Saturday, January 14, 2006

Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Power and Greed as a Culture

Mayor Bloomberg's personal out-of-pocket cost for his sucessful reelection totaled $ 84,000,000. What does Mayor Bloomberg need? Is it vanity? Is it greed for power? Is it wanting to be feared,admired and loved? In that order. Or does he know why he so hungry?

Maybe money as a culture and Bloomberg as a representative is the only way to appeal to the multicultural metropolis. Since ther is no basic ethnicity or culture in New York one needs the alchemy of money to attract and hold together diverse peoples. It is required for leaders of multicultural group to spend money on high-end and low-end welfare to have a quasi culture. That all works till the money runs out. And then the real "ties that bind" are searched for.

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