Bloomberg Compares Living-Wage Bill to Communism »
What I don’t understand is that he tries to set up the comparison as a bad thing for both….
a Texan accurately describes Times Square. I hope Bloomberg cries over this.
She also nails one of the best things about NYC too:
They got a cute pigeon. I saw a cute pigeon… And the pigeons, I think the pigeons are actually from here, because they seem to have some purpose and know what they’re doing.
(although, I think her opinion on Niagara Falls is horseshit)
Do I make a comment that illustrates how horrible this comment is from the “Yeah, because They Be Tapin” angle? Or the “That’s actually pretty fucking racist on top of Ray Kelly’s racist bullshit” angle? Or maybe just respond with “Yeah fucking right, Mr. fucking Mayor”?
Mr. Ratner said Thursday that the existing incentives for developments where half the units are priced for middle- and low-income tenants “don’t work for a high-rise building that’s union built.”
He added that he had “accepted the fact that we’re not going to get more subsidy.”
- buried towards the end of this piece in the WSJ on the Atlantic Yards (paltry) design choices is this nugget of Ratner being the typical piece of shit most of Brooklyn (and New York) has grown to know him as. As BrooklynSpeaks puts it:
The first part of Bruce Ratner’s shocking statement pits union workers against working families, and becomes truly appalling when one considers his project removed 171 units of occupied affordable housing from the Atlantic Yards footprint before beginning construction. It sounds like the families he displaced shouldn’t plan on coming back now.
BrooklynSpeaks also figures that Ratner is gearing up to battle the unions on labor costs to save as much of those subsidies as possible. That should go over well since we already know Ratner and Co. are fucking over the people on jobs. I wonder what alleged OWS supporter and heavy-hitting partner in the Atlantic Yards development Jay-Z thinks about all this? (no, I don’t. Fuck that guy)
I think it becomes obvious when the attempts at justification are put forward for the State’s violence/brutality and suppression, when Jean Quan or Bloomberg try to excuse the mountains of bullshit, you see how thin all the smoke and mirrors have gotten.
