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NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg: Jobs Crisis Could Cause European-Style Riots

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The current fiscal crisis in America has at least significantly spooked one of the nation’s most important municipal figures. During his weekly radio address, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg took a minute to warn those in power that the current jobs crisis could lead many disaffected to riots similar to those in Cairo and Madrid– a situation resulting from economic damage that “will go on for many, many years.”

According to the NY Daily News, the address on WOR Radio argued that the increasing difficulty for recent college graduates in getting jobs could lead to riots in America. “You have lots of kids graduation college, can’t find jobs… that’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kinds of riots here,” Bloomberg argued. In Madrid and Cairo (as well as Athens and, to a lesser extent, London) the riots seen were partially caused by the desperation youth felt at double-digit unemployment numbers in nations where the government had a significant hand in providing school and job efforts.

Arguing that the damage to recent college graduates in this country “will go on for many, many years,” Bloomberg painted the situation as extremely urgent, though appreciated President Obama’s efforts to fix the problem. “Everybody’s got to sit down and say we’re actually going to do something– and you have to do something on both the revenue and the expense side,” he advised, adding that President Obama “at least got some ideas on the table,” giving politicos a start on fixing the problem.

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  • Anonymous

    Nanny Bloomberg is the guy who said the Times Square bomber was probably somebody upset about Obamacare , implying the Tea Party .

    Miguelito . The rioters that you are talking about were Muslim ‘youths’ for the most part .

    What Obama is doing is playing games and demagoguing . And that’s no secret , even to you .

  • Anonymous

    Ain’t nobody gets themselfs a college degree and then riots because they can’t find no job .

     Once again Bloomberg has come up short .

  • Anonymous

    Way to go with the preemptive pep talk jerkoff.

    You, like your Azshole buddy obama always seem to know just what ( Not ) to say.

  • Anonymous

    Ya, the riots will be from union goons and entitlement junkies. Just like Beck has predicted for a couple years now.

  • ObamaSux

    The only riots will be riots by liberals demanding more things for free.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

    “NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg: Jobs Crisis Could Cause European-Style Riots”

    Well, that’s an old prediction. Glenn Beck was mocked for saying the same thing.

  • Moderate

     the increasing difficulty for recent college graduates in getting jobs could lead to riots in America.

    These are the same kids that thought it would be cool to have a black president. Welcome to reality kids.

  • Silicondoc

    LMAO – tea party basher BILLIONAIRE lib god.
    The queefing smell of criminal elite libtard is so strong a local AGW bubble has been produced.
    -
    ” Everybody’s got to sit down and say we’re actually going to do something ”

    YOU AND BARKY HAVE YOUR DEM CONGRESS HAD 2 PLUS YEARS AND SHOVEL READY WAS YOU AND BARKY AND EVERY OTHER LIBTARD SHOVELING A STEAMING PILE OF SHIT DOWN THE USA THROATS.

    I don’t think letting you fucktards do it again is very wise.

  • Anonymous

    Damn, and I thought the libs would riot if the NFL season was cancelled.

  • Anonymous

    Next time speak English.

  • Silicondoc

    The Wisconsin capitol raid was only a warmup for the I only get 3 vacations a year and half the year off and twice the average workers salaries and benefits with a rock solid tenure union job security and 3 generations grandkids taxes retirement package…

    Oh man – what a fucking snowjob they pulled on the USA.
    -
    I remember hearing how poor gov workers were – how they couldn’t be attracted because of the horrible low wages and on and on… and now I realize it was just Biden and Barney and Teddy talking shit and the MSM respewing their masters wishes like fucking egor would -  while they cranked up 80% more than anyone else to way over 100% more…
    -
    Man, professional lying machine – we are so fucked.

  • Norbit

    It’ll be the spawn and leeches of the government-dependent, Democratic Welfare State against the rest of us!

  • Norbit

    It’ll be the spawn and leeches of the government-dependent, Democratic Welfare State against the rest of us!

  • Anonymous

    “In Madrid and Cairo (as well as Athens and, to a lesser extent, London) the riots seen were partially caused by the desperation youth felt at double-digit unemployment numbers in nations where the government had a significant hand in providing school and job efforts.”

    Much like what Obama wants to do in America.

  • Ralph

    First, he tells you you can’t have a gun.

    Then, he schedules some riots.

  • Anonymous

    NO SAFETY NETS= BURN BABY BURN

    HOW TO DESTROY A DEMOCRACY
    Put Conservative Republicans in Total Control of your government
    Since 1980, they had control of the Executive for 20 years, the Senate for 18 years, the House for 12 years and a Total Control for 6 horrid years that decimated our Housing Industry and the World Financial Industry while increasing the transfer of Wealth and Income to the top few.

    FACT CHECK
    In 1980, 1% owned 20% of total Financial Wealth and 43% in 2009
    In 1980, 1% took 10% of individual Income and 20% in 2009..
    In 1980-2009, the top 1% had a 281% increase in after tax income and the middle 20% had a 25% increase or below the rate of inflation for a cut in income.

    Today:
    5% own 62% of Net Wealth
    80% own 15% 62/15
    20% own 93% of Financial Wealth
    80% own 7% 93/7
    25% get 67% of Individual Income
    70,000,000 get 13% 67/13
    That Score is 222/35

    That ratio is like distribution of $100 with 20 having $86 and 80 having $14
    or each of the 20 have $4.36 and each of the 80 have $0.17

    Inequality? What else can one call it? $4.36 to $0.17 is disgraceful and will end our Democracy
    Since 1980, it has been a deliberate policy implementations by conservative republicans
    who believe if you shift wealth upward it will increase the wealth of those below.
    Increase the wealth at the top will create huge numbers of jobs.
    FACT CHECK
    2001-2009 had a huge increase in wealth and Income of the top 10%.
    The job creation was lowest since Hoover.
    Since 1980, the three conservative presidents created 99,000 net new jobs per month or just enough to cover new entries into the work force. They took over in 1981 when job creation had been 218,000 per month. Those three initiated our involvement in ten foreign conflicts in which tens of thousands of innocents were killed. They destroyed our Savings and Loan Industry; created a Monopoly in banking where today ten banks control 80% of the deposits in all 7600 banks; created a worldwide financial disaster by deregulating the Casino Derivative Of America; destroyed our housing industry by allowing the big banks to, willingly, finance junk loans to millions who could not afford them. They increased the Fannie-Freddie maximum amount they could pay for mortgages from $300,000 to $729,000.
    This allowed the banks to promote $500,000 plus mortgages for more profit on the securities they sold worldwide as triple A values. Profits were huge. Fraud was huge.

    The Congress and the White House are reluctant to indict their campaign fund sugar daddies on Wall Street. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ BUYS $$$$$$$$$$$$ ANYONE
    clarence swinney mad mad mad mad at Inequality in America

  • caconservative

    Bloomberg hollers about the loss of jobs while welcoming, and protecting illegal alien parasites. This clown epitomizes hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    That’s fact.  Forever memories of BushDrunk & Gang.  The gift that keeps on giving.

  • Anonymous

    MAYOR BLOOMBERG,
    YOU…are a riot!!  As the Mayor of New York City, you are attempting to instill fear in Americans.  If you have a riot in your city….take care of it.   That is YOUR job.  Your job is NOT to threaten or incite Americans.  If you can’t handle it….resign or shut up.  Get this through your thick Progressive or Marxist head.  Americans do not fear anything with your spitting up Obama’s talking points.  Americans see through every false statement that comes from you, Obama or George Soros.  We are not stupid to fall for your fear tactics or “call for violence,” nor are we blind to see that you are pushing Obama’s Jobs’ Act.  Bloomberg, this is my country, and I will make certain that anyone like you who is stirring up Americans to demean our nation…will be charged with TREASON.  Count on it!
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

  • Politixisadisease

    I’ll be the first to light the match in L.A. Im ready…screw the pee nation, screw the GOP, screw the rich. Its my turn to do the screwin.

  • Anonymous

    His constituents will take care of that soon enough. I just hope he leaves before they ‘break ground’ on the Mosque/cultural center @ Ground Zero.

  • Anonymous

    He’s an idiot.  No, perhaps a retard.  With no proof to back up the absurdness of his claims, he continues making baseless assumptions and accusations.  If there are riots in America, and that’s a big IF, it’ll be those union jackasses.  No matter how much he and his ilk want us to be like Europe, we won’t be.

  • Anonymous

    He’s an idiot.  No, perhaps a retard.  With no proof to back up the absurdness of his claims, he continues making baseless assumptions and accusations.  If there are riots in America, and that’s a big IF, it’ll be those union jackasses.  No matter how much he and his ilk want us to be like Europe, we won’t be.

  • http://twitter.com/WorldDivider Mark Prior

    The unemployment rate of college graduates is 4.3 percent.

  • L_Salazar

    I think the Mayor is just laying the ground work for some Federal Grant Money.  Afterall, it’s for the kids!

  • Thomas G Williams

    So you would charge people with treason for advocating that which you advocate against?

    ” I will make certain that anyone like you who is stirring up Americans to demean our nation…will be charged with TREASON”.

    Does talk of secession by REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVES qualify?????????????

    Do acts and actions in support or VOTER SUPPRESSION qualify????????

    Do persons advocating the ASSASSINATION of Judges and elected officials (by CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS) qualify??????

    Do calls for sworn military officers to refuse the orders of the CinC by CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS qualify??????

    Do calls from REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVES to take up arms against the Government qualify
    ???? THIS ONE IS AN ACTUAL ACT OF TREASON AS DEFINED BY THE CONSTITUTION.

    I could do this all day, but that would not matter to CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS like……YOU.

    You want people who do not say the things you want to hear to SHUT UP, well lady (AND I use that term loosely) I want you and those of your ill tempered ilk to STFU.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Attacking the public schools and those who are educated, and attacking the efforts to increase jobs???

    What a maroon!

  • Thomas G Williams

    FACT: 60 plus percent of the welfare state are uneducated white conservative un-wed mothers.

  • Thomas G Williams

    How so very raciest of you!

  • Thomas G Williams

    Like the right to vote just to name a “free thing” people will riot for??

  • Thomas G Williams

    You had no problem with republicans taking 5 weeks off while people are suffering but went bat shit crazy over President Obama taking 4 days off with his kids while he worked some part of every day of his family vacation.

    Something is wrong with the real double faced standard problem mentally deficient CONSERVATIVES have.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Thinning out “the liberal loser herd if they get out of control anyway.” is you advocating MURDER.

    This nation was founded by LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATICALLY minded people…Azshole.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Get some help you really need it, in so many ways you need it.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Every inch of GROUND ZERO is already planned for and I dont see no plans for MOSQUE on the site, me thinks thou art a CONSERVATIVE who speaks of that which ye do not know.

  • Anonymous

    Think what you want. I wasn’t talking to you.

  • Thomas G Williams

    WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST THE WORLD???

    Health care reform would be good for you that way you could get the mental help you desperately need.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Well I heard you, And FACTS are not what you want to hear.

  • Anonymous

    You’ll hear what you want to in order to start ad hominem and hyperbole. How do you know? You don’t. Go away. Pick on someone your own size.

  • Gorgegirl

    How do you know?  What are your sources?  If a person has just received a degree and they aren’t filing for unemployment because you can’t if you were a student, what source do you have to determine the number of unemployed?  Well, I know which end you took that figure from and it wasn’t from the “brain” end.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Provide proof of a planned mosque on the GROUND ZERO site.

    As for “ad hominem and hyperbole” you need to check the definition of the terms , you will find that it is what you are doing and that I am in fact countering exactly that by you.

    I took Latin and I passed it, or are you just being……Conservative? Showing off your required credentials by being willfully ignorant?

    they have a term that may be included in future dictionary definitions for people like your self: IGNORATTY CONSERVATAS. 

  • Norbit

    Why’d you bring RACE into it?

  • Thomas G Williams

    Because spawns and leeches were being maligned as well as democrats and I HAVE READ YOUR POSTINGS AND HOW YOU EQUATE BLACK WITH DEMOCRAT time and again.

    Satisfied???

  • Thomas G Williams

    Why are you using someone elses tag/handle/name, the real norbit has a picture you do not have that face on your post.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I think before long we will have riots in the streets.  The income disparity gap is getting larger and larger.  

  • Staci Luvs The Foreskin

    People who earn less are probably cut .

  • NDanielson

    This nation was founded by people who didn’t think the state owed you anything, dickbrain.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Actually they spelled out what the state owed you in the Constitution and they specified how the state was to deliver on those requirements and gave the state the authority to do just that, MEET ITS OBLIGATIONS TO THE GOVERNED.

    And if you are incapable of under standing the words and the intent of the founders in enumerating the powers of the government then you will just have to trust that they got it right and that it has the force of law to back it up.

  • Thomas G Williams

    What dose that mean?

  • Anonymous

    Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://tinyurl.com/3b97b99

    Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean they’re doing the jobs they want or were educated to do. It doesn’t mean that they’re earning what they expected to earn. If you’re doing the hiring, and all other things are equal, do you hire the college grad or the non-college grad?

  • Anonymous

    Yay! Another page in the Libs’ ‘Fear-Mongering 101 Handbook’
    1.) Neighborhoods will burn down if you don’t give firefighters a HUGE new contract
    2.) Streets will be crime-ridden if you don’t do the same for the P’lice.
    3.) Riots if you don’t pass OBAMO’s bill NOW!
    4.) Bridges will collapse if you don’t pass OBAMO’s bill NOW!

    Hahahaha at DIM LIBS. They are apoplectic with rage and out of bullets.

  • Anonymous

    That depends on where they went to school. Like if you went to CUNY, ferinstance.

  • Anonymous

    Those obligations are laid out in the 18 enumerated powers. Where among them do you see free shit for losers?

  • Anonymous

    Congress not being in session doesn’t mean they’re on vacation. And Obama’s vacation was 9 days, cut short a whole day by Irene.

  • Anonymous

    Is someone being denied the right to vote? Do people normally riot for things they already have?

  • Anonymous

    I’d love to see where you got that figure.

    On second thought, if you’ve seen one goatse, you’ve seen them all.

  • Anonymous

    You are a toad!

  • Anonymous

    Bloomberg:  I’m rich! I’m famous! I’m stupid!  

    Well, you can’t have everything, but two outta three ain’t bad.

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