Article

2016-05-09 Home Front: Politix

Bill de Blasio: Feds Aren't Bailing Out 'People of Color' in Puerto Rico

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-09 03:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1
"By the way, brothers and sisters, do you think by any chance it could be because they’re people of color?"

Nope. You've got the cart before the horse. IIRC when bailout talks were running for NTC back in the Seventies, the NY Post ran a front page with the (Ford) administration's position - Drop Dead. Is Mr de Blasio implying only some white people grasp fiscal responsibility?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-05-09 06:10|| 2016-05-09 06:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Arithmetic be white.

Posted by SteveS 2016-05-09 10:28|| 2016-05-09 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Fuck off you pandering shit. NYC will be where Puerto Rico is financially soon enough.

And it will be partly the fault of your honky ass.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-05-09 10:48|| 2016-05-09 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 As Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson said in Hamburger Hill, "I Am Not Your Brother..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-05-09 11:10|| 2016-05-09 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 This is a good example of how bad ideas get implanted, then grow like cancer.

Affirmative action was sold as a way to right past wrongs. Once that idea took hold, we moved on to white privilege. Now whites can be asked to endure anything, and everyone else gets a free pass on everything. Not even slavery was so insidious.

Posted by Iblis 2016-05-09 11:17|| 2016-05-09 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 In what manner is this any of his business? Fuck off, Bill - you have other things to worry about.

Posted by Raj 2016-05-09 11:38|| 2016-05-09 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 First rule of Advertising & PR: When you don't like what they're saying about you, change the subject. This is Billy Dee's clumsy attempt to throw off the hounds from his own scandals.

Posted by regular joe 2016-05-09 12:19|| 2016-05-09 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Arithmetic be white.
I'm pretty sure it's Arabic.

Affirmative action was sold as a way to right past wrongs.
Ummm...I believe it was a strategic economic policy proposed by Johnson's Council of Economic Advisors to boost the income of the tax paying classes faster than generational population growth.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-05-09 12:30|| 2016-05-09 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 According to Bloomberg, hedge funds hold $15 billion of the Caribbean island’s debts.

Hmmmm. Whassamatter, Bill? You wouldn't have put some of your own money into some of them hedge funds would you?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-09 12:56|| 2016-05-09 12:56|| Front Page Top

23:43 Thing From Snowy Mountain
23:34 Thing From Snowy Mountain
23:21 Raj
23:14 Thing From Snowy Mountain
21:03 P2Kontheroad
21:02 chris
20:57 phil_b
20:55 M. Murcek
20:49 M. Murcek
20:48 P2Kontheroad
20:33 Barbara
19:52 Jan
19:08 charger
18:47 Deacon Blues
18:31 BrerRabbit
18:27 49 pan
18:22 49 pan
18:20 49 pan
18:14 49 pan
18:14 Barbara
18:05 JHH
18:01 Raj
17:58 Raj
17:38 trailing wife