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发帖数: 11530 | 1 Mayor Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street 'Trying To Destroy the Jobs of Working
People'
By Harry Siegel Fri., Oct. 7 2011 at 9:23 AM
Mayor Bloomberg fired a warning shot Friday at the city unions who have
backed the Occupied Wall Street protests, saying "we're not going to have
money to pay our municipal employees" if the financial sector takes a hit
and New York's tax take goes down with it.
"Everyone's got a thing they want to protest, some of which is not realistic
," Bloomberg said. "And if you focus for example on driving the banks out of
New York City, you know those are our jobs ... You can't have it both ways:
If you want jobs you have to assist companies and give them confidence to
go and hire people."
"The protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this
city aren't productive," Bloomberg said in his weekly radio appearance with
John Gambling. Taking a swipe at "some of the labor unions participating,"
Bloomberg added that "their salaries come from - are paid by - some of the
people they're trying to vilify."
That resembled a refrain protesters have frequently aimed at the police: "my
taxes pay your salary."
"What they're trying to do is take away the jobs of people working in the
city, take away the tax base that we have," Bloomberg said, adding that the
protests could impact tourism. "We're not going to have money to pay our
municipal employees or anything else."
Asked directly if the city had an end game for the protests or would let
them continue indefinitely, Bloomberg, who a week ago suggested that the
clock was running, avoided a direct answer today:
"We are trying to deal with this is a way that doesn't make the problem grow
and protects everybody's rights... we're trying to let this -- not 'play
out,' that isn't quite the right word, but let them express themselves."
"The one thing I can tell you for sure," he said earlier in the interview, "
is if anybody in the city breaks the law we will arrest them and turn them
over the district attorneys." |
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