Mayor Bill de Blasio, Commissioner William Bratton tout lower crime rates

WABC7 ^ | January 5, 2015

[maggief]

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio touted new crime statistics Monday, one day after members of the NYPD once again turned their backs on him.

The mayor spoke with police commissioner William Bratton, hailing big drops in the murder and robbery rates.

At the funeral of officer Wen Jian Liu Sunday, some officers turned their backs when de Blasio spoke, claiming the mayor doesn't have their back amid growing anti-police sentiment, despite a memo from Bratton asking the officers refrain from acts of protest.

De Blasio has tried repeatedly to close the divide.

"Rather than get lost in the daily back and forth by the loudest and most disrespectful voices, those that have been so loud in recent weeks, let's talk about where we need to go as a city," he said. "Let's talk about a positive vision. Let's talk about what the people of this city want us to do together."

[SoFloFreeper]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No need to touch the pensions. There is absolutely no reason for a guy who was promised a pension in exchange for work should lose any pensions.

Spoken like a government-employee union-goon collecting $100,000 a year in pension and benefits.

Those pensions were contracts agreed to by people who, on both sides, were going to get taxpayer-paid, non-funded pensions, meaning they will be coming straight from tax revenue. The taxpayers were not involved in the agreement. The taxpayers did not agree to fund them, you agreed among yourselves that the taxpayers should fund them.

Even that Commie SOB Franklin Delano Roosevelt was against public-sector unions and their pensions.

Those pensions are going away someday, like most of the financial fraud being perpetrated. Look up geometric expansion. That's what's going to happen to your pension. The promises are going to far exceed what is even possible to come up with.

You can cheat the taxpayers, but you can't cheat the math.

[miserare]

Mutt and Jeff—the cop’s worst enemies.

[napscoordinator]

Spoken like a government-employee union-goon collecting $100,000 a year in pension and benefits.

It does not matter the amount. They did what they promised by working for as long as they needed to in order to get the pensions. They earned the pension. The tax payers live in the place where they received the benefits of having the workers doing the jobs they did. You don’t have to like it but basically the workers are getting screwed even after the contract was signed with promises. It is theft and should not be tolerated especially from christian conservatives.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You can argue all day, but the math is not going to change.

You do know what math is, right?

[napscoordinator]

We have enough money to cover the pensions. Some just don’t want too. Seriously we are the richest country in the World and people have tons of it so we will not run out of money.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If you want a pension, pay into an insurance fund all your working life. That's the right way to do it.

The stupid way to do it is to plan on government taking the money at the point of a gun from the people who earned it and giving it to you.

And as far as that promise goes, you didn't actually consult the people you expect to pay it. You just agreed among your government-employee selves that the taxpayers were going to pay for it. The taxpayers didn't make the promise. You made it for them.

[vette6387]

“We have enough money to cover the pensions. Some just don’t want too. Seriously we are the richest country in the World and people have tons of it so we will not run out of money.”

Please let me know where you got the stuff you are smoking. Either you are stoned, or your psychiatrist doesn’t know you are out on your own. In any event, you seemingly have no concept of where money comes from!