Posted on 02/08/2015 2:17:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg harped on the importance of vocational education and blasted Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana as stupid Friday evening before a sold-out crowd at the Aspen Institute.
When an audience member asked the 72-year-old Bloomberg about Colorado marijuana, he responded that it was a terrible idea, one that is hurting the developing minds of children. Though he admitted to smoking a joint in the 1960s, he said the drug is more accessible and more damaging today.
“What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?” he asked. “I couldn’t feel more strongly about it, and my girlfriend says it’s no different than alcohol. It is different than alcohol. This is one of the stupider things that’s happening across our country.”
On education, Bloomberg said the U.S. should deliver the kind of schooling that will help people become self-sustainable and increase a sense of dignity. If a person has the option of going to Harvard or becoming a plumber, he said he would suggest thinking about the plumbing career.
“The Harvard graduate on average will never catch up to a plumber,” Bloomberg said. “Partially because the first four years — instead of spending $60,000, you make $60,000.”
Cities should create jobs that meet the skills of its residents, he said, not potential residents. In New York City, where $56 million tourists visit annually, Bloomberg said the hospitality and service industries are key. Though some might say those aren’t good jobs, he claimed that a waitress in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel makes $150,000 a year because of strong union negotiations. A waitress in a decent New York restaurant will make $50,000 to $60,000 a year, he said.
Bloomberg, who is now worth $36.6 billion, according to Forbes, said the poor in the U.S. need better education. By the end of his life, he said he’s going to write a book about why the poor remain poor.
“It’s always the poor that get screwed,” said the founder of Bloomberg L.P.
Moderator Jennifer Bradley, director of the Center for Urban Innovation at the Institute, then asked what the U.S. can do to get people out of poverty. Bloomberg responded that conventional wisdom points to education, but education isn’t going to help uneducated adults. Bradley later asked how government can offer basic fairness to the children “who have been failed.”
Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.
“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said. “They just don’t have any long-term focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”
At one point, the former mayor brought up New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices, which gained national attention in 2011. Bloomberg said that during his last year in office, a minister at a Baptist church in Harlem invited him to speak.
“While I’m sitting there waiting for him to introduce me, he said to his congregation, ‘You know, if every one of you stopped and frisked your kid before they went out at night, the mayor wouldn’t have to do it,’” Bloomberg said. “And so I knew I was going to be okay with that audience.”
Cause no one cares what that blowhole thinks, about anything?
The last mayor of our largest city, a huge media tycoon and one of the richest men in this country? C’mon! Next you’ll tell me that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don’t matter to the folks... They didn’t have him at the Aspen Institute to cater lunch.
We'll say they are democrats.
Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.
So what does this hypocrite do?
He wants to pass anti gun laws that will only affect law abiding adult gun owners.
No matter what group you or I belong to, be it age, race, creed or religion the SOB will lie to us. What is the ultimate goal of these control freaks?
And “sorry, the EBT cards don’t have money on them any more, guess you’ll have to find a job.”
Suprise, he who would criminalization soda pop would also oppose decriminalising pot.
My poor children. You were so beautiful when you were little. Cursed be the day that some ill advised person said, "Here, try this!"
What causes those who have abide with poor decisions, to want others to fall with them?
My poor, poor children. What a sorrow to see how you have fallen.
Self-induced mental illness.
>>“What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?” <<
“Damn, the democratic party is getting big! Good thing they are too stoned to vote.”
I am opposed to legalized pot. That said, I am MORE opposed to 72 year old nanny state would-be tyrants.
FUMB.
> ““What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?” he asked.
We’ll say they are democrats.
Just 5 -10 points lower? I’d say nearer to 15 - 25 % lower. And it’s a joke to own a gun and pull a trigger eh? I hope your bodyguardsc feel the same way when protecting your a$$ when you get mugged,,
It's different from, not different than.
Bloomburge is starting to sound almost conservative on some issues.
“On education, Bloomberg said the U.S. should deliver the kind of schooling that will help people become self-sustainable and increase a sense of dignity. If a person has the option of going to Harvard or becoming a plumber, he said he would suggest thinking about the plumbing career.
“The Harvard graduate on average will never catch up to a plumber,” Bloomberg said. “Partially because the first four years — instead of spending $60,000, you make $60,000.””
His education realisim alone is interesting.
> What is the ultimate goal of these control freaks?
What it has always been with every other tyrrany that has existed on earth - disarm to remove an opposing obstacle that stands in their way of achieving complete control over the herd they wish to fleece and enrich themselves withbeven further. Ironically after they disarm them they use the same types of weapons they removed from them to kill the dissenters first then the non-productive or useless next.
I am glad some of the left are fianly waking up to the folly of their experiment. You see how important State level freedom to experiment is? The left of our country have little to no memory, and are easly fooled by lies. They will either experiment with their states and people or they will experiment with our states and people. Let it be their states and people.
Parents of teens can and perhaps should leave states like Colorado and California.
“Just 5 -10 points lower? I’d say nearer to 15 - 25 % lower. And it’s a joke to own a gun and pull a trigger eh? I hope your bodyguardsc feel the same way when protecting your a$$ when you get mugged,,”
The man just doesn’t have a clue how unrealistic it is to implement such a policy, nor has the alternative of serous gun training occurred to him. When you teach kids from an early age to respect guns they are NOT a joke. This is what urban New Yorkers have forgotten but many more rural folks still remember. Guns are not going away people need to learn to live with them in their environment not naively try to suppress them and knowledge of the generousness of theses tools.
The parents and teachers of kids who are losing thier friends need to make sure its pressed into the surivers that if you treat life lightly this is what will happen to you.
“On education, Bloomberg said the U.S. should deliver the kind of schooling that will help people to speak English correctly.
It’s different from, not different than.”
This is a real problem of our time the lack of education in English is spiting this country and our economy in two. One half will forever be disadvantaged, the other half isolated and weaker. You cant come to this land expecting to enjoy its fruits while isolating yourself with a language only your group speaks. Nor can you expect as the left does that we will all speak your particular language.
English is the common lanauge of this land, much as it is also the economic language of the world. Learn it or get isolated and left behind economically. There is no excuse for refusing to learn.
-——”“What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?” he asked.-——
It will be said that the pot IQ defficiency has been mitigated by the ubiquitous availability of tablet computers that magnify productivity 20 fold
We'll say that IQ testing is racist, and that IQ can't be measured anyhow, and that as a society we must learn to value the Occupy cicle drummer as highly as a neurosurgeon, so government must step in to redistribute income.
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