New York City is lucky it got ripped off hundreds of millions of dollars in the CityTime scandal, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning.
Mr. Bloomberg’s argument was that because the fraudsters agreed to pay the city back $500 million after being hounded by federal prosecutors and the city’s Department of Investigation, the project of modernizing the municipal payroll system ended up being a bargain.
“That whole system cost us something like only a 100 million dollars and it should have been many times that,” he said. “We were lucky because of the fraud. And in the end it turned out, because of the recovery, we saved a lot of money.”
The mayor arrived at this topic after defending the city’s much-maligned 911 system, which has been barraged with reports of dysfunction and shutdowns. Mr. Bloomberg compared the two cases and maintained the system was working just fine.
“When was the last time you heard a complaint about the basic accounting system for the municipal workforce that has something like two thirds of all municipal workers on it? None one. Not one complaint,” he said, latter adding, “It certainly works and this 9/11 system certainly works as well. Will there be glitches? Computer systems all the time have glitches. Nothing’s perfect.”
A little 4 year old girl died during one of those 911 system "glitches".
Bloomberg's response?
Oh, well - what can you do? Nothing's perfect...shit happens...
I'm sure he believes his own b.s. here that the CityTime fraud was awesome because it ended up saving the city money and the new 911 system is working swimmingly despite the half dozen crashes a day it's been having and the dead 4 year old who just might have been saved had the system worked like it was supposed to work.
He's clearly delusional and divorced from reality at this point in his life and I wouldn't be surprised to see him diagnosed with some kind of disorder or dementia in the coming years.
The mental stability of mayor Bloomberg needs to be seriously considered. As his power dwindles he certainly has made repeated questionable comments that question his mental condition. The mayor appears to have a bunker mentality when responding to life and death issues confronting New Yorkers with regards to any inference that his policies are not protecting citizens.
ReplyDeleteHe refuses to admit mistakes or problems. It's pathological, but even worse, much of the corporate elite press is so busy sucking up to him that they refuse to admit or acknowledge these problems too. Bill Keller, Michael Wolff, et al., so busy lapping at Bloomberg's ass they cannot see the truth. One only hopes that if there is some big 911 failure, it's Bloomberg himself or lapdogs like Keller and Wolff who suffer the consequences. Alas, it inevitably will be some poor New Yorkers who through no fault of their own will be abandoned by the system.
DeleteIt's a good thing those kids who didn't know English failed those tests, because this year they know English better and thoroughly learned the material. Wait a minute, you're closing my school? And I'm fired?
ReplyDeleteBloomberg is God, at least according to himself and his lapdog press. So whatever he says goes!
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