Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/14/2011 02:06 PM Report

Hey wanna see a Real 9/11 Memorial?

Thirty Seconds:

http://youtu.be/ts4s4KKQXmE

UNITED WE STAND!

This is what we should really remember 10 years later! America at its very best.

All the way to Utah but hey it has a poignancy that Sunday missed.

doodah  09/14/2011 04:21 AM Report

@ SharkswithfrikingLazers 09/13/2011 09:16 PM

I thought I was the Only one who noticed THAT about good ole Mr Mayor (wannabe President) here.

Don't have time to watch the interview here, but I was Appalled when I heard him speak on the subject before; Thanks to your commentary, I see his 'position' hasn't changed, and so being, I Don't Trust his 'genius' ass. I know he's just being a Typical Politician (and Financial in-crowd good ole boy) trying to 'PROTECT' his Ca$h Cow (Wall Street).

Hey Boomberg! Get Out And Look At What Your Cash Cow Has Done (And Is Doing) To The Rest Of The Country!!! It Ain'T Good; and Wall Street-to-Washington Fraud Did It! THANKS

JohnGelles  09/14/2011 01:53 AM Report

Unfortunate comment was offered at the start of these comments on the Mayor's conversation with our host:

..... "NYC and the Pentagon want us to believe this was an attack on America. They did manage to convince some poor patriots in the heartland of this country, from places of which these city folk have never heard, love to mock, and/or don't give a damn [about]. ... However, it was clearly an attack only on America's military-industrial and financial complex, and the very policies advocated for the past decade. Of course the reason why NYC has rebounded so well from the 2001 attack is the very reason why the rest of the country is in a depression."

..... These seditious remarks, excusing murder and looking for a fight, are a disgrace to these pages, an insult to freedom of thought, and clearly the product of an inferior mind. May their author do penance in a place of his own choosing.

JohnGelles  09/14/2011 01:34 AM Report

"It's Not the Time for Closure -- It's Time for Recovery and Renewal of America from Crises that followed Nine-Eleven 2001. Let's Get On With It." -- Christiane Amanpour.

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Let's invite "leading institutes of technology / schools of engineering" to open remote campuses in New York City. They will bring NYC the high tech revolutionary power of parent university research regions in Northern and Southern California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, Cambridge, India, and others I regret I've missed. -- Spoken by a NYC staff officer and seconded by the Mayor

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"Let's open our failed cities to immigration of entrepreneurs with boundless energy and determination to own a small business -- some of which will grow. Bring in enough of these and some will grow and all the cities that try it will have a measure of success -- The Mayor, himself.

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A lot more than the above was said in this hour of remembrance and planning ahead. It was a show to be kept for reference and action in coming months.

I add to it something a little different: an actual agenda which assumes that many of our contradictions ought to be resolved in favor of logistical science:

"The real American economy consists of the people and property working together to produce the things they need as they were before financial bubbles burst or financial crises arrived. The false American economy is one without money and jobs enough to recover to what it was moments before it failed. The real American economy responds to intelligent work and reform. The false one responds only to market prices.

"Naturally, the people want the real economy. The experts in charge don't know the reforms we need. They don't know the difference between the real and false economies.

Briefly--

(1) savings must be indexed for inflation;

(2) taxes on labor, income, gain and wealth must be repealed and replaced by the effect of the above savings, and by government issue money spent into circulation, and by non-essential sales taxes to prevent hyper-inflation;

(3) trade must not imperil industrial power;

(4) debt must frozen in place without interest, from the time a moratorium is declared by law until it is ended the same way.

(5) until recovery is achieved, congress must authorize government investment and contracts that will supply urgently needed goods, services and aggregate demand."

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/13/2011 09:30 PM Report

Yes, Mr. Mayor Washington needs to work together.

The coffee in the locked room with no bathroom is one way. Perhaps add bran muffins for effect.

So let's require Congress and their families to live in Washington and attend Church/Mosque/Temple/Ward House together and all have a potluck every Sunday afternoon.

Or just let them pee their pants. Either way . . .

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/13/2011 09:25 PM Report

Mr. Mayor you have deadlines on construction so you can get on with life. Yes Pearl Harbor took forever but we jumped into the war and won. Looking forward can be very healthy--focus on the new task that is given you.

Then again, perhaps you aren't taking long enough. Maybe you should take decades and decades and decades and then after we have already "got on with our lives" finish it.

Sunday might have been better served celebrating the decapitation of the network of perpetrators.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/13/2011 09:16 PM Report

Whoa there on the Bankers. A wee bit generous Mr. Mayor. The bankers are crooks--they bundled junk, lied about it by buying good ratings and sold it to the world. They brought us all down. Sure people are in houses now but my cost benefit analysis just does not let them off the hook as easily as yours apparently does. Jail, baby jail.

Why should bankers take risk now? To make money. Hello? They are still at the government trough borrowing at near zero and then just buying government instruments.

Put some in jail and get them off the dole Mr. Mayor.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/13/2011 09:09 PM Report

Charlie, you asked what his legacy will be?

I think he answered it when he said he could not even find out who the Mayor was when Central Park was created.

His legacy will last a bit longer than mine if that is any consolation.

doodah  09/13/2011 08:35 PM Report

... and you're a bigot, robd. Just like David Duke; you remember David Duke, don't you?.

robdverity  09/13/2011 05:27 PM Report

It does behoove an honest query: would 9/11/01 have happened w/o 1947?

JMM  09/13/2011 04:32 PM Report

Thank you for this conversation. I enjoyed listening to Michael’s advice on making decisions and leadership. Only one of his comments jarred me: when he said people don’t know why they are upset, but then that might be understandable if he’s speaking about the people around him. The reason that came to my mind was in the news today, and I’d love to see Michael and other entrepreneurs discuss their leadership solutions to the following (copied from The Daily Beast):

U.S. Poverty Jumps to 27-Year High

More Americans are living in poverty than they have in 27 years, according to census data released Tuesday. About 46.2 million people, or 15.1 percent of the population, are considered in need, which the government currently defines as having an income of $22,314 a year for a family of four or $11,139 for an individual. Middle-class income also inched downward in 2010, from $49,777 to $49,445. In total numbers, that matches the record for 1993 and is the highest since 1983. Overall, Americans’ median income has stagnated: people make only 11 percent more than they did in 1980, while consumer prices have risen about 150 percent.

... Much thanks!

BENEZRAA  09/13/2011 04:23 PM Report

TAIL-WAGGING, TONGUE WAGGING, AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Dear Mr. REMant:

Your commentary says far more about your own bigotry and biases than it does about "the New York City tail wagging the American Dog". For all your adept application of euphemisms, you may as well have said that it is "Jew York" that lays waste to America.

America is not a dog, nor is New York City a tail. Educated as you are, presumably, you are aware that Islam regards dogs as unclean creatures to be kicked, starved, and abused, just as Islam regards Jews as "pigs, dogs, and monkeys" [see the Koran, which you may already know by heart]. This Islamic bigotry of course creates a common bond between Muslim Jew-hatered and non-Muslim Jew-hatered.

The attack of Nine-Eleven was indeed an attack on America. To say that it was an attack on the "military-industrial-financial complex", as you did, is to attribute a compassion for America that does not exist in the lexicon of the attackers, except to the extent that "convert or die" may be interpreted within their especial lexicon as "compassionate action". Personally, I prefer President Bushes "compassionate conservatism".

To be sure, there is no shortage of urbanites, who regard America's "Heartland" with the same contempt that many in the Heartland regard "Jew York". Yet, on any given morning, if you watch the extended television news magazine programs, you will see Americans from our Heartland lined up for blocks around NYC broadcasting centers, excited to be in The Big Apple, just as on other occasions they will be excited to be visiting our nation's Capiitol in Washington, DC. This is the reality of America, despite the rife political discord and despite the contemptuous tongue-waggings of such persons as yourself.

Americans flocked to Ground Zero on Nine-Eleven to help out, because they cared -- some at the cost of their lives -- and then did the same during Hurricane Katrina. Many New Yorkers (the Hurried New Yorker is an American icon) hurried themselves to the Mississippi Delta Region to help out during Katrina, a natural human response to crisis, just as help had naturally come to NYC from the Delta region during Nine-Eleven.

Yet, you regard Americans, as if we were stupid dogs, hoodwinked by clever conspiratorial tails, uprooting our lives and sacrificing our futures to grow those tails!

Your "analysis" is an insult to Americans. And it is an insult to dogs and their tails, as dogs may be quite intelligent, and their tail wagging may be vitally informative.

Dogs may even save lives -- even the lives of Muslims. Humanity could learn a vital lesson from dogs, that all people are human beings. It is interesting to note, that while dogs are known as "man's best friend", one never hears it said that man is dog's best friend. Only man teaches dogs to hate and discriminate.

Of course my words are just the words of a Jewish American Dog!

tabs  09/13/2011 02:37 PM Report

Mr Bloomberg is a bright man, who makes sense of the events of his life. However one became frustrated with listening to him as so many subjects were covered in the show in such a short succession. One didn't have time to be able to digest them in order to make sense of them. This rush of topics one can attribute to Mr Bloomberg wanting to cover as much territory as he could in such a short period of time. Or perhaps he just never has anyone to talk this way to and when he does it all comes out in a rush. If the later is the case there is a loneliness to the man.

Further Mr Bloomberg there is a certain agenda that your Mayors Council likes to pursue. You are dead wrong on that issue and as such you are doing a disservice to this nation. You can not legislate personal responsibility no matter how hard you try to.

REMant  09/13/2011 12:55 PM Report

While I'm sympathetic with firemen and police and the relatives of those who were killed, I think the NY city tail has wagged the American dog far too long, and I don't see anything good coming from these observances, which serve equally to justify what happened subsequently, and I believe no one should be proud of. As has been observed, it was not what happened on Sept 11 that mattered so greatly, but what happened on Sept 12.

Yet I see the Wash Post is up to just that, claiming Saturday the whole decade a great success, excepting only that we are failing to show the same resolve against Syria and Iran, etc. In this they are joined, of course, by the neocons and chickenhawks, who get to crawl out of their holes every year for the occasion.

And here we have the rather egotistical present mayor mouthing the very words used by George Bush to explain why: people who are envious of our freedoms and want to take them away. My posterior!

NYC and the Pentagon want us to believe this was an attack on America. They did manage to convince some poor patriots in the heartland of this country, from places of which these city folk have never heard, love to mock, and/or don't give a damn (neatly illustrated by the mayor's prescription for urban renewal, to which even inner-city blacks should object), who paid for their folly with their futures. However, it was clearly an attack only on America's military-industrial and financial complex, and the very policies advocated for the past decade. Of course the reason why NYC has rebounded so well from the 2001 attack is the very reason why the rest of the country is in a depression.

Candidate Kerry made many of these arguments, yet his party has returned to prewar form. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, particularly, it appears, in those interested in getting re-elected.

But what real good can come from trying to make this into another "holocaust" and Muslims into fascists? Or forcing a president and his wife to roam around in a field in Pennsylvania? Did those ppl really die for this?

I would suggest, BTW, that the only workable way to remove business uncertainty and restore confidence would have to be one that did not depend on the govt or central bank. That's what ppl in Bloomberg's position in the 1930's would have said.