Re: NYC tax dollars at work

On 5/14/2025 7:23 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2025 14:30:15 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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Trump took it over and completed it promptly on his own dime.

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"...by mid-June, builder Trump had his guys on the site.
And, through the summer and autumn, he cracked the whip on
them, and presently it began to appear that he would bring
in the job not only under budget, but well ahead of his own
Dec. 15 deadline."

  Under budget? Ahead of the deadline?
Does that sound remotely like he did it for free?
LOL

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The bicycle path and the Wollman skating rink are not all
that different from the Obama Palace of Adoration except
that's a privately funded fiasco managed by various
hangers-on from the Obama administrations:
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https://www.facebook.com/doug.ibendahl/videos/a-must-watch-jesse-watters-sent-a-reporter-to-the-south-side-of-chicago-to-check/550622841175265/
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'Phrase that pays' at 55 seconds in.

  My router blocks everything Meta. Has 1477 entries in the
/etc/hosts file. And that's just Meta .....
If you're interested in blocking intrusive data-mining (AKA
your government spying on you) I can upload the list.
I'll just have to assume that the "Obama Palace of Adoration"
is yet another church.
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That is a very good question. Turns out yes and no:
https://drjonsicu.com/the-story-of-donald-trump-and-the-wollman-skating-rink/
More, and a bit on the nature of public projects with examples:
https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/will-donald-trump-do-for-infrastructure-what-he-did-for-wollman-rink/
Mr Trump has some engaging traits. Modesty is not among them:
" On May 31, 1986 Donald Trump said in an interview with the Times, 'I don't want my name attached to losers. So far the Wollman Rink has been one of the great losers. I'll make it a winner. '  "
https://www.forbes.com/sites/offwhitepapers/2015/08/24/donald-trump-and-the-wollman-rinking-of-american-politics/
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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971