Wednesday Links
Plan Would Require Homeless to Work for Rent [NY Times] Negotiations Seek to Avert a Strike by Doormen [NY Times] 3% Transfer Tax a Drag on the Recovery [NY Times] One Last Place to Get Fleeced on a Mortgage [NY Times] Charter Chase Fuels School Lottery Drama [NY Post] Marty Peddles Hard to Clarify Bike…
Plan Would Require Homeless to Work for Rent [NY Times]
Negotiations Seek to Avert a Strike by Doormen [NY Times]
3% Transfer Tax a Drag on the Recovery [NY Times]
One Last Place to Get Fleeced on a Mortgage [NY Times]
Charter Chase Fuels School Lottery Drama [NY Post]
Marty Peddles Hard to Clarify Bike Lane Remarks [NY Post]
Construction Sends Rats Back to Brighton Beach Streets [NY Daily News]
Old Coney Rides Thriving in Honduras [NY Daily News]
Barricade on Flatbush is Coming Down [Brooklyn Paper]
No Additional Floors for 75 Clinton [Brooklyn Eagle]
New Era Begins To Take Shape in Coney [NY1]
Construction Period Signage Up at Atlantic Yards [AY Report]
More Renderings of the New Governors Island [Curbed]
Photo by Karen Shen
The handouts are for people who don’t do anything. I’m talking about productive people who never take handouts and get taxed to death. Welfare, socialism, etc. and labor unions while often shown as being linked or similar to each other by political commentators are two separate things. Welfare is not a constitutional right, collective bargaining is.
No one hates on working people. How about trading a fair day’s work for free housing???
“When people who earn more than the average have their
‘surplus’ or the greater part of it seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than the average have the deficiency, or the greater part of it, turned over to them in handâ€outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline, for the energetic and able lose their incentive to produce more than the average and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their conditionâ€
Henry Hazlitt
To make a comfortable salary and hate on working people? These same people will make a point to say they give to charity. I guess giving handouts makes one feel superior to others versus trading a fair days pay for a fair day’s work.
I learned how to throw darts at an early age, Joe. The least these people could do is become secretaries and get me my coffee in the morning. It’s not a demanding job.
Nice the homeless have to work and the Wall Street bankers get to sit in an office and take taxpayer money for free. New York Times you make me sick!
or Hedge fund managers
it’s time non-Manhattan bldgs separate themselves from the Manhattan bunch who never has the guts to say “go ahead and strike then be replaced by fresh blood” (even if by equally expensive HC; just to let doormen, porters, etc know that there’s such a thing as termination risk in the real world). Everytime, these union contracts are up, those Manhattan pansy always bend over (god forbid they have to open their own doors). for many of us not living in premo full svc bldgs and/or in BK/queens/BX, F ’em if they want to strike. if bldg owners dont find the balls to stand up now, then cut those balls off now cause they’re useless
or baristas
I say teach the homeless how to be doormen and avert that ridiculous negotiation. With slightly more training than can learn to work for the MTA.