So now Bloomberg wants to be president. What is it about the insatiable power-hunger of plutocrats?<\/p>\n
What’s he going to run on?<\/p>\n
Rising poverty and homelessness rates in NYC under his tenure?<\/p>\n
Closing St. Vincent’s?<\/p>\n
Big tax abatements to his developer friends?<\/p>\n
Allowing foreign businesses looking to spin-and-rinse money via condo purchases that make housing costs for actual NYC residents prohibitive?<\/p>\n
One thing he CAN run on, however, is allowing the New York City Opera to fold, because that dovetails with the anti-culture zeitgeist that the right wing has been hard at work on for more than three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So now Bloomberg wants to be president. What is it about the insatiable power-hunger of plutocrats? What’s he going to run on? Rising poverty and homelessness rates in NYC under his tenure? Closing St. Vincent’s? Big tax abatements to his … Continue reading