Maybe I should have been more direct. Illegal is exactly what I meant in my reference to people who have "no business being here."
Bloomberg, who is one of the greatest capitalists of his generation (having spent most of his life making money on Wall Street, and founding Bloomberg Financial), will be pretty surprised to hear that he is Marxist.
I don't care what his background is. He's a freaking Marxist in his capacity as mayor of New York. You'll probably find the same emotional pathology at work inside the head of that other "great capitalist" right across the river -- Gov. Corzine of New Jersey.
One of the great ironies in this country is that Big Government is often only rivaled by Big Business when it comes to its anti-capitalist bent. It's no coincidence that this kind of crap has become increasingly common in New York City, where major corporations of all kinds (from Wall Street brokerage houses to the New York Times) negotiate steep tax abatements that no small business owner would ever be permitted to avail himself of. (FYI -- this is one reason why the commercial rent tax is still in place despite Rudy Giuliani's 1993 campaign promise to eliminate it.)