{"id":3993,"date":"2008-11-20T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2008-11-20T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T14:46:58","slug":"watch_me_unravel_ill_soon_be_naked_lying_on_the_floor_ive_come_undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/watch_me_unravel_ill_soon_be_naked_lying_on_the_floor_ive_come_undone.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch Me Unravel I’ll Soon Be Naked, Lying On The Floor I’ve Come Undone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Bloomberg, illustrating his near-peerless ability to helm the ship in the midst of stormy, uncertain weather<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Call him Mayor Doomsberg.<\/p>\n

In rat-a-tat fashion on Wednesday, Hizzoner: <\/p>\n

– Warned city workers they are in danger of being laid off. <\/p>\n

– Defiantly told homeowners not to count on property tax rebates. <\/p>\n

– Ordered city thermostats turned down as temperatures hovered near freezing. <\/p>\n

“Wear a sweater if you’re chilly!” the mayor advised city workers — before threatening them with unemployment. <\/p>\n

“You’re trying to plan, if you’re a city worker, whether you’re going to have a job. You have to start worrying about that and plan,” Bloomberg said. “There’s an awful lot of the 300,000 municipal employees who have got to start worrying about their jobs.” <\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Bloomberg also said the city won’t send out $400 property tax rebates until he’s sure the city can afford it, despite his budget director’s admission on Monday that the Council has to approve the decision. <\/p>\n

“I understand exactly what the Council said. We issue the checks. And this is not something that’s going to be decided by litigation,” he said, referring to a suit filed by several Council members to force him to send the rebates.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayor Bloomberg, illustrating his near-peerless ability to helm the ship in the midst of stormy, uncertain weather: Call him Mayor Doomsberg. In rat-a-tat fashion on Wednesday, Hizzoner: – Warned city workers they are in danger of being laid off. – Defiantly told homeowners not to count on property tax rebates. – Ordered city thermostats turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}