Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn't create more jobs

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Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn't create more jobs


Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn't get serious about generating jobs.

"We have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs," Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show.

"The damage to a generation that can't find jobs will go on for many, many years," the normally-measured mayor said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/16/2011-09-16_mayor_bloomberg_predicts_riots_in_the_streets_if_economy_doesnt_create_more_jobs.html


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And we're still denying that this is a DEPRESSION?

It's not only a depression, but it's intended to do a great deal more harm than ending

Social Security and Medicare!

And this DEPRESSION is as engineered as the first one was -- !!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. ""We have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs,"

Caveman Mayor?

:shrug:

[defendandprotect]

16. That's been going on since at least the 1980's ...

and after they got jobs many got laid off, more than once --

Many now aren't invested in any pension program!

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[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Hmmm guess the Mayor will join me in the Casandra club

all I got to say on that any more.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Point the angry young mobs towards Wall Street...

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[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Actually, it just might.

It is American monetary policy that has created the world wide recession, with the supposedly 'international' support for austerity measures which don't, and never have, helped the countries that have them imposed upon them by the World Bank and IMF - what they do is increase the stratification between the classes.

A few riots would be an indication that the US is not going to play those games on behalf of the banksters, er, financial elites anymore.

"A riot is a terrible thing - and I think it's about time we had one!"

[jwirr]

18. Agreed.

[hifiguy]

26. Not before they are armed with pitchforks and

barbed-wire-covered baseball bats.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Riots to his bank account.

:think:

[Atman]

6. PREDICTS? The Republicans have been planning on it.

They went and build new detention centers, they drained our treasury, they've done everything in their power to get people to riot...but Americans are fat an lazy, and as long as American Idol and Survivor are on, we'll be complacent. Shut down cable tv and the internet, THEN Americans will riot.

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[DrunkenBoat]

7. bloomberg's got half the money in nyc, he shoould create some.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/nyregion/new-york-plan-will-aim-to-lift-minority-youth.html?pagewanted=all

"A $30 million contribution from Mr. Bloomberg’s foundation would be matched by that of a fellow billionaire, George Soros, a hedge fund manager, with the remainder being paid for by the city."

[DrunkenBoat]

9. Nice tax break. Doesn't look like it actually creates many jobs though, except for the

professional 'helping' classes.

"Starting this fall, the administration said it would place job-recruitment centers in public-housing complexes where many young black and Latino men live, retrain probation officers in an effort to reduce recidivism, establish new fatherhood classes and assess schools on the academic progress of male black and Latino students."

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. And they need help.

Many students graduate high school and can't put a sentence together -- not because of poor teachers, but because of a lack of respect for education. Same with once highly-respected trades. If this helps improve the lives of black and Latino males, I'm all for it, tax break or not.

[DrunkenBoat]

19. What would help the lives of black & latino males is the same thing that helped

the lives of irish, polish, italian, eastern european, etc. males. Living wage jobs & a culture of equality.

When the division of the surplus is highly stratified, no amount of remedial 'help' will produce anything but shit.

People understand at a gut level the power structure under which they live. A culture of equality produces free people. A culture of inequality produces corruption, crime, toadies, and despair.

A culture where two billionaires are doing social programming = a culture of inequality. The outcome of this will be shit, just like all the rest of their crap.

[jwirr]

20. That sounds like a good program. I have always thought that it

would be a good idea to create transition blocks in public housing to give support to students and families in working through their problems. Encourage neighbors to assist each other in building routes to success.

Edited: #19 you may be right about the inequity but considering that things do not look like they are going to get better any time soon something will need to be done to survive. My sister and I knew a young black man who was in prison for something that a white man would have been given a slap on the hand. We wanted to help him. Both of us are old enough to be his grandparents. We knew him through our children.

We started writing him in prison. Let him know that our family would welcome him home encouraged him to work on anger management. Talked to him about how much his children (two little boys) needed him in their lives. Discussed his relationship with his own family and encouraged him to support his mother with his little brother. Then we started talking to him about his talents. He is a fantastic artist. We talked about how he could use this to earn a living.

Last I heard - he is doing wonderful. That is not us - it was him thinking about what needed to be done to make sure he did not end up back in prison. I also sent anger management books and jobs training books when he asked about them. His prison did not have any of this material available. Yes, he is not as rich as Bloomberg and he never will be but I think he is content with being able to be of importance to his family. We are extremely proud of him.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Bloomberg should get on the horn to his billionaire compatriots, the Koch Brothers

and tell them to take their boots off the necks of the workers.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Bloomberg could run for President

Third-party candidate. At this point, he'd have a good shot at winning. At the very least, he'd force elected Democrats to get up off their asses and DO SOMETHING.

[Kennah]

15. Oh hell no! He should run as a Republican!

Can't you just imagine the Teahadists going even more bat shit crazy? They'd start eating their own.

[SpiralHawk]

21. Tell it to the RepubliBagger obstructionists

sheesh

[murielm99]

22. I agree with him. n/t

[Broderick]

23. So is he saying trickle down stimulus

will work eventually if we keep trying???

Everyone household could have received a check for 12K for the last one and this one proposed. 12000!!!! But, it needs to go through the robber barons at a clip of 300K per job created to make it "right". ufta.


All nonsense to me.

GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO THE PEOPLE and watch the jobs created. Quit filtering it and siphoning it through donors.

[jwirr]

24. Absolutely. And as a rethug I would guess he is into trickle down.

[Broderick]

27. Likely right at the top of the

fucking food chain. Fucking thieves.

Pardon my language. Just disgusted at the outright theft and corporate wall street bank welfare going on in this country. They are converting the populace, the 99 percent to mere peasants and serfs.

[amborin]

25. K&R

[RagAss]

28. Will they be allowed to smoke during the riots?....jerk !