"We're going to spend the money," the mayor said, referring to 1,700 snow plows and 365 salt spreaders that sanitation workers will use to beat back the winter weather. "Then we'll figure out where it's going to come from."He's obviously presidential timber.
Remember, this is a city whose budget is $2 billion or more in the red, so if you have a check from the New York City government just lying around someplace, I'd take it to the bank at lunch today. Just sayin'.
"Keep the proles happy--they won't realize that money doesn't grow on trees until I'm out of office!"
ReplyDeleteI guess the great Bloomberg passing a law banning snow wont solve all his problems
ReplyDeleteInstead of "honest" perhaps "inadvertently speaking the truth" might be more appropriate. After all, we know who will pay for it -- why, the good old taxpayers!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, snowing to beat the band here in NH. Marko must be up to his lederhosen at home.
I guess it's too much to expect that a major northeastern city with a $2 billion budget would have actually budgeted some of those funds for, you know, snow removal.
ReplyDeleteWhat with saloon non-smoking enforcement, vigilant trans-fat monitoring and maintaining the salt gestapo, I guess the taxpayers' money has been previously committed to more important municipal activities.
Which reminds me, your roommate asked at her place a while back if anyone mounted plows to garbage trucks. NYC appears to use separate equipment for the most part, but the garbage men man the plows at least.
ReplyDeleteI thought they had plenty of plows last time. It was the willing application of them which was lacking, on the part of the operators.
ReplyDeleteThe wetware interface was the glitch.
Spend the money? What, they're going to bribe their workers to, y'know, do the work they're paid for?
ReplyDeleteWork? I think that's against the Union contract somehow.
ReplyDeleteShit, I'd drive a snowplow for free!
ReplyDelete*WHEE!*
There is no bigger douche in American politics than Micheal Bloomberg. As you know, that is a TALL order! I have feeling where he is gonna get the money, but I don't think it has to do with his wallet.
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