There’s an abandoned armory in the Bronx that could be filled with commercial tenants – and jobs for the locals – but the usual “activists” have teamed up with business owners who fear competition to shut it down. NYC’s Council is, of course, siding with the activists. To BusinessInsider, who reports this story, this is an indication that the Bronx must not need jobs but these battles are never really about jobs or the unemployed. Professional activists already have jobs: they’re professional activists, and if they can use the poor folks they care so desperately about to extract concessions and tributes from developers well hey, that’s why the East River’s so handy.
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Unbelievable. Guess they missed this recent interactive article on NYTimes. Check it out – 6,500 people applied for 120 jobs being offered at an Applebee’s. Most jobs work for tips or minimum wage and have an opportunity to buy health insurance. Yup, definitely no jobs needed in the Bronx:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/06/nyregion/20091206_Applebees_Audio.html?scp=2&sq=applebees%20&st=cse
NYC socio-economic dynamics: a few K big taxpayers in Manhattan and Greenwich paying for lifestyles of millions of welfare losers who are too dumb and lazy to ever pay taxes or get a real job….very Bonfire of the Vanities-esque….some things never change when Darwinian selection is prevented by a welfare state