Oh mr. bloomberg you old gilded era scamp you...

[Javaman]

>First bloomass says: We don't need no stinking food stamps!!! The poor are the new solyent green!!!

Despite U.S. Offer, City Stands Firm on Food Stamps

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18stamps.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

A provision in President Obama’s stimulus package, extending food stamp benefits for able-bodied adults, has revived a dispute in New York City between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and advocates for the poor.

Andrew Henderson/The New York Times
Able adults who do not work are limited to three months of benefits.
The provision overturns a 1996 rule limiting able-bodied adults who have no dependents to three months of food stamps in a three-year period. But the Bloomberg administration said on Tuesday that nothing had changed and that it was not obligated to extend benefits to anyone not enrolled in the Work Experience Program, a workfare program that provides temporary jobs, usually in city agencies.

>However, if you are one of the "unlucky" wall streeters who worked their magic to screw the economy, bloomass is your fairy god mother.

City Will Help Retrain Laid-Off Wall Streeters

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/nyregion/19bankers.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Just as Michigan is scrambling to retrain laid-off auto workers, New York City officials have come up with a plan to find new work for the unemployed from one of its core industries: financial services.

Librado Romero/The New York Times
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg outlining initiatives to retrain financial services workers.
Under a program unveiled on Wednesday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the city wants to invest $45 million in government money to retrain investment bankers, traders and others who have lost jobs on Wall Street, as well as provide seed capital and office space for new businesses those laid-off bankers might create.

>See the weathly are just better than us. How could I have ever doubted this?

:banghead:

bloomass needs to eat a healthy portion of shit.

[TwilightGardener]

1. I don't get the problem--people just have to enroll in the Work Experience

Program, and take temporary city jobs, to be eligible for benefits past three months. Why wouldn't you want a job, even a temporary one, if you were desperate enough to be on food stamps? I think it sounds fair--and might give some unemployed people some valuable work experience. Bloomberg has been pretty sensitive to the poor overall, was my impression of him.