New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced that he wants to run for a third term. There's one little problem though - New York City has term limits and Mike's two terms are up. Mike say, "No problem! I'll just get the City Council to extend the number of terms to threeinstead of two so I can run one more time!" Of course, the frightened sheep who support this say, "Well, Mike's good with finance, and we're in deep financial trouble, so he's just GOTTA do one more term".
Well what about the will of the people? The voters TWICE voted in favor of term limits. Now the City Council will just disregard that voice and stomp all over it. Furthermore, once Mike announces his intention to run, you will see all other serious candidates drop out of the race, because they don't have the billions of dollars of personal wealth that Bloomberg will be able to spend on this campaign. And let's face it, what will be his solution to the economic crisis that will be different than anyone else's? He will cut services and raise taxes, just like anyone else would when times are tight.
Allowing elected officials to run again after their proscribed term is up is how dictatorships start. Now, this being the United States of America, I don't think a dictatorship will literally start. But, no one is irreplaceable. I'm sure in this city full of many intelligent public servants, we can find ONE person besides Mike Bloomberg to do this job.
More to come...all hail The Dear Leader Mike.
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