Did Bloomberg really say this?

[rpannier]

29. I don't necessarily disagree with what you wrote

But given his anti-Union stances (esp public unions), his support and fawning over charter schools (which I do not support), Bloomberg supported Bush over Kerry (he even spoke at the Republican convention in 2004), Bloomberg claimed that the bankers and wall street was not responsible for the financial meltdown in 2008, and as was pointed quite well by Anand Giriharadas over at MSNBC, Bloomberg supports and defends the economic system we have now where the wealthiest now pay less in taxes than any other social class. Bloomberg is not Roosevelt by any measure.

Anand Giriahradas on MSNBC (part of the transcript)

Even if you have given a bunch away, you have benefitted from a system of 30, 40 years in this country. If you look at the data, the 1% of the .1%, it's too much. If you look at the 1% holding the wealth of America, the 1% getting 49% of the income, the data that you and I both know, the issue is unless you are showing as a very wealthy person that you're breaking down that system, you are, in a sense, complicit in that system. And Michael Bloomberg has shown zero appetite to fundamentally alter that system. So say that to my America is not an America in which most people who work 40 hours a week at the bottom half of the country do not anymore feel like they can move ahead, get education, get health care. That's not my America. My America is not a country in which, you know, the 400 wealthiest families play a lower effective tax rate than any other social class in this country. We can talk about what America is, but the way it's working for a lot of people at this table anymore doesn't work anymore.