News: Mayor Bloomberg's budget cuts run deep through FDNY, NYPD, schools and services

[Harry]

Most city workers wouldn't get a raise under the new budget Mayor Bloomberg unveiled Thursday afternoon - unless they work harder, pay more for health care or agree to reduce pensions for new employees.

Teachers would get a 2% raise, but only on the first $70,000 of their salaries.

"The savings we would make would mitigate the need to lay off 2,500 teachers," Bloomberg said. "The world has changed, and we have to make a choice. Do we want to pay more and have 2,500 fewer teachers, or have 2,500 more teachers?"

The mayor had previously budgeted for 1.25% increases for most workers, worth $190 million, as well as hefty 4% raises for teachers.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz0dw9xNcbe

[Y2Julio]

It's harsh to be a city employee right now.

[SubwayGuy]

This guy is such an a-hole it's ridiculous. There are so many other things it's possible to cut without hurting the hardworking city employees who keep vital services such as this going. When he cuts back on the FDNY, such as if he closes firehouses, some of the deaths that result as a consequence of longer response times will be solely on HIS hands.

He continues to stand for big business and not the hardworking citizens of NYC.

He ran on improvements to education but all he has done is prepare kids for tests, not life, dumb down schools, and now he's cutting a lot of them all together. He's a joke..

[Locomotion69]

Originally Posted by Y2Julio

It's harsh to be a city employee right now.

And it is also harsh right now to be on a civil service list waiting.....

[KTrainExp]

Originally Posted by SubwayGuy

He ran on improvements to education but all he has done is prepare kids for tests, not life, dumb down schools, and now he's cutting a lot of them all together. He's a joke..

That's also partly due to the fault of the Bush and Obama administration.

[Shortline Bus]

with these proposed, i say this. this is looking alot like the era of 1974/75 nyc.

[theaveragejoe]

Originally Posted by SubwayGuy

This guy is such an a-hole it's ridiculous. There are so many other things it's possible to cut without hurting the hardworking city employees who keep vital services such as this going. When he cuts back on the FDNY, such as if he closes firehouses, some of the deaths that result as a consequence of longer response times will be solely on HIS hands.

He continues to stand for big business and not the hardworking citizens of NYC.

He ran on improvements to education but all he has done is prepare kids for tests, not life, dumb down schools, and now he's cutting a lot of them all together. He's a joke..

If anything FDNY's budget could mean is buying less new apparatus every year as they have one the the newest fleets for its size in the world

[Urbanfortitude]

Originally Posted by Locomotion69

And it is also harsh right now to be on a civil service list waiting.....

only if you're solely depending on it for employment.

[FamousNYLover]

I don't want any fire stations to closed because that is also most important with emergency response.
I saved EO44 from shutdown at rally.
I am planning to rally with FDNY to keep all fire stations open.
They play important roles, putting up fire, assisting medical, educating students, etc.

[Joe]

Laying off FDNY and NYPD = biiiiiiiig mistake.

If those cuts go through: NYC, we hardly knew ye.

[Grand Concourse]

Yeah, stuff like this is where the 'stimulus package' should be going. Not the big companies.

[SubwayGuy]

Originally Posted by Grand Concourse

Yeah, stuff like this is where the 'stimulus package' should be going. Not the big companies.

That's why I post the stuff I post here all the time. Agree with it or not, the amount of money used to "save" one investment banker's job can save 5-10 teachers/cops/firefighters/transit workers/etc.

[metsfan]

The "bailout" should not be confused with the "stimulus", they have 2 different purposes, and the money goes to 2 totally different places with totally different conditions.

Stimulus = given to state, city, and other agencies to do things, as well as grants for private projects. Meant to create and save jobs. Not all of it has even been given out yet. There could be a jobs bill to boost this to help it gather momentum.

Bailout = a one time emergency plan to save financial system from collapse, which will largely have been repaid by the lend-ees (banks) to the federal government by 2011. No they don't get to keep the money as some have suggested.

The problem with bloomturd, is that he is a billionaire & has no idea how real people live. How about NYC mayoral election replaced by random drawing of current citizens?

- A

[NX Express]

Originally Posted by metsfan

The problem with bloomturd, is that he is a billionaire & has no idea how real people live. How about NYC mayoral election replaced by random drawing of current citizens?

- A

Then I would become mayor, and that would be

[nhrrwtby]

Originally Posted by SubwayGuy

This guy is such an a-hole it's ridiculous. There are so many other things it's possible to cut without hurting the hardworking city employees who keep vital services such as this going. When he cuts back on the FDNY, such as if he closes firehouses, some of the deaths that result as a consequence of longer response times will be solely on HIS hands.

He continues to stand for big business and not the hardworking citizens of NYC.

He ran on improvements to education but all he has done is prepare kids for tests, not life, dumb down schools, and now he's cutting a lot of them all together. He's a joke..

I hate to be the skunk in the room, but business in New York pay for most of the services through their taxes. Create a climate hostile to businesses and watch them flee the city...and take the tax base with them. Like it or not, we're in a recession caused by many factors, not the lease of which is banks who were forced by government regulations to lend to people who couldn't pay it back. Rather than sit on those loans, they packaged them and sold them off as leveraged securities. Now the house has come crashing down. In this city, as in most, public services are the largest expenditures in the budget, so any budget cuts are going to affect services. I would also respectfully remind everyone that "business" people are hard-working, too, and they don't have union protections to fall back on.

Now don't chase me out of the community....