(Bloomberg) Mayor Differs With Bush on Social Security Changes

[struggle4progress]

<snip> "I've never thought that privatizing Social Security made a lot of sense," said Mr. Bloomberg, who, like Mr. Bush, is a Republican. <snip>

He added, "These are not monies that people should be speculating with." <snip>

With the former City Council minority leader, Thomas V. Ognibene, vowing to run against him in a primary this year, Mr. Bloomberg faces two potential Republican opponents who are questioning his commitment to his party. At the same time, Democrats running for his job are criticizing him for being too close to the president, which they say they believe could hurt his standing with the overwhelmingly Democratic general election voter pool. <snip>

At an appearance at the Stein Senior Citizen Center in Manhattan, Mr. Weiner rejected the president's plan as risky, unnecessary and something that would drive many of New York's eventual retirees into poverty. Mr. Weiner, representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens, has painted Mr. Bloomberg as too close to Mr. Bush in the past but did not link Mr. Bloomberg to the Bush plan. <snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/nyregion/04bloomberg.html

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Title should read: "Bloomberg strives for Re-Election"

[still_one]

7. read "blood on the street"

written by someone who voted for *, and also says it would be a terrible mistake

[Renew Deal]

2. Difference between Bloomy and Bushco

Bloomberg can add and run a business. Bush, well. Start at Arbusto and work your way to today.

[elsiesummers]

3. Bloomberg licked his finger and stuck in the wind...

He's a politician who will say anything to retain his grasp on power. We will never know what Bloomberg really thinks about Social Security, and since he has no say in it doesn't really matter.

Bloomberg acts like he is king of NY and I'd bet he'd someday like to be President.

Do Not Trust This Man.

He is trying to pit burrough against burrough on his garbage dump plan. It is evil and wrong and irresponsible - and while he claims to be doing the environmentally correct thing - he does not care about the health and well being of his constituents.

He just likes winning.

The way he autocratically overruled City Council and School Boards, early on, regarding failing out students was a perfect example of the man who would be king.

I never saw Giulliani act like this (and I don't particularly like Giulliani, but at least he is human).

Bloomberg will say anything that is good for Bloomberg.

[baby_bear]

4. Give Bloomberg a break, as a big city mayor

Despite whatever else you may dislike about him, he, along with other city mayors across the country, Republican, Dem or whatever, are realizing more and more that the Bush administration is out to bankrupt cities by "starving the beast."

I actually think this is an opportunity for the Dems to seize the high (moral amd fiscal) ground, and we need every friendly mayor and governor we can get.

If the states bail on the Bush Social Security plan, it won't happen.

This is also taking place, mostly below the radar, on an environmental level, as the local governments realize that the Bush administration is attempting, and to some extent has already succeeded, in limiting federal pollution controls and putting the onus of human health and environmental toxics emissions on the states and local governments.

I think this will be Bush's downfall, as he pushes the states to the breaking point. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the microcosm of our country, i.e., California and Schwarzenegger.

b_b

[elsiesummers]

6. It's sort of like Castro calling Bush "derranged"...

Just because Castro is right doesn't mean you want him on your team.

If you saw up close and personal...some of the crap Bloomberg is pulling (he really is corrupt and immoral and I'm not saying this lightly...if you took a look at the thousand page plus garbage document you would realize he is as evil as Bush) you would not want him on your side.

Bush is wrong about Social Security but the Dems will win this fight without the likes of the evil Mayor Bloomberg.

[EC]

5. Oh Yeah, the PARTY OF THE BIG TENT?

Republican opponents who are questioning his commitment to his party


We all know they all have to toe the party line, how on earth were they able to sell that farce of a convention? Oh...Yeah, our oh, so, responsible MEDIA......:grr:


We've really got to do something about the Media, it really burns me what they did to Kerry and for *

[sweetheart]

8. when the plan goes down, the big cities will be left caring for their own

Of course bloomberg, to retain any semblance of representing the
interests of 18,000,000 people in NYC metro, needs to consider who will
be paying for all the elderly persons who wind up on the streets when
it all goes south. bush and his crime gang will long be gone in a
tax haven somewhere, whilst the majory cities will have to make up
massive financing gaps on their lonesome.

Good to hear he's representing someone... at the very least, we should
expect that remotely; just a little; even from a republican.