{"id":5791,"date":"2010-02-03T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2010-02-03T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T04:52:25","slug":"maybe_someone_can_help_us_understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/maybe_someone_can_help_us_understand.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Someone Can Help Us Understand . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Governor announces that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/gov_ny_deficit_could_reach_Z3UciTK8Faq1IUvANuo19O\">a $700 million deficit is now $8.2 billion<\/a> (how exactly did that just sneak up on everyone?) and the MTA announces that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/02\/03\/2010-02-03_mind_the_400m_gap_even_with_cuts_mta_reveals_it_faces_multimillion_dollar_budget.html\">they&#8217;re actually $400 million short of what they need for this year<\/a>, the mayor is donning a hardhat to build his big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/for_21_billion.html\">one stop<\/a> on the 7 train. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/bloomberg_heads_underground_for_VNKRAwfpbhHYyOhDLL44oI\">Totally fucking unbelievable<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg said he hopes the $2.1 billion subway extension &#8212; funded by city taxpayer money &#8212; will lead to a spate of economic development on Manhattan&#8217;s West Side.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the mayor cared a little less about shit he can put his name on and more about fixing potholes or, god forbid, keeping the city&#8217;s budget balanced (or doing his part to ensure the financial well being of the state) maybe he&#8217;d really be a leader. But until then he&#8217;s just like the rest of the glory-hogging politicians that have come and gone and done their part to make living in New York really fucking onerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Governor announces that a $700 million deficit is now $8.2 billion (how exactly did that just sneak up on everyone?) and the MTA announces that they&#8217;re actually $400 million short of what they need for this year, the mayor is donning a hardhat to build his big one stop on the 7 train. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","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=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}