{"id":5074,"date":"2009-07-02T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2009-07-02T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T12:00:20","slug":"only_the_best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/only_the_best.html","title":{"rendered":"Only The Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see the mayor &#8212; especially after all that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/are_nazi_comparisons_inevitable_too.html\">hyperventilating<\/a>! &#8212; make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/07\/02\/2009-07-02_albany_stalemate_will_cost_city_60_million_per_month.html\">another empty threat to lay off employees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Senate stalemate will cost New York at least $60 million a month, Mayor Bloomberg warned Wednesday &#8212; and the sudden budget hole may cost some city workers their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make no mistake about it, any less revenues mean fewer employees, because the city&#8217;s budget is basically hiring 300,000 of the best people that anybody&#8217;s ever put together and paying them,&#8221; Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t have that money, it&#8217;s going to hurt everybody.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But seriously &#8212; &#8220;300,000 of the best people that anybody&#8217;s ever put together&#8221;? What&#8217;s with the sarcasm? Has the mayor beaten himself down, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see the mayor &#8212; especially after all that hyperventilating! &#8212; make another empty threat to lay off employees: The Senate stalemate will cost New York at least $60 million a month, Mayor Bloomberg warned Wednesday &#8212; and the sudden budget hole may cost some city workers their jobs. &#8220;Make no mistake about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","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=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}