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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
I can't just yet.
I wish I could.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Practice makes perfect! I don't get much of chance to speak with either beggars or tycoons, though . . . .
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2011-09-21 17:37, Woland wrote: In a funny melancholic way that is just too true.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Move to NYC. Only beggars or tycoons live here.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I would LOVE to live in NYC. But as I am neither a beggar nor a tycoon, it's not to be.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Quite true, landmark! At least if you are talking about Manhattan, the proportions of the indigent and the wealthy in Manhattan are far higher and the proportion of the middle class far lower than in most cities. But the paradigm is wearing thin:
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For a decade, the Bloomberg paradigm has held the city together: Wall Street riches fund an expanding bureaucracy that promotes social liberalism and nanny-state green politics. Indeed, Wall Street’s fortune — guaranteed by federal bailouts and monetary policy under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama — has been the key to the mayor’s largely self-funded political success. Under Bloomberg, Wall Street’s profits allowed city expenditures to grow 40% faster than the rate of inflation. Bloomberg was also able to buy political peace by bestowing raises two to three times the rate of inflation on the city’s unionized workers. |
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