{"id":4414,"date":"2009-02-02T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2009-02-02T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T17:17:34","slug":"when_someone_says_im_not_bluffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/when_someone_says_im_not_bluffing.html","title":{"rendered":"When Someone Says &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Bluffing&#8221; . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/02\/01\/2009-02-01_no_joke__ill_cut_23000_jobs_mayor_bloomb.html\">probably means they&#8217;re bluffing<\/a>. Just like you should instantly be skeptical whenever you hear someone introduce something with &#8220;To be honest . . .&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg insists his threat to eliminate 23,000 city jobs unless Albany comes up with extra cash is no bluff. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not bluffing about anything. We don&#8217;t have any extra money,&#8221; he said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor said Albany should divert a slice of money from the planned federal stimulus plan to support the city schools. <\/p>\n<p>If not, the layoffs could include as many as 14,000 teachers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be cataclysmic,&#8221; Bloomberg said. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor spent the weekend addressing church and synagogue groups, a school principals meeting and two Chinese New Year celebrations. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg used the events to push his call for more state aid and also to win support for his own bid for a third term at City Hall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a rallying cry for everybody that cares about public education,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;What you&#8217;ve got to do is call your assembly person, call your state senator, call the governor &#8230; say, &#8216;You just can&#8217;t do this. You work for us. You have to come through.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . it probably means they&#8217;re bluffing. Just like you should instantly be skeptical whenever you hear someone introduce something with &#8220;To be honest . . .&#8221;: Mayor Bloomberg insists his threat to eliminate 23,000 city jobs unless Albany comes up with extra cash is no bluff. &#8220;We&#8217;re not bluffing about anything. We don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}