6 Ways the 7th Richest Man in America Has Screwed the Poor

[DAngelo136]

4. As a resident of the People's Republic of The Bronx

I have to respond. Michael Bloomberg was seen as first as a refreshing alternative to 8 years of Giuliani fatigue. Rudolph Giuliani had managed to alienate pretty much every group in NYC, including those who had supported him in his 2nd campaign against Mayor David Dinkins.
If anyone remembers, the Democratic candidate Mark Green had eliminated himself after 2 huge political gaffes; deferring to Giuliani's trial balloon to extend his stay as Mayor past his term due to the "emergency" of the September 11th attacks and the association of his campaign distributing literature in white neighborhoods with unflattering racist caricatures of Al Sharpton and Fernando Ferrer from the New York Post. While Green was personally exonerated, the incident turned the support of Black and Hispanic communities against him from which he never recovered.
Bloomberg promised to change the way the city was run; he was going to run it like a business. Even as far as changing the mayor's office from it's traditional layout to a typical business office bullpen; not unlike his Bloomberg newsroom. http://www.nysun.com/new-york/bloomberg-bullpen-for-oval-office/58014/

His mayoralty was a direct result of the terrorist attacks on NYC; New Yorkers were afraid, tired, and wanted change from the same old politics. To be sure, there were some progressive changes. But overall, Bloomberg's New York has turned more to be a plutocratic paradise more than a city for the masses. Just as the plutocrats from the FIRE (Finance, Insurance and Real Estate)interests planned it to be when they were given control after the city's financial crisis of the '70's

I suggest you look back on that seminal moment in this city's history and you will see what they have in store for the country and the world economy. NYC is the model for the financial restructuring and political reorganization of this country and the rest of the world, IMHO.