There’s the old story of Emperor Nero playing the fiddle while huge chunks or Rome burned. Seems Mike Bloomberg likes that history very much.
Borough President James P. Molinaro was the first to call on Bloomberg to cancel the marathon, saying that to hold it, with its staging are on Staten Island, would be “crazy, asinine.”
“Do you realize how many police officers you need for a marathon? There are people looting stores on Midland Avenue. There is looting taking place in the homes on the South Shore that were destroyed. That is where we need the police.”
But Bloomberg insists the marathon will not redirect focus from recovery efforts on Staten Island or throughout the city because he expects power in downtown Manhattan to be restored, free many of the police officers who are working there to direct traffic and otherwise deal with the outage.
Its also nice that Emperor Nero Bloomberg felt in the goodness of his massive heart to Disarm the people of NYC so that when the looters and rioters came to his subject’s homes and businesses they could simply lie back and think of him!
Oh yeah, he cares!
“The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast — in lost lives, lost homes and lost business — brought the stakes of next Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief,” Mr. Bloomberg wrote in an editorial for Bloomberg View.
“Our climate is changing,” he wrote. “And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be — given the devastation it is wreaking — should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.”
Actually, Bloomberg comes off worse than Nero in the comparison.
Nero wasn’t even in Rome when the fire broke out; he was away at a music and poetry competition. When he heard about the fire, he rushed back to the city and opened up public buildings to house people. He made sure people had food, water, and shelter. Afterwards he implemented reforms intended to prevent a repeat of the fire — widened streets, stricter controls on who could tap the city’s water supply, and more. He even approved low- and no- interest loans from the treasury to help people rebuild.
OK, he also took a huge swath of the city and built a massive new palace on it, including a 100′ high, gold-plated statue of himself. And it’s possible one of his close associates was involved in starting at least the second wave of the fires — in order to replace his tenants with higher-rent ones and get hold of some of the reconstruction money.
But at least his initial response made sense, unlike Bloomberg’s.
Is there any footage out there of Mickey Augustus actually out on the streets in the Disaster Zone? All I’ve seen is his lazy ass Pontificating from the Podium like Obama at a Campaign Rally.
I’m really thinking that Mickey Augustus is having a “Reality Break,’ and needs to be Hospitalized. His entire response is making that Idiot who was running New Orleans during Katrina look good. Having a Marathon? Don’t send in the National Guard? Open the City for Business when 1/3 is leveled/underwater/no heat/no light/no transportation? What world is he seeing through his eyes? OZ?
And there’s more…
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