The Editorial position of the NY Post gets more confusing to understand everyday. Today, Michael Goodwin penned an excellent (and accurate) piece on the spending habits of Mayor Bloomberg and NYC. It's a must read for Urban Elephants on what NYC taxpayers face in the near future...
THE weather in New York has been unseasonably warm, and I have a theory. The temperature is rising because politicians are blowing hot air about the budget mess. As usual, they are all heat and no light.
Their promises to cut spending conceal as much as they reveal. Despite the dire warnings of doom, nary a mention is made of trimming the workforce. It is a sacred cow, no touching allowed.
...which starts the discussion about how we've allowed ourselves to be in such a dire financial situation here in the Big Apple. He goes on...
This is not cost-free compassion. You lost your job at the bakery or the bank or the car lot? Tough luck. Your taxes went up to support government workers.
That was the "solution" last spring, when the city and state hiked taxes by $13 billion, despite getting a federal stimulus bailout.
Mark this prediction: Tax hikes will be the outcome this time, too, even though Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg swear they won't do it again.
...which is a great point to make. Bloomberg, as UE has outlined again and again, will lie to everyone about this point. Yet, the Post (on page 1 today) somehow seems to have forgotten this clear trend by the billionaire Mayor. Here's David Seifman's kool-aid inspired piece about the "tough decisions" that are supposedly about to be made...
Mayor Bloomberg is considering the steepest one-lump budget cut since the post-Sept. 11 economic crisis, The Post has learned.
Faced with a $5 billion projected deficit next year, mayoral aides are discussing how to achieve savings of about 10 percent in the $66 billion budget for fiscal 2011, sources told The Post.
Later this month, Bloomberg is scheduled to unveil the latest modification to this year's budget.
At about that time, he's also expected to release a letter from Budget Director Mark Page directing commissioners to produce options for a double-digit cut -- which would be the most ever requested in a single lump since 2002.
...what "cut" happened in 2002? I'd really like it if someone pointed out where the budget was EVER cut under this Mayor's rule. From what I have reviewed on the City's budget publication website, the budget went from $41.5 billion in the 2001-02 cycle to $44.5 billion in the 2002-03 cycle. Where was the "cut" these writers are imagining occurred?
The election is over and the Main Stream Media continues to express this fantasy of Bloomberg being a "prudent fiscal manager." Fortunately Mr. Goodwin is writing about the truth a few pages later, but when will FACTS start to be relayed by the media at large? How about some real reporting on this topic, rather than buying "hook-line-and-sinker" the press releases sent out by the Administration?
The "crisis" will be used, as Rahm Emanuel said about the Federal "crisis," to push a Left leaning agenda by both Mr. Bloomberg here in the City and by Mr. Paterson and his supporters in Albany. They will both increase taxes AND spending and continue NY's collective local governments on their collision course with economic reality.
Republicans need to use these attempts to advance their radical agendas as a rallying cry. We need to fight back at all levels - using that momentum on this very unpopular issue to drive a few wins in next years very important election cycle...
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written by Behold a Pale Horse , November 11, 2009
They strike me a paper that now just wants to preserve the post-Giuliani status quo (i.e. low crime) without sticking its neck out. They don't think the GOP has any real future in NYC. You all remember who they backed in the 2002 elections?
Their decline might explain why the New York Sun found such a niche with conservative New Yorkers (yes, we are in minority).
written by Behold a Pale Horse , November 11, 2009
Just found this, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi...on-lawsuit
written by Jay Golub , November 11, 2009
I'm not sure I'd buy what is in that lawsuit and/or connect that to the wierd change in editorial slant by the Post, but it seems odd to me that a paper that used to be the paper of fiscal restraint (at least compared to the other existing NYC daily papers) has moved itself to the political center-Left on spending at a time when the country and NY Voters are growing increasingly frustrated with deficit and wasteful spending and the taxation that it takes to support such activity.
In my view, it will hurt their readership...
written by Behold a Pale Horse , November 11, 2009
Dawn Eden wrote about her experiences working at the Post in a book review for the Wall Street Journal, http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110008001
Dawn was told when she gave an interview about her Christian faith that she should not mention that she worked at the Post. Not only is this insulting, it sounds illegal and discriminatory.
Elsewhere, she noted that some Post editors had a fear that the paper was perceived as too "right-wing."
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