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crazytown's JournalBloomberg on the Public Sector : Cut entitlements, pensions, and job security protections.
Across the country, taxpayers are provinsions, benefits and job security protections for public workers that almost no one in the private sector enjoys. Taxpayers simply cannot afford to continue paying these costs, which are growing at rates far outpacing inflation.Benefits agreed to 35 years ago that now are unaffordable should be reduced. Similarly, work rules that made sense 70 years ago but are now antiquated should be changed.
Limit Pay, Not Unions
Michael R. Bloomberg, Feb. 27, 2011
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/opinion/28mayor.html
"To reduce the deficit we must cut entitlements"
... keep in mind, no program to reduce the deficit makes any sense whatsoever unless you address the issue of entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest payment on the debt, which you can't touch, and defense spending. Everything else is tiny compared to that.
https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Mike_Bloomberg_Social_Security.htm
Limit Pay, Not Unions includes a 'defense' of unions right to collective bargaining. What the Mayor was interested in was a 'right' to bargain away benefits and protections legislated by the NY State government.
But in some cases, we believe expanding collective bargaining would be more beneficial than trying to eliminate it.
For example, in New York, state government not the city has the authority to set pension benefits for city workers, but city taxpayers get stuck with the bill. The mayor cannot directly discuss pension benefits as part of contract negotiations with unions, even though pension benefits could be as much as 80 percent of an employees overall compensation. In addition, members of the State Legislature pass pension sweeteners for municipal unions that help attract support for their re-election campaigns.
Bloomberg was also seeking a 'collective bargain' which would enable him to 'eliminate teachers who have been rated unsatisfactory'.
Micheal Bloomberg announcement speech
Bloomberg: Trying to legalize marijuana "is perhaps the stupidest thing we've ever done".
https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1087891294519730177Bloomberg: "I've never been in favor of raising the minimum wage"
You don't solve the problem (of wealth inequality) by taking things away from the richBloomberg News: Will not do in-depth investigations of Mike Bloomberg
Luckily, they have decided to swear off 'in-depth' investigations of other Dem candidates too
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/business/bloomberg-media-presidential-campaign.html
Bloomberg: NYPD Stops-And-Frisks Too Many White People, Not Enough Minorities.
Bloomberg Thinks NYPD Stops-And-Frisks Too Many White People, Not Enough MinoritiesMayor Bloomberg went full troll during his weekly radio appearance on Friday, offering his opinion that too many white people are being stopped-and-frisked...but the NYPD has really been lax when it comes to stop-and-frisking minorities! "I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little. It's exactly the reverse of what they say," Bloomberg said, referring to the City Council passing two NYPD oversight bills intended to check the NYPD's allegedly unconstitutional enforcement policies (bills he's already vowed to veto). "I don't know where they went to school but they certainly didn't take a math course. Or a logic course."
Where to begin: how about the fact that more than 86 percent of people stopped during the Bloomberg administration were black or Latino, according to an analysis by the NYCLU based on an extrapolation of Police Department data. And 4.4 million of these stop-and-frisk encounters, or 88 percent, were of innocent people who were not arrested or issued a summons. During Bloomberg's first year in office, the NYPD conducted 97,296 street stops; in 2012, they racked up 533,042down from 685,724 in 2011.
Only nine percent of stops were white people. Still, Bloomberg was undeterred in his assessment: "That may be, but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murders," he said, adding, "most serious crimes in this city are committed by male minorities [age] 15 to 25." So does Bloomberg think it's good to "instill fear" in minorities?
Bloomberg also didn't address the fact that as stop-and-frisks have gone down over the last yeardue to several major lawsuits and NYPD "policy considerations"shootings and murders have also gone down in tandem.
https://gothamist.com/news/bloomberg-thinks-nypd-stops-and-frisks-too-many-white-people-not-enough-minorities
"Don't bash Democratic public figures"
So let me welcome Mike Bloomberg into the race with appropriate civility. I hope W comes back and campaigns for him in the primaries. One good turn deserves another. As Joe would say, Real Solid Guys.
Mike Bloomberg
Monday, August 30, 2004
Republican National Convention
I want to thank President Bush for supporting New York City and changing the homeland security funding formula and for leading the global war on terrorism.
(APPLAUSE)
The president deserves our support.
(APPLAUSE)
We are here to support him.
(APPLAUSE)
And I am here to support him.
(APPLAUSE)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46503-2004Aug30.html
Reddit: 'Jeremy Corbyn & Bernie's Speeches Are Almost Identical And It Is Amazing'
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/e0gyr2/jeremy_corbyn_bernies_speeches_are_almost/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Does not amaze me. Democratic Socialism.
Why did 'real Americans' support trump in 2016?
Mike Bloomberg to launch the largest one-week political advertising campaign in history
Mike Bloomberg set to launch the largest one-week political advertising campaign in history(CBS News) Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is preparing to launch the largest one-week political advertisement campaign ever on Monday across at least 24 states, according to advertising trackers and federal disclosures.
As of 4:15 p.m. ET on Friday, Advertising Analytics, a firm that analyzes political advertising, tracked at least $31 million in broadcast TV ad buys from Bloomberg.
According to Medium Buying, another political advertising tracker, the top markets were New York City ($1.6 million), Los Angeles ($1.1 million), Houston ($956,000), Dallas ($843,000), Tampa ($723,000) and San Francisco ($639,000). California and Texas, where Bloomberg is set to spend a combined $3.6 million in four cities alone, will be holding primaries on Super Tuesday, March 3. The buy is scheduled to start on Monday and continues into the second week of December in many markets.
Aides to Bloomberg have declined to comment on the planned ad buys.
On Thursday, Bloomberg's team filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission saying he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination, but he has not yet officially announced a bid. He has filed to be on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-bloomberg-set-to-launch-the-largest-one-week-political-adverstising-campaign-in-history/
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