Two things:

The first is a question. Was Bloomberg blonde before he lost his hair?

The second is an observation. Bloomberg's company provides data and news to the financial industry. The financial industry is the cause of the world wide recession... Just sayin!

What needs to be done here is cut back the hours of the mayor and his city council. They obviously have too much time on their hands.

Maybe New York State can borrow from California and New York can hit up LA for some loans.

Sort of an interstate Ponzi scheme.

Ahhnold might go for it.

I thought it was Bernie Madoff who 'made off' with all the money Fred.

From the article:

'"Nanny state. We don't need any more nanny state people can take care of themselves. We don't need the government to take care of us," said Patrick Keenan of Hell's Kitchen.

The city says it doesn't want to eliminate salt in food, just go back to the levels found during the 1970s.'

Who would have thought that Satan salts in Hell's Kitchen?

Where's Dante when you can have Hell freeze over?

I thought this winter was doing a pretty good job of having Hell freeze over.

Hey Kate what is the temperature in Saskatchewan today? Or do we need to order up another big blow for all those Y2Kyoto enthusiasts cheering on global warming.

Weather for Hells Kitchen, New York, USA

-1°C
Current: Clear
Wind: SW at 11 km/h
Humidity: 54%

wadda ya know Hell's Kitchen is actually freezing over! Maybe they need a rainmaker in Hell's Kitchen to make money fall from the sky.

Fortunately, they have the actors church:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Malachy%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church

Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church is located in Hell's Kitchen. Now there is some irony for you folks.

Pray hard and the "Divine Rainmaker" will make money fall from the sky. Now there is a plan that you can actually believe in.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

Laugh all you want at the state of the individual states......but just wait.

Just wait until two central Canadian provinces are unable to meet their pension obligations.

Nobody is talking about it, but Ontario and Quebec are going to be in serious trouble in the not so distant future.

Arguably, Canada's best run pension plan, the Ontario teacher's fund has had to jack up premiums collected from working teachers just to meet their obligations.............so what is the real state of provincial and municipal pension plans?

I know one thing to be true....I, and my children, and many many others will fight tooth and nail to stop these trough wallowers from forcing us to pay for these unearned, outrageous entitlements.(just because one drives a snowplow for 25 years does not earn one a generous pension for life....sorry, get out your cat food recipes)

To the best of my knowledge, most of the salt present in prepared food is intended as a preservative. Even frozen foods need it, because they may become unfrozen while being transported from manufacturer to retailer.

I think it was back in the `60s that sodium benzoate was heavily used as a preservative. Although it still is to some extent, sodium chloride is now thought to be safer.

In essence we traded a possible danger of cancer for danger of circulatory accidents.

Unless you have high blood pressure salt consumption is a non-issue.

I'm sick of these aging lefty Boomer narcissists imposing their medical problems on the rest of us.

Didn't we have a similar episode a few years back when some nanny-stater tried to pass a law forbidding restaurants from serving eggs over-easy?

Cue Dennis Leary's rant from Demolition Man...

Sprockets "Rockin to something" weirdness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsuN7yHPvIk

does anyone in n.y. give a shit about this crap.

Why are they always fighting the wrong foes?
The influential people of all sorts should declare a war on MSG, sugar substitutes and fluoride. What's so sacred about those that no one wants to touch them with a 10' pole?

While the greedy Wall Street crooks in his city have multi-handlely destroyed the worlds economies, and his city is in financial straits, this dumb shit do-gooder is solving the problem of too much salt in the diets of people.

God, you just can't make this sh*t up. Talk about fiddling while your city is burning Mayor. Idiot!

It is obvious that the City of New York needs a budget increase, not cuts. They can create a salt monitoring bureau within the Mayor’s Office and staff it to the 9’s creating sustainable employment for years. And why stop at salt monitoring. There are lots of causes that can be pursued in this manner. Think of it as a mini stimulation package.

Lets hope he is not considering something like a fluorescent bulb monitoring and replacement for instance could require hundreds of people in a city the size of New York. It is replacing old infrastructure with new. I think it would fly with his constituency.

I can hardly wait for the study on second hand salt.

We get the government we deserve:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/pact+long+overdue/1233693/story.html

The bus strike just over in Ottawa brought about the worst display of public anger and political grandstanding you could ever imagine.

The Mayor and Council pandered to the 79% of Ottawans who do not use public transit and so who did not care if the service was ever brought back, fire them all, privatise the service etc.

The other 21% who use the transit system (me included) just wanted the service restored at any cost as long as this cost would be spread over all city taxpayers.

The result was a 51 day strike that accompished nothing but misery and was ended only when the parties agreed to binding arbitration for the outstanding issues. This was brought about by Premier McGuinty's intervention who appreantly calling Harper to ask him to get involved with back to work legislation. (OC Transpo is under Federal jurisdiction due to its routes to Gatineau.)

The 79% praise Mayor Larry O'Brien for standing tall to the Amalgamated Transit Union. The 21% can't believe all the pain was caused for nothing. The populace absorbs all the extra costs of taxi, driving, parkung, walking and of the arbitrated settlement!

We get the government we deserve, eh.