Albany, Mayor Bloomberg warned that budget cuts from could make life particularly miserable for New York City residents. "We're just going to have to suffer," he said on his WOR radio show. Following his warning yesterday that the state might cut even funding for the MTA as it attempts to plug a budget deficit of about $10 billion before the April 1 deadline, the Mayor warned that that cuts could be widespread, according to the Post. He also shared these less-than-encouraging words: "If they start taking it out on us, and disproportionately on us versus the rest of the state ... then we're in big trouble."

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By Ben Muessig in News on December 20, 2009 4:47 PM

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newport27

the main source of the miserable quality of life of common new yorkers is YOUR CROOKED white-collar criminal ass and your policies, not NYState. this GUY has GOT TO GO

Snoopy

"the miserable quality of life" Of course it has nothing to do with all the non-white scamming welfare sucking gun toting thugs and baby mamas and their asshole kids on the subway and in the projects. No not at all.

silver

Lets layoff some union workers. Each one is 100K gross or more a year.

Darrell

You really believe that? No, most union workers aren't making 100K. Most are making half of that, but hey, go ahead and live in your fantasy world where that guy operating the train lives on park avenue.

Snoopy

No way is a guy making $100 grand a year going to live on Park or Fifth. There are no projects located on those two blocks south of Spanish Harlem.

Snoopy

Although we are going to see four more years of Mayor Mike. I bet by summer he will regret he ever went for the third term.

Just look at all the big projects he backed when times were good. None of them came to past. Now he is dead meat, pure and simple. RIP!

inoyourider

Fuck Albany.

They should be kissing our ass for the tax revenue and business we bring to this state.

felixthecat2

D-bag doubled his wealth while he gave our money to fund his friends' projects. Bloomberg is the Madoff of NYC

felixthecat3

and madoff is the madoff of the jews! yes?

felixthecat2

Valeriob, is this how you spend you sunday nights with my avatars? sad.

sowhtifithppnsitwll

"We're just going to have to suffer". LOL

I'm gonna start practicing voo-doo on his ass.

TrippinJoJo

Hey Doucheberg - YOU and your minions are making NYC suffer.

hunter.blatherer

Bloomie's no Freddy Wood, alas.

Mordicai

Ah, New York State. What a bunch of jerks.

GalBklyn

I love how Mayor Bloomberg is pointing to Albany as the source of our fiscal troubles. Wasn't his incredible and not to be topped fiscal management skills the rationale (if there really is anything close to a rationale) for his third term.

Maybe one day, some miracle will save us from this insanity. Give it up Mike, before you sink us all.

Snoopy

Where is the $750,000,000 going to come from to build that stupid sanitation garage on Spring Street. How about shifting it over to the Hudson River Park at Gansevoort and then the HRP can make some money on the deal also? HRP doesn't have two nickels to rub together but says they need to expand the park. And don't give me the crap that it is by law that the pier must be taken over. What happened to the two term limit of the mayor? Laws are made and they also can be changed.

McFister

Secession seems like a good idea.

NannyState

Upstate would love it more than anybody.

HOTCUP

like the rest of the state doesn't already take a disproportionate share of our taxes. this is nothing new.

let's just secede with southern westchester and the western half of long island.