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Mayor Bloomberg: Government Shutdown Threat Makes Us "Look Like A Third World Country"
nydailynews.com ^ | September 30, 2013 | Erin Durkin

Posted on 09/30/2013 3:36:09 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Mayor Bloomberg said Congress is making the United States “look like a third world country” by threatening to shut down the government this week. DSC_5290.JPG “This is an outrage. They cannot hold the country hostage. This is just plain and simple politics,” Bloomberg said in response to questions about the impending shutdown Monday morning.

“This is going to be devastating to all of Washington. It’s devastating to this country,” he said. “We look like a third world country. It’s going to hurt our economy. It leaves businesses up in the air in terms of making investments.”

Bloomberg said that while Obamacare isn’t a perfect bill, it passed fair and square and should be implemented.

“We’ve for a long time had an enormous problem with healthcare. It’s going to bankrupt us unless we figure out a ways to do something about it,” he said. “I don’t know that this is the perfect bill. It was written by committee. I would have done some things differently. But at this point, it was passed by a majority and we should put it in and see if it works.”

He singled out the health insurance exchanges set to start this week as a promising part of the bill.

“What has to happen here is the public has got to call their senators and congressman and say you just cannot do this. We will not tolerate this and will make you pay the price at the polls,” he said.

“If you want to have an ideological battle there’s plenty of forums for that. And there’s plenty of things that probably could use reform and there probably are things that we could spend less on, but you don’t do it by paralyzing the government,” Bloomberg said.

“And in terms of the healthcare thing, you had a chance to vote against it. The public wanted it. Now I think we’ve gone so far down the road it would be a sin not to try it and see whether it works, and if it works, great, if it doesn’t, you can always fix it.”

While blasting the possibility of a shutdown, Bloomberg downplayed the immediate impact it would have on city government.

“At the beginning it really doesn’t hurt us,” he said, adding the pain would grow if a shut down stretched on. “We’ve talked to every one of our agencies to make sure to the extent possible we can either substitute for what the federal government is doing on a short term basis or learn to cope and figure out how to keep people in the city safe. So it’s not great for anybody.”


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; newyork; newyorkcity; obamacare; zerocare
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Trying to mandate personal consumption of soft drinks and salt makes you look like a tin pot Caribbean dictator, Mayor Bloomingturd.


41 posted on 09/30/2013 4:59:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
HEADLINE: Mayor Bloomberg : Government Shutdown Threat Makes Us "Look Like A Third World Country"

There. I fixed it.

42 posted on 09/30/2013 5:09:18 PM PDT by Gritty (We are quickly running out of "boxes"...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

NYC is run like a Turd world country.

Pray America is Waking Up


43 posted on 09/30/2013 5:18:01 PM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Who cares what this gun-grabbing midget has to say about anything?

Wish he would move to his house in Bermuda and stay there.


44 posted on 09/30/2013 5:53:22 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: Jonty30

We are a third world country.


45 posted on 09/30/2013 6:28:01 PM PDT by vortec94
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Don’t worry New York will be anyway once the Marxist gets elected Mayor.


46 posted on 09/30/2013 7:01:50 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Viennacon

In third world countries, they say, “this action makes us look like we are Americans”.


47 posted on 09/30/2013 7:13:56 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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