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Hey, Oblahblah got a Nobel Peace Prize about 10 days in to his term. Looks like the OP thinks de Blasio is in the same league.
I agree.
President Obama is currently jumping on the Income Inequality bandwagon after his dismal fail of Obama Care. Under is tenure as President millions of Americans were or slowly slipping into poverty, while a quite small few of Americans were ever making more and more money. I do belive in the fight against income inequality but since Obama jumped on the topic of income inequality, I'm going to leave that alone now! As a New Yorker income inequality topic is and was the only thing I agreed with Bill de Blasio and I have been saying for quite sometime on this forum for the past couple of years!
President Obama is currently jumping on the Income Inequality bandwagon after his dismal fail of Obama Care. Under is tenure as President millions of Americans were or slowly slipping into poverty, while a quite small few of Americans were ever making more and more money. I do belive in the fight against income inequality but since Obama jumped on the topic of income inequality, I'm going to leave that alone now! As a New Yorker income inequality topic is and was the only thing I agreed with Bill de Blasio and I have been saying for quite sometime on this forum for the past couple of years!
Has anyone watched the de Blasio inauguration? I know little about this new mayor but that ceremony appeared to be very low-class performance in my opinion, with the departing mayor sitting in front of the audience while speaker after speaker speaking ill of him, who not only did an unparalleled job for $1 annual salary but also gave his own $650 million to improve his city (again see 12/30 NY Times article "Cost of Being Mayor? $650 Million, if He’s Rich"). Now that is called commitment, as Bill Clinton termed it--thank goodness to perhaps the only speaker at the inauguration who gave Mayor Bloomberg due recognition for his achievement.
Many may not like his bans, but hopefully when some get cancer (God forbidden) they'll be able to appreciate his concerns and efforts--at the cost of being called a "nanny mayor". Show me another mayor who did more real stuffs for public health than Mayor Bloomberg did.
I watched the inauguration and more than a few parts of it literally made me cringe. For starters, I was never aware that I lived on a plantation, but I suppose that's good to know And Letitia James using that little girl from the NY Times series on youth homelessness as a political prop was particularly nauseating.
As with all things de Blasio I'm hoping that his rhetoric is merely a sign of him being a shrewd politician, and he proves that he can govern effectively. So far so good, but it's still way too early to judge.
President Obama is currently jumping on the Income Inequality bandwagon after his dismal fail of Obama Care. Under is tenure as President millions of Americans were or slowly slipping into poverty, while a quite small few of Americans were ever making more and more money. I do belive in the fight against income inequality but since Obama jumped on the topic of income inequality, I'm going to leave that alone now! As a New Yorker income inequality topic is and was the only thing I agreed with Bill de Blasio and I have been saying for quite sometime on this forum for the past couple of years!
The Affordable Health Care Act didn't fail. It's available now.
It somewhat does address income inequality. A huge percentage of the country worked for small businesses that did not insure them and where they had no hope of medical benefits. If an uninsured person gets on medicaid, their income has to be under $800 and they have to have less than $2k in their bank account. So that basically said people from small businesses should only work part time and have little savings. At least this way people who work for small businesses can now have medical insurance.
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