When you've got guys putting in for overtime they never worked, it's the same as stealing.

Or my new favorite, how the MTA is missing millions of dollars in car parts. As if the employees didn't take them home or the mechanics didn't use them to repair their own cars or their friends cars. They just can't find thousands of parts.

They had a purpose 100 years ago. But for the last several decades, they're just an excuse for people to steal.

I'll give you that union workers do have a sense of entitlement. But entitlement doesn't automatically lead to being corrupt. Corruption has always been a part of union culture.

No. Unions are corrupt because the people who work for them are corrupt.

If murder was legal, do you know how many murders I'd commit? None. Because I don't want to murder anyone. Saying people behave in a manner which they do because a system allows it is a copout. When union employees are out bowling or fishing when they should be at work and collecting six figure overtime paychecks for it, it's because they are criminal assholes, not because the system allows it.

We can thank the corrupt unions for this.

"There's a dead rat in there! Grub!"

I wish this was a big enough offense to get him out of office.

Hey, what can you expect from a project that was billions over budget and delayed more than a decade? They can’t get the schedules right, you think they planned for all trauma to go to Grand Central? That would have required 6 more years and $10 billion more.

Then you have to include Gen X, and every generation that comes after them as well. As government employee salaries go up, their pensions will go up as well.

Only boomers with fat pensions are government employees. 401K became the norm right as I graduated college in 1986.

This effects Boomers, too.

Unions.

10 years ago

Two months ago I would have been surprised it was that low. However, as I have been applying for jobs in NYC, I see more and more jobs requiring you to be in the office at least 3 days a week. I just told a recruiter "No" to a job that requires 5 days a week in the office. I told him "Do they know it's 2023? Who is asking for 5 days a week in the office for a tech job?"

I am for the rent stabilization laws staying in place. However, something does need to be done about the eviction process. Taking 4, 5 or more months to evict someone who stops paying rent is outrageous. It sucks if they lose their job, but how long of a grace period are they supposed to get?

Not really. In positions like that, it's about decision making. The people who work for you provide you all of the information they can about a particular issue, or issues, and you use that information to make decisions.

If she was in management in the NYFD for almost a decade, she knows what the problems are and what needs to be addressed. What she needs from the people who work for her and suggestions as to how best to address those issues. From her speech, it doesn't look like she is getting that support.

This guy should be giving this speech wearing a clown suit with a big rubber nose, and every once in a while, water shoots out of a fake flower pinned to the clown suit and he honks a horn when it happens.

Civilian Complaint Review Board recommended 145 cops receive some type of disciplinary action. The police will do nothing. They likely pissed all over that report.

Given some of the more mellow songs Freddie sang, I think he could do that tune, which is arguably my favorite Sam Cooke tune, justice.

That said, I never said Freddie was the be all, end all of singers. I feel about him the same way I feel about Sam Cooke. Both great singers, but not the greatest singers.

It’s likely Aretha Franklin who could sing any genre of music except heavy metal. She even managed to pull off opera music. Pop. Soul. R&B. Rock. She could do it all and do it at an extremely high level.

The late, great, Chris Cornell might have something to say about that whole “powerful voice” statement.

Sinatra is not a good singer.

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Lionel Ritchie cannot sing for shit on a live stage. His performance at his Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction a few months ago was embarrassing. While watching it my wife turned to me and said “he no longer has the right to criticize any singer on American Idol”. I agree.

I love Sam Cooke. He’s just fantastic. That said, Sam Cooke could not sing Tie Your Mother Down.