This NYT article about the Bloomberg Plutocracy misses the point, but the NYT often misses the point.
Bloomberg is the ruling class elite on steroids, imposing his preferences by playing the rich bull in the china shop.
Funny, with all this flattery in the NYT piece, no mention of the prolonged hardships of the people devastated by Sandy who were ignored while Bloomberg pursued his aesthetic obsessions and meddling pretenses.
He is or was like a Medici in old Florence, but he was a Mayor in a country that is supposed to be a republic with a limited government by the consent of the people. His use of personal funds to exaggerate the role of the Mayor is misconduct in office. Someone should bring him up on charges. What he did is like what happens in Banana Republics and Oligarchies.
Constitutional Republics, recommended by Aristotle, Locke and certainly our founders, are supposed to be societies with a proper environment for the citizen, decadence follows a regime like created by Bloomberg. Nanny states are not a proper place for human development, happiness, development, accomplishment and liberty.
I am disgusted to read this devotional piece by the NYT, but they should really dedicate a chapel for such an icon, candles and incense and such would be right, Bloomberg would finance the thing out of petty cash.
I cannot comprehend how we came to this, encomiums for demogogues with big bank accounts. In America?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/nyregion/cost-of-being-mayor-650-million-if-hes-rich.html?_r=1&
The NYT thinks oligarchies/plutarchies are charming?
Marx was a medievalist in outlook. So is Bloomberg, so are the ruling class elites described and condemned so insightfully by Angelo Codevilla.
The NYT is a medievalist elitist journal, and certainly committed to a statist tyranny of elites. All, of course, intended to take care of us properly, and show us how to live and what to think.
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution
Bloomberg was the introduction to our newly elected dictator.
Rockaways–I didn’t mention–are on Long Island in the Hempstead area. My point was I know what Bloomberg didn’t do and the Feds didn’t do for Staten Island–it was shameful.
Let’s see, Staten Island was wrecked and nobody knows how much it is still a wreck because the press doesn’t talk about it, but it isn’t Bloomberg’s fault?
I see. It was FEMA or W or someone else that didn’t get the relief work going. Bloomberg had food trucks out? Excellent.
People were still out of their homes long after Sandy was gone, but Bloomberg was a savior?
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If you live in Rockaway, you know Bloomberg did more than any other government group to aid the victims of Sandy.Food trucks in the neighborhoods, Rapid Repair reestablishing home heating and power at no charge, sanitation dept clearing rubble and home cleanout debris in record time. NYFD and NYPD presence in damaged areas. Anyone who demeans Bloomberg’s role in real relief for Sandy victims is just plain ignorant or a liar.
Bloomberg used his money to act like a king. None of the press dared question him. I never did understand how he got away with his interstate “straw purchase stings.” If the acts he supported were indeed illegal, then why wasn’t he and his purchasers guilty of criminal behavior? It’s nice being rich.
His successor seems to believe in really soaking the rich for increased social spending. I wonder who will be worse.
I haven’t been to NYC in a quarter century and doubt I’ll have much inclination to go in the next 25 years. Look like it is going downhill willingly.