NYC congestion charge is blocked

danny burstein wrote:
> In <f7o7p7$hrj$1@reader2.panix.com> steveo@panix.com (Steven M. O'Neill) writes:
>
>> I'm not aware of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Bridge.
>
> My mistake. It was the Brookyn-Battery Bridge.

Unless you're coming from an alternate universe where Robert Moses got
*everything* he wanted, that's a tunnel, not a bridge.

On Jul 23, 1:47 pm, VINCE <Holvbph...@> wrote:

> No one who thinks NYC should be a state is a fool. Get away from some of
> the kooks in Albany like Joe Bruno might be the best thing for NYC.

It was our very own Sheldon Silver (the Assembly Speaker from Wall
Street) who single-handedly killed both our chance at the Olympics and
congestion pricing.

danny burstein wrote:
> In <1185222306.583795.263680@22g2000hsm.. com> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@> writes:
>
>> On Jul 23, 1:47 pm, VINCE <Holvbph...@> wrote:
>
>>> No one who thinks NYC should be a state is a fool. Get away from some of
>>> the kooks in Albany like Joe Bruno might be the best thing for NYC.
>
>> It was our very own Sheldon Silver (the Assembly Speaker from Wall
>> Street) who single-handedly killed both our chance at the Olympics and
>> congestion pricing.
>
> You say that like blocking the Olympic boondoggle
> was a bad thing.

I didn't want it myself, but I think it should have been the city's
choice to make.

For every time Albany nannies the city in the right direction, you can
bet it nannies the city in the wrong direction a few times.

On Jul 23, 12:29 pm, "george conklin" <geo...@nxu.edu> wrote:
>
> You forget NY City is not a state unto itself, although fools like to
> think it is or should be.

As David Letterman once said, "NYC, Third Planet From The Sun."

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:25:06 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@> wrote:

>On Jul 23, 1:47 pm, VINCE <Holvbph...@> wrote:
>
>> No one who thinks NYC should be a state is a fool. Get away from some of
>> the kooks in Albany like Joe Bruno might be the best thing for NYC.
>
>It was our very own Sheldon Silver (the Assembly Speaker from Wall
>Street) who single-handedly killed both our chance at the Olympics and
>congestion pricing.

Peter's right about this. Silver often harms NYC's interests as much
as anybody, yet clowns keep sending him back.

On Jul 31, 12:11 am, jdoe <j...@> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:36:55 -0400, VINCE <Holvbph...@>
> wrote:
>
> >AND lets us not how Ronny boy mucked us up after the 1984 election
>
> please elaborate? ronny boy presided over the beginning of some of the
> best economic times this country has ever seen,

Of course. You plunge the nation into massive debt, and it's as if you
have a license to print money.

Remind us what happened on October 19, 1987?

On Jul 31, 1:02 am, jdoe <j...@> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:18:45 -0400, VINCE <Holvbph...@>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >jdoe wrote:
> >> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:36:55 -0400, VINCE <Holvbph...@>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>>AND lets us not how Ronny boy mucked us up after the 1984 election
>
> >> please elaborate? ronny boy presided over the beginning of some of the
> >> best economic times this country has ever seen,
>
> >OH a fan..........After NYC didn't vote for him in 1984 Ronny BOY did
> >mucked us over by cutting funds to our fair city that is a fact!
>
> >Best times OH you mean for the rich?
>
> Oh my the big bad rich doing well bothers you,eh?
>
> you are a fool of fools, nyc might not have voted for him, but
> surmise, surprise, NYC is quite insignificant in a country of over 300
> million.

It was not a country of over 300 million in 1984.

> Ronny did not screw over NYC and you have provided no proof that he
> did.
>
> You can be sure that the rich have done well with this longest
> economic expansion in the history of the US continues,
> in addition to the so called rich, just about every level of income
> earner in this country has made out quite well.
> only the losers in life, maybe people like you, who were unable to get
> on board.-

Learn some economics, fool.

On Aug 1, 7:22 am, "George Conklin" <georgeconkl...@>
wrote:
>
> Let us take a company which is NOT in NYC. GM announced yesterday a profit,
> but from its international operations, not domestic ones. The announcement
> was at headquarters in Detroit. But Detroit did not generate the profit,
> but parts of the company outside the USA. The profit came from outside the
> city. Ditto for NYC.

Ditto for Wall Street in general, according to the Money Honey.

"JohnAnon" <JohnAnon@nyc.> wrote in message
news:1185974097.761586.125060@22g2000hsm. ...
> On Aug 1, 7:22 am, "George Conklin" <georgeconkl...@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Let us take a company which is NOT in NYC. GM announced yesterday a
profit,
> > but from its international operations, not domestic ones. The
announcement
> > was at headquarters in Detroit. But Detroit did not generate the
profit,
> > but parts of the company outside the USA. The profit came from outside
the
> > city. Ditto for NYC.
>
> Ditto for Wall Street in general, according to the Money Honey.
>

Just because the stock is traded in NYC does make NYC a generator of wealth.
If the stocks are traded in London, it does not mean London created the
wealth. And what if they are traded on line? Is the server the creator of
the wealth? Of course NOT.

On Aug 1, 10:46 am, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
> In <1185974097.761586.125...@22g2000hsm.. com> JohnAnon <JohnA...@nyc.> writes:
>
> >On Aug 1, 7:22 am, "George Conklin" <georgeconkl...@>
> >wrote:
>
> >> Let us take a company which is NOT in NYC. GM announced yesterday a profit,
> >> but from its international operations, not domestic ones. The announcement
> >> was at headquarters in Detroit. But Detroit did not generate the profit,
> >> but parts of the company outside the USA. The profit came from outside the
> >> city. Ditto for NYC.
> >Ditto for Wall Street in general, according to the Money Honey.
>
> Companies with multi state, and doubly so for
> those that are multi-national, are very adept
> at making a profit in their operations in low
> tax neighborhoods, and losing money in high
> tax zones.

Making what really count is the number of employees.