If Bloomy would tax the businesses instead of giving them all the tax breaks, it would help pay for things like the police officers’ salaries and the sanitation workers.

Why is it that the working people are always to blame? The middle management that sits on their collective butts dreaming up ways to raise their pay scale while already making well over six figures are the ones soaking up the taxpayers money. The ones that are actually doing the work are being told they make too much. Minimum wage is being argued against. Who is supposed to support the economy, the rich? I keep hearing the Bush tax cuts are necessary to create jobs, last time I checked the cuts were still in effect, so where are the jobs?

City Time anyone? If they stopped wasting money on outrageously expensive contractors, maybe they wouldn’t have to lay off so many low paid city workers.

I watched the pot hole fillers.They stand around the hole talking holding up traffic You can cut the staff by 3/4 and keep the good workers. I’m not the only one that see this. Cut cut cut good good good

Lets get rid of your 311, what a waste that is. You call to complain about garbage pick up and all they do is transfer your call to sanitation. I could dial that myself, why does the city need 311 workers to transfer calls.

It’s not Bloomy it’s Dommy. I agree he was handed a city that was running it’s self.
He has done nothing for the city that has made him billions. He keep taking from the middle class and giving to the rich. He is not half the man the previous mayor was like ti or not.

Why don’t he donate some $ to the city he loves and made him rich. He says he is such a philanthropist yet he never shows it.
We need action not words.

How many terms in office does this clown have, the city has gone from bad to worse.

What good has he done.

Bloomy has done NOTHING for New York City.

This is just going to make the recession worse. No jobs for people, no money to spend. No money to spend, no spending money on goods and services. No demand for goods and services, no jobs. It’s an endless downward spiral.

This sounds like and absolutely atrosious plan. Wheres does all the money from the bridges and tunnels go? The MTA. How are they a money losing operation. They provide a service, they do not sell sweatshirts or video games. Parking tickets. Taxes removed automatically from our pay checks. Disgusting. All these “revenue sources”, andthese clowns can manage their fist through a wet paper bag.

why don’t they cut the suits behind him during the press conference – CUT the MANAGEMENT ! They are usless pos ….get paid to do nothing but LIE CHEAT AND STEAL

I don’t understand why the unions won’t give up a little to save the jobs of their union brothers. Unions typically have a democratic membership but are republican in action.

BF:
Suports people like him and fires hard working honest Americans.
GULAG revisited

I REALLY WISH THIS POS “MAYOR’ WOULD GET BRAIN CANCER AND DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH THAT HIS MONEY CANT BUY

I love the bone heads here who like to compare the goldbricking union non-workers “working” in government to Wall Street. If you bone heads want to compare to Wall Street and get the Wall Street bonuses, than be prepared to be rated on performance and fired en mass every 2 years, ala Wall Street.

I love the people blaming the mayor for the current financial situation of the city. Fact of the matter is that Unions have driven the city into this financial situation. Don’t forget that he’s the only mayor of NYC who isn’t getting paid but $1 a year to do his job. Only thing left is to revamp the entire MTA, and get rid of its money-pit administrators and workers.

wall street is about to have another banner year for bonuses..wonder why that is and where that is going? can you say city and state coffers..sales and income tax revenue are down no matter how much you oogle retail and ISM numbers. dig a bit deeper..that dollar in your pocket continues to be devalued…all the while CPI and inflation indicators are ex- food and energy..take a look when you gas up and when you go to the grocery store..that is if you are not paying with EBT cards already..brooklyn alone has 2.2. mil + on it. go to the grocery and notice hoe many pay with EBT if you live in that kind of nabe…me thinks even if you are upscale you will start to see EBT holders shortly…looking for a word that starts with “D” to describe this situation….

Mike, If we are hurting so much why did you spend $100,000,000 on the purchase of land in Coney Island. Why did you give Central Amusements a lease for 6.9 acres for $100,000 a year for 10 years. You are a fool and corrupt through and through.

And they want to spend millions changing the street signs in New York city.
The Mayor has gone mad.

Great Great Job! a lot of employee think their getting a free ride to retirement! great Job!

Mr. Mayor, you are right on the money

Let all the English speaking CUNY professors go, and instead hire “I failed my ESL course” adjuncts – you wll save tons of money for the city.

Nice move Mayor Mike….You need to close a $3 billion dollar budget shortage, but lets look to spend $2 billion more on a subway project to NJ that’s not needed. No wonder I moved out of NY.

Denise: Antics? He’s making a decision that should have been made years ago. Where else can a garbage man make $120,000 but in New York City? How financially ignorant con some of you people be? THERE IS NO MONEY. Maybe he ought to tax the rear-ends off people like you. I applaud the layoffs. it’s only the beginning. The union sucks in every big city have drained the taxpayers for decades. Time to Pay the Piper as you will.

I am sick of him and his antics.

So much for having a financial master at the helm of a city gov’t. Thought having him stay on for that 3rd term was to make things better, not worse. Maybe if he didn’t waste billions on City Time, the new 911 system, the failed Olympic bid, the failed WSide Stadium, giving out raises and benefits during the good times without planning ahead, raises and bonuses to his staff b.c of their selfish sense of entitlement, anti-terror measures which have prevented nothing, etc… Oh yeah, I forgot about all the no-bid contracts and higher than market rates the city is paying to lease office and school space from his friends. Yep.

3 bucks?