Nurse Bloomberg is, it seems, upset with America’s naughty, naughty electorate:
“If you look at the U.S., you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate—they can’t read,” he said. “I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here, only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is.”
Bloomberg’s wealth may be enormous, but compared with the vastness of his arrogance and the immensity of his self-regard his fortune amounts to little more than a few nickels. Amazing.
Nobody knows what China is, and apparently Bloomberg doesn't know what the Fed is.
Doesn't Bloomberg realize that, if there is to be a currency war, then it has been started by the highly educated elites at the Fed, not by the incoming, knuckle-dragging hillbilly inbreds who won't take their oaths* until January?
*I'm sure Bloomberg thinks that most of them will be unable to recite the oath and will have to simply scrawl their marks.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRemember: Bloomberg is the kind of "moderate" the GOP is told it must pander to no matter the cost.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse__This nicely frames the 'Ruling Class' vs. the rest of us knuckle draggers quite well.
All this high mindedness and civility from a guy who wants to ban salt shakers.
Here is what I’d like to see…. I’d really like to watch the Mayor change a tire on an automobile.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA smart guy like this could probably do it in a snap, right?
And he's "considering" a run for the Presidency?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis pompous idiot is in need of a major smackdown.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBloomie is clearly auditioning for COO of the Obama administration. Maybe if the unwashed had heard more marketing slogans and got their passports, things would have been different.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe only people trying to start a trade war are the Fed and Obama - or doesn't Bloomberg's lil' passport toting brain understand global currency exchange. I realize I am not a billionaire but I'll take my midwestern, tea party loving, passport possessing brain over his any day.
When you start impugning (Mayor you know that word?) people's intelligence I might suggest you look into the mirror to see where the floor for intelligence starts.
Jerk.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat is Bloomberg talking about? The ads in the Philadelphia area said that the Republicans were pro-China . . . External Link
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat an arrogant, elitist, clueless, duffus. The rest of us can only be thankful he is NY's burden. Is he auditioning to replace Biden as VP in 2012?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat an arrogant, elitist, clueless, duffus. The rest of us can only be thankful he is NY's burden. Is he auditioning to replace Biden as VP in 2012?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe paragraph you highlighted made me angry, it could be an adlib mashup out of the Kerry/Obama playbook: opponents stupid - check; extensive foreign travel as a prerequisite for office - check; adoration of China as same - check. Delivered in a sneering, condescending manner - check.
But a second one in the same interview made my blood boil; talking about opposition to use of Chinese developed technology:
"Let me get this straight: There's a country on the other side of the world that is taking their taxpayers' dollars, and trying to sell subsidized things so we can buy them cheaper, and have better products, and we’re going to criticize that?" he said.
Taxpayers? Since when are Chinese peasants under communist rule "taxpayers"? That's a mighty nuanced view of "taxpayer". You know what, Mayor Mike? I pray the stupid, xenophobic, hicks we just elected are ignorant of your understanding of what China is. I hope they are in the "wrong" and assume that Chinese technology is built on the backs of oppressed people with no alternatives. I hope they "criticize that", I hope they condemn that, and I hope they block that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is such a silly conceit, of course. You don't need an advanced degree or even know how to spell very well to understand that free trade and markets are positive things. Palin might not have a Ming vase in her living room but she certainly knows better than Pelosi to put the US ever further in hock to Beijing.
The irony of course is that just this week China criticized the US for 'central planning' of the economy. That is how bad it has gotten under the president that Bloomberg and his news organization cheerleaded all the way into the White House two years ago.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat's all the more remarkable is that he called President Obama "the most arrogant man he'd ever met."
Mayor Bloomberg has put his ignorance out for public consumption. Who's policies have led to our tension with China? That's right, the outgoing Democrats and the sitting president. The incoming group hasn't DONE anything yet and in his mind, they're already to blame.
Can't read? That's a fifth-grade insult so rooted in his insular life-experience that it's almost embarrassing. No, it IS embarrassing.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt is a particularly amazing comment since, at least in Wisconsin, we voted for the free trader versus the guy that advertised his opposition to NAFTA. I don't know if anyone has done the analysis but my guess is that the number of free traders is up
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat Bloomberg and his kind seem to ignore is the fact that it is they who brought us to the place we are now.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI've had it with these preening elitists. First of all, he should have said "whom," not "who." If he's going to look down his oh, so blue nose at us, he ought at least to use correct grammar. Also, we are a family of eight, all with passports. I've taught our six children to read (and to do math, which is more than can be said for those brilliant minds in New York). On top of that, we not only know where China is, we've been there, and to Vietnam as well. While we may live now in the "great unwashed middle" of the country, I graduated summa with (your editor doesn't like the Latin) laude from a university in, of all places, New York. So there. Glad to get that off my chest.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat? A passport is a sign of what virtue, exactly? It's easy to see this man has forgotten, or never known, what it is like to just get by, to struggle from paycheck to paycheck with very little cushion - something a large number of Americans know only too well. "Passports" reminds me of those code-words that all our Liberal detractors accused Republicans of for years. No regard or interest in the great flyover unwashed. This ignorance is exactly what caused Tuesdays results. And nothing I've seen shows to me that the Left gets this. Something they ignore at their own peril. And to the peril of the "U" in the USA...
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseEven unionized nurses aren't that arrogant.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseConsidering the mayoralty is way down the food chain from the Senate and House races, the people who would vote for mayor must be even more illiterate than those who vote for federal offices. Right Nanny Bloomberg. I also knew this would happen if Bloomberg got a third term, in spite of term limits, that his true liberal colors would come out. They did with a vengeance. The only problem is that the NY democrats are so socialistic, that Bloomberg looks 'moderate' by comparison. But next election there will only be socialists and New York will be going down big time. Once the city implodes, like it did under Dinkins, it will go full Detroit, with no Rudy Giuliani to save it.
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