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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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1 posted on 09/30/2013 3:36:09 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

With your help and obama’s we will be thank you!


2 posted on 09/30/2013 3:37:02 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (What you get when you refuse to vet)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Look like? Since Obama WE ARE!


3 posted on 09/30/2013 3:37:37 PM PDT by prisoner6 ( FREEDOM!)
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overthrow


4 posted on 09/30/2013 3:37:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No, Bloomie.

It’s the now estimated 21 trillion in debt that makes your country look third world.


5 posted on 09/30/2013 3:37:55 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

but not 30 mil illegals and Somali Jihadis based in the USA????


6 posted on 09/30/2013 3:38:03 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Tailgunner Joe

well that will bring us up from where Obama has put us at 4th World...


7 posted on 09/30/2013 3:38:19 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tailgunner Joe

New York City IS a third world country!


8 posted on 09/30/2013 3:38:28 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Banning certain drinks makes us look like a third world country.


9 posted on 09/30/2013 3:38:30 PM PDT by Viennacon
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Dont say theres no such thing...

Obama is magical...

he can manage it...


10 posted on 09/30/2013 3:39:11 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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No, you blooming idiot .. odungheap has accomplished that almost single-handedly.


11 posted on 09/30/2013 3:39:44 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well Bloomberg has taken delight in making us look like a communist country so what gives him the right to complain.


12 posted on 09/30/2013 3:39:44 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No. I think a President who submits a budget his own party could not stomach, a President who single-handedly changes the very law he signed into law, and a President who insists on Soviet-style central planning using Executive Orders makes us look like a banana republic.


13 posted on 09/30/2013 3:41:00 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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Opposed to a police state?


14 posted on 09/30/2013 3:42:43 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“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.”

Hey Bloomie where have you been? Welcome to the Obamanation. It’s been like that for almost 5 years.
Lying, psychotic liberals!


15 posted on 09/30/2013 3:43:36 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Oil is organic.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

To the statist, the most horrible vision imaginable is the absence of the state.


16 posted on 09/30/2013 3:43:40 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

So does telling your citizens what they can and can’t eat, Mikey.

Go somewhere and sit down.


17 posted on 09/30/2013 3:44:34 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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“This will hurt all of Washington”

Ah, things are looking up already.


18 posted on 09/30/2013 3:45:05 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: Tailgunner Joe; All

19 posted on 09/30/2013 3:45:48 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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20 posted on 09/30/2013 3:46:11 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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