Friday, January 30, 2009
Why Rudy Was Such A Rotten Mayor
0 commentsGiuliani: Corporate plums help keep NYC afloat
A sad, and embarrassing truth.
Rudy Giuliani was a prime mover in establishing this arrangement. Upon becoming Mayor, he found a trend and turned it into a full-blown dependency, which we're still trying to recover from.
Rudy killed everything "small." Loved everything "big." Starved the independent arts scene in favor of the institutional arts world. Fostered the explosion of commercial rents so that small businesses died every day, opened the door to gigantic chains and mega-everything (based outside of the city) which ate up all the space, driving rents and prices through the roof for the mom-&-pop stores and the residents of the city. Large development, pushing billions of dollars through the corporate/financial system = good; any type of moderate-to-affordable plan for average folks in the city = bad.
Rudy cut the financial industry every break he could think of, and they contributed handsomely. He helped them turn a city awash in cash into a financial spa.
Thank you, Rudy.
Now, shut up and go away.
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