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Re: "Low-income, immigrant neighborhood" subject of NYC budget cuts
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brad herschel
Jun 16, 2011, 8:31:25 AM6/16/11
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On Jun 15, 6:57 pm, Iconoclast <goldst...@nym.hush.com> wrote:
> Why don't they just call it what it is, i.e., a Third World, mostly
> immigrant shit hole city?
>
> http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/15/headlines#13
>
> New Yorkers Erect "Bloombergville" Tent Camp Against Budget Cuts
>
> New Yorkers are escalating protests against austerity measures
> contained in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest budget. In a major
> protest Tuesday, thousands of New York City union members rallied at
> City Hall demanding an end to layoffs and cuts to social spending. Sam
> Coleman is a third grade teacher at a public school in Brooklyn.
>
> Sam Coleman: "So, I’m here today to let the city council know, to
> let the mayor know, that these budget cuts and the layoffs that
> they’re proposing are totally unacceptable. I teach in a low-income
> neighborhood, mostly immigrants, and my school is going to lose
> funding. That’s going to eliminate after school programs, going to
> eliminate art programs, going to eliminate materials that we badly
> need, as well as teachers getting excessed or laid off. And my message
> to the mayor is very simple: you can find the money. There are many,
> many, many wealthy New Yorkers who do not pay enough taxes, and the
> revenue is there, the money is there. And our schools need the money,
> and you cannot balance this budget on the backs of our children or our
> parents or our teachers."
>
> More than 100 members of the group New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts
> have erected a tent camp next to City Hall and vowed to remain until
> Bloomberg reverses his proposals. Activists have dubbed the encampment
> "Bloombergville," recalling "Hooverville," the popular name for the
> shanty towns for the homeless during the Great Depression.
> Why don't they just call it what it is, i.e., a Third World, mostly
> immigrant shit hole city?
>
> http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/15/headlines#13
>
> New Yorkers Erect "Bloombergville" Tent Camp Against Budget Cuts
>
> New Yorkers are escalating protests against austerity measures
> contained in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest budget. In a major
> protest Tuesday, thousands of New York City union members rallied at
> City Hall demanding an end to layoffs and cuts to social spending. Sam
> Coleman is a third grade teacher at a public school in Brooklyn.
>
> Sam Coleman: "So, I’m here today to let the city council know, to
> let the mayor know, that these budget cuts and the layoffs that
> they’re proposing are totally unacceptable. I teach in a low-income
> neighborhood, mostly immigrants, and my school is going to lose
> funding. That’s going to eliminate after school programs, going to
> eliminate art programs, going to eliminate materials that we badly
> need, as well as teachers getting excessed or laid off. And my message
> to the mayor is very simple: you can find the money. There are many,
> many, many wealthy New Yorkers who do not pay enough taxes, and the
> revenue is there, the money is there. And our schools need the money,
> and you cannot balance this budget on the backs of our children or our
> parents or our teachers."
>
> More than 100 members of the group New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts
> have erected a tent camp next to City Hall and vowed to remain until
> Bloomberg reverses his proposals. Activists have dubbed the encampment
> "Bloombergville," recalling "Hooverville," the popular name for the
> shanty towns for the homeless during the Great Depression.
Seems that if we stopped the flood of "immigrants" the protested
conditions would
not exist.
Werner
Jun 16, 2011, 9:40:34 AM6/16/11
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The country is bankrupt. Triage is in our future.
http://www.EndIt.info/how.html
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