Ditch King Bloomberg

We do not agree with the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ‘plans announced earlier this year to cut day care and after school programs for close to 50,000 children’ we say have mercy on poor New Yorkers especially the defenseless children.

We here in why did you join the union believe that is a huge number of children to be denied day care and after school programs. It is very discomforting when King Bloomberg championed that the big banks are too big to fail in 2008, we know the excuse then was to rescue the financial system. Now as our political leader who bends the rules to get in his third term, he should champion children’s causes especially those lofty ones but don't hold your breath. 

We remember King Bloomberg and his ‘anti’ transportation commissioner had a vision of the city as some sort of new Copenhagen, where bicyclists flood the streets and automobiles, buses and trucks are rarities banned from many of our thoroughfares. We know Copenhagen is a charming place designed long before the internal combustion engine could even be conceived of. However Copenhagen is also a tiny city one that unlike massive New York City can be walked end-to-end, side-to-side in a matter of hours. Maybe Copenhagen’s charm is enhanced by the bicycle culture but our communities and local businesses cannot afford to fall victim to yet another one of King Bloomberg’s euro-fantasies.

We in here in why did you join the union know that King Bloomberg, keeps on plotting on how to undermine TWU Local 100 we understand that with his infinite plans in closing streets, radically changing the traffic pattern, eliminating parking spaces and selling it as some sort of wild chance that folks will bicycle over to lounge away their days on a tiny patch of grass alongside the buses, traffic and noise of New York City. Also get this send those New Yorkers an annual bill for the upkeep of this wacky ‘park’, what should we think? However when he plots against countless defenseless children, we say no more cuts.

We think that the future of our children should not be sacrificed on the altar of King Bloomberg’s two-wheeled craziness or warped ambitions paid for with the blood of already put upon New Yorkers that continue to suffer.