Mayor Bloomberg: "We'll See" If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue

[meegbear]

​New Yorkers need "to help the banks" was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's message to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show.

"The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the bottom line," Bloomberg said, presumably meaning service workers on Wall Street, adding that "we all" share blame for taking on too much risk, not just the financial industry.

"And people in this day and age need support for their employers. If the banks don't go out and make loans we will not come out of our economic problems, we will not have jobs so anything we can do that's responsible to help the banks do that is what we need."

Asked if there's an "end-game" for the protesters and if they will be allowed to stay in Zuccotti Park, which is privately owned but open to the public, Bloomberg said, "We'll see.

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/mayor_bloomberg_28.php

The banks need our help!!1!

[bullwinkle428]

1. Like Bloomberg is really concerned about people making $40K a year.

:eyes:

[roguevalley]

11. fuck bloomberg. since when does he get say on what happens?

oh wait. he has a few bucks ...

[MadrasT]

2. Horsefeathers.

No they most certainly are not protesting against people who are making $40-$50 K and struggling to make ends meet. (Though I know a metric f*ck ton of folks who would be tickled to have a job making $40-$50 K / year.)

And if Bloomberg thinks that's the bottom line... epic FAIL.

[gort]

3. "Mayor Bloomberg, the protesters are revolting!"

Bloomberg: "They certainly are!"

[Shandris]

4. Wow...that takes some fucking gall...

That jackass is literally calling for people to resort to violence to PROTECT THE BANKS?!? If you drive off the protesters, the banks will be SO GRATEFUL that they'll give you a loan? What fucking planet does this imbecile live on?!

:nuke:

[ixion]

5. Nice try at a strawman, Bloomie, but no dice.

And this "it's all our fault" thing is utter rubbish.

[joeybee12]

6. Bloomberg is full of shit...knr

[gratuitous]

7. Send in the tanks to protect the banks

Michael's concern for the robber barons is touching, and his estimate of the people being protested is off by only a factor of 10 or so. Wotta humanitarian!

[Me.]

8. "New Yorkers need "to help the banks"?

No wonder his poll numbers keep taking a dive. I will be so glad when that cheater is out of office

[jwirr]

9. The only help I want to see them get is to break up their too big to

fail corporations into individual banks again.

[Javaman]

10. still a mystery to me how that ass hat got "reelected". nt

[NYC Liberal]

12. We had term limits - voted for twice by the people - until Bloomberg got the city council to

overturn them with no public input. The city council had its term limits extended too.

Then he spent over $100 million of his own money on the campaign. Bill Thompson, the Democrat, spent $7 million.

Even after all that, he just barely squeezed in with only a little over 50% of the vote.

[Me.]

15. Then...After Cheating His Way Into A 3rd Term

He said we should have term limits

[Aerows]

13. No they aren't

They are people who are protesting against people who evade justice and a systemic corruption that has seized Wall Street and our government by way of campaign contributions.

People aren't dumb. They know that there is a separate system of justice for the wealthy, the powerful and the connected vs. the normal little folk. When that happens, there really is no such thing as justice because you are a nation of men, not of laws, which is what the Constitution was designed to prevent.

[PETRUS]

14. Agreed

Things are getting so far out of whack that even some of the fairly comfortable, establishment-type, Republican-voting people I know are dusting off and using their own (built-in, we all have one) bullshit meters these days...

[Gin]

16. since we killed that guy in Yemen...I think the threat level is

elevated and I figured they will end the protest for national security reasons....convenient!!!!!!

remains to be seen....

[PETRUS]

17. Hadn't thought of that, but

I wonder if such heavy-handed techniques will backfire. Today it seems possible that sort of thing might only galvanize the people. I hope.

[OhioChick]

18. What a load of horse shit n/t

[girl gone mad]

19. What an idiot.

"If the banks don't go out and make loans we will not come out of our economic problems"

Yeah, that's just what we need.. more debt! :eyes: