Kyle Smith at the NY Post argues in an article that the living wage bill that is being debated in the Council would kill jobs at a time when jobs are scarce, especially in places like the Bronx. As evidence, he references the Kingsbridge Armory, which all but died when local politicians and some community groups insisted the deal include a living wage for all future employees at the site. That cost the borough over $300 million in investments and thousands of jobs both during the construction and for years after. One very telling quote he includes is from Councilman Lew Fidler, a liberal Democrat from Brooklyn. He said, “I think the problem that many of us have with the [living wage] bill is that we all like it in principle [but] the fact remains that that same principle guided our decision on the Kingsbridge Armory, and it’s still empty. Who am I to tell someone that no job is better than a job that doesn’t pay a quote-un-quote living wage?”
Politicians are forgetting about people!
ReplyDeleteMore government please? No Thanks!
ReplyDeleteKyle Smith is absolutely right.
ReplyDeleteBecause of irresponsible pols like Ruben Diaz Jr, Bronxites have been pushed to their economic limits – and beyond. I still can't believe that a man him is borough prez
ReplyDeleteLiving wage billl? Nothing could be more wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe New York City Council is a cesspool of misguided and contradictory policies.
ReplyDeleteOh sure, a so-called living wage ...what crap.
ReplyDeleteBx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. = architect of failure
ReplyDeleteGuess what: Half of America is officially poor & most of the Bronx is too. But the city council & Bronx boro prez are too busy sucking up to anti-business unions to care one lick about getting real people real jobs right here & right now. Who the hell do they think they are? Who do they work for? Something is really wrong here!
ReplyDeletei wish these these politicians would just stop nannying us
ReplyDeletesooner or later the current political consensus will break down
ReplyDeleteRESEARCH QUESTION:
ReplyDeleteIn 1905, NYC Mayor George B. McClellan appointed F.K. Pendleton to chair the City Beautiful Committee. Does anyone know what ever became of that committee?
Mayor McClellan's daddy (also named George B. McClellan) was the general who reorganized the Union forces at the start of the U.S. Civil War, and ran unsuccessfully against the incumbent President Lincoln in the election of 1864.
ReplyDeleteAs for the "City Beautiful Committee," who knows?
Actually, that panel was called the City Beautiful Commission, but its name was later changed to the New York City Improvement Commission. The commission was concerned with city planning matters involving highways, parks and public buildings.
ReplyDeleteIt was not until the City Charter revision of 1938 that the present Department of City Planning, with the City Planning Commission at its head, was established.
The Bronx is poor but not the elect officials who represent the poor borough. Look at the Borough presidents salary and his top paid staff. That money can save 10 senior centers,after school programs. Get rid of the 311 borough presidents office. 311 is doing there job.
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