Mayor Bloomberg helped to destroy the future of the New York City schools by agreeing to allow teachers to retire seven years earlier, a decision that will suck money out of the classroom year after year for decades. But now he wants to make it up to us, by having New York City taxpayers foot the bill for a project to make it easier for middle and upper middle class New Yorkers to leave the city and its local income tax behind and move to New Jersey, where the kids could get an education. According to the New York Post “Mayor Bloomberg is pushing forward with a proposal to extend the No. 7 train to New Jersey and get the project locked in before he leaves City Hall in two years.” Even as the rest of the NYC subway collapses due to soaring debts, and other retroaction pension enhancements passes some years earlier.

Revenge is Sweet Department: Occupy Albany comes out swinging for the Millionaire's Tax. Good for them!

As I said before: truth by its very nature is controversial. And since my first column with this title, I have had to defend a president of whom I have been critical at times; and with whom I disagree on quite a wide range of policy-approaches and position-takes in both foreign-policy and domestic spheres. Look; I am a man who loves to give Jack his jacket and Jim his gym shoes: thus I must give President Barack Obama his props (as they say in the hood).

Memo to OK Occupy Wall Street (and Occupy Albany): The Governor tried to fuck you; will you now at least endorse the "Millionaire's Tax?

Remember, revenge tastes sweet at nearly any temperature.

Did anyone expect that, with nothing left to hold over his head, Joe’d get any less annoying?

Apparently some of the same issues are present in Europe as in the United States, but across the Atlantic someone has been willing to call them out. According to the Financial Times, commenting on the young taking to the streets from Spain to New York, “politicians have…largely failed to address the issue of intergenerational equity.” While the young protesters are criticized for demanding the redistribution of income “in reality, many policy choices over past decades have themselves been redistributive – in favour of the baby-boomer generation at the expense of their children and especially towards the privileged top end of that generation.”

Right wing kooks, probably the most intolerant people on the planet, are pointing an accusatory finger at the Occupy Wall Street protestors and charging them with being anti Semitic.  This is probably quite a hilarious accusation considering that many of the protestors are themselves Jewish and in fact organizers celebrate Jewish holidays at their park location.

Yes, I'm sure if I went over every single word, I'd find something here to annoy, if not infuriate me, in this Phil Ochs song, but right now I'm so happy I just have to link this–"I believe, the war is over!" The War Is Over – Phil Ochs www.youtube.com Uncategorized