I heart Bloomberg

"For their own selfish reasons, the TWU has decided that their demands are more important than the law, the City and the people they serve. This is not only an affront to the concept of public service; it is a cowardly attempt by Roger Toussaint and the TWU to bring the City to its knees to create leverage for their own bargaining position. We cannot give the TWU the satisfaction of causing the havoc they desperately seek to create."
- Michael Bloomberg on 12/20/05, Mayor, New York City.

This is why I love our Billionaire mayor. In the wee hours on 12/20/05, at the dawn of the first MTA strike in a quarter of a century, we see Mr.Bloomberg orating, in all his machismo with a twist of wry, standing in front of hundreds of hungry camera flashes, clad in a black mock-neck sweater that reads "I heart NY," after which he proceeded to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, alongside hundreds of poor, cold souls, then joining the millions of other workers who must, somehow, get to their destination.