tough, I know people that flew out there today for it because they had still said it was on this morning.
This should have been canceled on Tuesday or Wednesday. They were interviewing people from around the world on TV today who flew in just for this!
I think it was known, and they let the people come so as not to lose commerce Greed for the lack of another term
Certainly you are entitled to your opinion. Thats mine The tax revenue that these people bring to the city is worth lieing to the people about
Thanks. More than half of the entrants couldn't get into NYC for the start of the race Sunday morning if they wanted to. The tax revenue this year would've been a fraction of a typical year and a proverbial drop in the bucket compared to nypd overtime etc during the next few days in dealing with the effects of Sandy.
+10 and seriously these things need to be powering local gas stations and places that need it. talk about a cluster F Image Unavailable, Please Login
Supposedly, it was the $350M media fee Bloomberg was worried about. If he can cancel the Knicks @ Nets game, the first NBA game in a brand new arena, because of a lack of mass transit and the demand for police presence elsewhere, then the marathon should've been canceled the same day. (This city ran a marathon in 2001. The difference is that there was more time between catastrophe and event, and the attacks of September 11 didn't decimate infrastructure throughout the Tri-State, didn't wipe out entire towns.)
That's an incredible amount of city revenue that's very, very difficult to make up for in this economy. You condemned the delayed cancelation of the marathon as an example of greed. But the reason this city, this state, this nation and the West in general, are in such an economic and cultural mess is because current ethics are radically redistributionist; irrespective of the impact on both those who're a forced to pay for these pathetic schemes and those who receive these poison apples, irrespective of the impact this never substantiated ethic has had on progress, people living outside the West, future generations, etc. That, my friend, is wholesale greed and power lust, the consequences of which lead to desperate, almost understandable errors like Bloomberg's -- and there are far more potent, far more shocking, far more lethal "errors" on the horizon for all of us. (I use "" because these were and are foreseeable consequences of this ethic.)
That makes a lot more sense. Obviously, the race should've been canceled right after Bloomberg saw the high level of devastation to the city. Typical politician...
