The Devil Wears Marshalls

The emperor has no clothes, a wolf in sheep's clothing, and the Devil wears Marshalls. ¶ Welcome to my citizen journalist blog. ¶ "All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words." -- Harvey Milk ¶ "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Following 8 years of the Bush administration and 16 years of Republican rule in New York City, many people are just plain fed up with the Republican mishandling of the public's business. Bush has left this country deep in a financial hole, and all of his wars are compounding the debt situation. In each of Bloomberg's 8 years in office, the Rent Guidelines Board has raised our rent. And any time that the MTA has wanted to raise our fares, it's been allowed to do so. For how many years has Mayor Bloomberg operated the city without anybody (aka an effective City Council) standing up to him ? Whenever he has needed to cut from the city budget, Mayor Bloomberg has chosen to close firehouses -- instead of cutting corruption. Mayor Bloomberg has managed the city's fiscal affairs by borrowing money. The gaps in our city budgets are always measured in the BILLIONS. No matter how low we have spiraled into a financial bind, Mayor Bloomberg has always found the money to advocate for more sports stadiums. We were lucky that Presidents are not allowed to serve more than two consecutive terms, but somehow, Mayor Bloomberg has managed to "bend" the laws and run for a third term -- to keep doing more of the same. We are tired of the continued political and social inequalities that never seem to end. Term limits are the law because it is the will of the citizens, and people are wondering why are our mandates going ignored. Why do people no longer have power and freedom in politics ? We work hard, pay taxes, let the Mayor borrow money in our name, but yet our votes don't count ? We are becoming disenchanted and disenfranchised. But we know how to reverse course, and we've seen it done. Last year, the nation as a whole voted for change by electing a Democrat for President. The success of the rest of American in overthrowing Republican rule is encouraging. We have Barack Obama in Washington. Now, we need a Barack Obama for New York City. No third term for Republicans !

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