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January 28, 2005
Toilet Paper? Ask the Jets
The NY Times:
Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert points out that the City and State have no extra money to spend on anything, except for the Jet's "Bloomberg Boondoggle."
But if there's any justice at all, this stadium will never see the light of day. To take the public's money, which should be used for schoolkids, for subway riders, for hospital patients - for any number of projects that might truly serve the public's interest - and hand it over to a billionaire who will use it as seed money to further his already fabulous interests is obscene.
NoLandGrab: A year of government cutbacks is not the time to be throwing away public money to further enrich favored developers. The Mayor is apparently isn't worried that his willingness to push these projects through at any cost will blow his chances at reelection, despite the fact that the Democratic candidates have honed in on this issue and are circling like sharks around chum.
Posted by lumi at January 28, 2005 5:58 PM