"Hey, I'm Rich as Fuck, I Don't Need This Job, So Fuck All of You"

Which would seem to be the attitude of Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who was so wrapped up worrying about firearms that he couldn't attend to getting the streets plowed.

OK, big snow storms happen. But when the post-Christmas blizzard hit, ol' Mayor Mike couldn't stir himself to even declare a snow emergency.

Up in the northern states, the acid test of local government is getting the streets plowed. You can ask Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic, who lost his re-election bid because the city government failed that job. If there was a Handbook of How to Be a Mayor of a Northern City, the very first maxim in the handbook would be this: Get the fucking streets plowed after a snowstorm.

Of course, ol' Mayor Mike doesn't give a flying fuck about any of that. He had the rules changed to negate term limits, ignoring the fact that a referendum adopting term limits had been twice approved by the voters. See, Mikey-boy is a billionaire and the rules are different for him. In his mind, he is the Lord of the City, he's the boss, not the voters, and elections are to be bought by comparatively massive amounts of campaign cash.

So Mikey made certain that his street was plowed, the streets of midtown Manhattan (at least below 110th street) and fuck all of those plebes in the other boroughs. Nobody in his inner circle would live there, anyway, so what's it matter to him if the streets of Brooklyn or Queens aren't plowed for four days?

If you were to look in a pictorial dictionary for the entry of "political arrogance", you'd find Mike Bloomberg's picture.

Or, maybe, it's all about the Republicans' crusade to dismantle government at every level.

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