New Yorkers are breathing a sigh of relief but clearly this only signals that NYC continues to be a terror hot spot and Washington has dropped the ball giving us the funding and support we need.
The front line work to thwart this cowardly terror attack came from the transit campaign to tell the NYPD if you
see something suspicious and a fast excellent response including by the NYPD Bomb Squad.
President Obama has to do more for New Yorkers. Many of us were left shaking our heads that he and Mike Bloomberg
did nothing to bail out St. Vincent's where many fire fighters were treated during the terror attacks and ran back
down...where the staff waited for victims to be brought to them and sadly there were not many survivors and here
we are again except for two quick thinking T-shirt vendors who happened to be Viet Nam Vets.
I am happy the NYPD, FBI and all involved have done such excellent work but this is a time to be humble, have our
feet on the ground and be extra alert because a primitive car bomb was prevented from going off but we are
far from safe.
Also note at the fore front of news should also be the fact Albany has still not balanced the budget and it is
a major catastrophe which means massive cuts and lay-offs that could officially take NY from a
recession to a depression. See my YouTube interview with Dan Halloran on what happens if Albany does
not get this budget balanced by this summer.
Right now by the way we have the smallest amount of NYPD ever policing the greatest number of New Yorkers,
plus the high volume of people that visit each day for work and tourism which is why we need more
funding and higher technology to keep this city safe but yes I am very upset because we need money for
school programs, homeless, NY's most vulnerable, kids, seniors, etc.
From terrorism to this catastrophic budget crisis New York is even for tough times. New Yorkers continue to rise
to the challenges....
