Mayor Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street 'Trying To Destroy the Jobs of Working People'

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Mayor Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street 'Trying To Destroy the Jobs of Working People'
By Harry Siegel Fri., Oct. 7 2011 at 9:23 AM Comments (5)


Mayor Bloomberg fired a warning shot Friday at the city unions who have backed the Occupied Wall Street protests, saying "we're not going to have money to pay our municipal employees" if the financial sector takes a hit and New York's tax take goes down with it.

"Everyone's got a thing they want to protest, some of which is not realistic," Bloomberg said. "And if you focus for example on driving the banks out of New York City, you know those are our jobs ... You can't have it both ways: If you want jobs you have to assist companies and give them confidence to go and hire people."

"The protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city aren't productive," Bloomberg said in his weekly radio appearance with John Gambling. Taking a swipe at "some of the labor unions participating," Bloomberg added that "their salaries come from - are paid by - some of the people they're trying to vilify."

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/mayor_bloomberg_30.php

spoken like a true blue member of the 1%! FU Bloomberg!

[redwitch]

1. can he be that clueless??????

It's breathtaking.

[mod mom]

5. "Everyone's got a thing they want to protest, some of which is not realistic...

so just bend over and continue to take it because we deserve what we have.

:mad:

[Better Believe It]

11. No. He understands what's going on perfectly. He's just speaking in defense of his class.

What else can the billionaire do?

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. [phone].

[indepat]

31. Sounds like an effin' rant defending his class rather than speaking as Mayor of the country's

largest city. What an unmitigated arse. Of course, that's just my opinion and I might be wrong. :patriot:

[Skidmore]

22. Think. Where did he make is millions?

[roguevalley]

28. he is. when no one tells you when you are an asshat you begin

to believe as my sister says so well, "your shit don't stink." May he go the way of Nelson Rockefeller when he gloated over the 'glory' of Attica.

[markpkessinger]

37. He also said . . .

. . . "These people are protesting folks who earn maybe $40-50 thousand per year."

Right. A receptionist. Maybe.

Need I say more?

[City Lights]

2. The 1%ers are sounding more desperate with each passing day.

Keep up the great work, OWS!

[kayakjohnny]

15. !

:thumbsup:

[CoffeeCat]

3. We aren't trying to drive out the banks...

No one has anything against banks, per se. We all use banks.

What we have a problem with, Mr. Bloomberg--and you damn well know this--is that the banks
have bribed our politicians and corrupted our political system. Now, the banks get deregulation,
bailouts and they even get to engage in horrendous practices that crater the economy--all because
they've BRIBED our politicians and turned our democracy into a perverted version of government
that serves the corporations while harming (or ignoring) "We The People".

That's not right, Mr. Bloomberg. And you know it. We don't like the BEHAVIOR of the banks and
we want it to stop.

Shame on you for lying and for perpetuating the sick behavior that enables the corruption of government.

[cui bono]

8. Yeah, I haven't heard anyone say they want to drive the banks out.

What is desired is legal action against criminals and regulation and overhaul of a corrupt system. And a little fair play would be nice.

What a tool.

[tama]

26. Many of us are saying

that let the destructive banks self-destroy as they are doing, no more bail outs of the 1% by robbing the 99%. We can't no more afford the inherently self destructive banks.

And if the the banks are a global house of cards, let the whole system fall down. We can't afford it, the planet can't. We will live and live better without the financial house of cards, the global pyramid fraud. If we decide we are not yet ready to live without some form of money, we can create together other money systems that are not insane and inherently self-destructive.

[cui bono]

33. I agree, let them fail before giving them our money.

But that doesn't mean they can't exist. If they didn't play fast and loose with our money there is a place for them.

But there's not a place for those that steal from us so that they can give themselves outrageous bonuses while claiming they need a handout.

[tama]

35. It is self-evident

that banking system that can only exist as top of the pyramid and as long as the base of pyramid has something left to rob for the top, cannot exist indefinitely. And the writing is already on the wall.

That does not mean that there can't be alternative monetary systems that are not inherently self-destructive where banks can exist.

[JBoy]

10. His bullshit argument depends on a bullshit premise.

[Better Believe It]

12. He knows that. He's just trying to defend his class with lies and distortions when necessary.

[RKP5637]

4. That's BULLSHIT Mayor Bloomberg! The banks are parasitic leeches! n/t

[DainBramaged]

6. Mayor bloomberg, I made billions on the backs of little baby seals and I loved it

Fuck you Mannyberg, fuck you

[gratuitous]

7. Dear Mayor Bloomberg: Someone beat OWS to it

And see, that's sort of what they're . . . ah, never mind. You'll never get it. Just try not to cry like a little girl when your time is up, and have a shred of the dignity that's eluded you your entire life, okay Michael?

[tridim]

9. I guess it's opposite day in NY.

The 1% response is as expected.

We are winning.

[The Magistrate]

17. Exactly, Sir

[eShirl]

13. Pull you head out of your butt and get some fresh air, Mr. Mayor.

[aquart]

14. Sounds to me like he's using human shields.

Just does.

Wall Street can't run unless it's an unregulated criminal enterprise? Please. The same argument could have been made for Al Capone and his bootleggers. Personally, I think the liquor industry is doing just fine with taxes and regulation.

Put a hundred of the top banksters in jail and the market will THRIVE. RESTORE CONFIDENCE! ARREST THE GREEDY BASTARDS!

Restore Glass-Steagall (Big Dog, I screamed when you killed that set of protections. Screamed.) and outlaw derivatives.

It will be like magic.

[Taverner]

16. Fuck him.

[myrna minx]

18. Good heavens. Thurston's going to clutch teddy a little closer tonight. n/t

[Bloke 32]

19. If I might be permitted to say.....

...bollocks to you, Mr Bloomberg! (That wasn't a compliment.)

[Turbineguy]

20. Yeah!

I noticed since the protests started unemployment has skyrocketed.

Oh wait, never mind.

[workinclasszero]

21. FU Bloomberg

Well he just outed himself as a 1%er lackey, if there was ever any doubt.

[Trillo]

24. Has Bloomberg fired any public warning shots against Citizen's United?

I'm just trying to establish if he's being fair. Both OWS and the Citizen's United court decisions are based upon the First Amendment.

I believe I already know the answer, but it's always good to ask.

[OHdem10]

25. I am beginning to question his judgment. I had been impressed

with Bloomberg, but he keeps sounding Cluless.

He is probably getting pressure from Wall St Moguls
and he is attempting something--I cannot decide what.

[Uben]

27. Where was this POS when they took our jobs?

In the bathroom counting his money? Bloomberg is just another piece of shit republican scumbag. He only cares about the Wall Street jobs and doesn't give a shit about the peons. They don't give him money. He is a prime example of what this country needs to irradicate.......money-driven politics. What would the rich do if they couldn't buy elections and legislation? They'd do what we do, bitch, gripe and demonstrate! Except they'd pay someone else to do the footwork while they sat in front of a mirror masturbating to their own image.

[belcffub]

29. anyone who knows anything about New York State funding...

knows the state is heavily depended on wall street... any attack on wall street can affect the states bottom line... so his response is expected...

[Scuba]

30. For allowing (ordering?) his police to club the protesters Bloomy should be out of a job. n/t

[Hutzpa]

32. .

:crazy:

[nc4bo]

34. Just wow.

He sounds like a first rate turd.

[hifiguy]

36. Bullshit on stilts and steroids! nt

[ck4829]

38. Who is outsourcing? Who is hoarding money? Who is exploiting vicious circles of unemployment?

Not the protesters, that's for sure.

[Xicano]

39. Shove it up your ass Bloomberg!!

n/t

[B Calm]

40. Talk about ASS KISSING. . .

[6000eliot]

41. No one dare raise questions about the "job creators."

[Tennessee Gal]

42. Behaving responsibly, putting their clients interests first, and within the law will not put your

beloved financial district out of business, Mayor Bloomberg. That is all that is being asked of them. Had they done that in the first place this country would not be in this financial crisis.

[glowing]

43. BS, those banks and Wall St aren't going anywhere. They haven't

since the beginning and they won't be leaving anytime soon. What a tool.. Whah, Whah, Whah... the people are noticing and its not the Tea Party folks. Whah, Whah, Whah.. we may get regulated and have to pay our fair share.

[Tsiyu]

44. Poor widdle banks!

Got big bailouts, but all they really wanted was for us to coddle them and change their diapers and powder their delicate little bums. THEN, with their confidence-building pacifiers in their cute widdle mouths, they'd free up some money and some jobs and some titles to homes!

Fuck off, Bloomberg. I wish you were homeless and hungry. Then we'd see how much confidence you'd want to give to those who greedily sunk our economy.