Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By Gary Tilzer
Governing by blinders simply means making budget decision disconnected from a single narrative which both the pols and the media are failing to give city residence. The media has allowed the pols to create a new culture that allows them to deliver government to their supports or good causes without taking responsibility for those actions on the city budget or the economic health of New York. It means paying a developer $95 million while cutting the police force. Since 2001 the police force shrunk by over 6000 cops to 34,304 members and we had to wait until after the election to find out what the city will cut because of the recession. We used to have police classes of thousands of new office a year today we are down to a couple of hundred a year. We are paying over a billion on a new police academy as we cut police officers.
New Yorkers want to pay a fair wage Paterson Prepares Wage Bill for Construction Sites We are good people. It make sense to pay people not to go to work sick during the swine flu winter Making business sicker We even hate traffic tickets Traffic Agents and Politicians Debate Value of 5 Minutes. Bloomberg is using the ticket blitz to pay for city services that would otherwise be cut. What is the cost of the council's parking bill and what will the council cut to make up the debt is never discussed. In other words the pols get away with being irresponsible to the city budget. Daily News Edit shows that the council bill to make a parking hour 65 minutes, does not even help motorists Parking space cadets: City Council pretends to befriend beleaguered motorists
Question the Media Fails to Ask Over and Over How we do balance the budget, continue to fix education and not tax the middle class and businesses out of New York? NYC Faces Middle Class Exodus * Schools’ Grades Reflect Persistent Disparity * Businesses rip mandate on sick days , Labor advocates, small business groups clash over proposed paid sick leave bill , Businesses say paid sick days would cost $8.8 billion annually. Don't look for the media or pols to take off their blinders as today's Orwellian double speak Daily News headline proves Mayor: Layoffs likely, but $683M tax windfall will save jobs Talk about blinders, only the Daily News editorial board covered the ongoing budget impasse in Albany The worst of times: Legislature fiddles in Albany while mayor faces down city deficit * Gov. David Paterson doesn’t understand why people are sounding optimistic about budget negotiations — but if it’s an effort to cheer up the media, we appreciate it. (TU). As the state goes broke both and nobody will take the leadership in balancing the budget the NYT writes about New York Is Set for Strict Stand on D.W.I. Cases and the NYP does not even give an update of the budget stalemate in Albany today
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