It would be amusing . . . if it weren't true, and the results weren't/aren't so serious.

I pick option A . . .

Really can't say I'm surprised by Andrew Cuomo, who spent his tenure as HUD Secretary on a 24/7/365 campaign to be Bill Clinton's successor. Thankfully, that didn't happen. But, New Yorkers just love to vote for progressives -- so . . . they got what they wanted. God help the rest of us when this amoral, unscrupulous egotist inevitably decides to make his next run for the White House.

Three years ago, we still lived in NYC . . . we went down to Karma (a little bar on the Lower East Side which was one of the few places you could have a drink and a cigarette at the same time . . . wonder if it's still open? The Little Emperor was certainly trying to shut it down.) It was Fashion Week then too, and we wanted to see Kim, our favorite bartender, who was a student at FIT. Hmm . . . wonder if she ever married the guy she was engaged to? Anyway, the column just prompted memory . . . and a renewed recognition that I am SO glad we escaped the Little Emperor's fiefdom. Best of luck, NYC . . . you need it with the "rulers" (Bloomberg, Cuomo, Schumer, et. al.) you've chosen.

And these are the people who teach our children . . . Forty-five years ago, "education" was the field-of-choice for that generation's "low-information" high school graduates . . . that has continued for two generations: teachers drawn from a pool of the mediocre, often barely-literate . . . no emphasis on, or requirement for, "hard"/objective subject knowledge -- just a willingness to be an "agent of change" and parrot the fashionable teaching-technique-of-the-day. No wonder that today's public school teachers are the ultimate in "low-information": having none, and providing none . . . possessed only of a distorted view of history/reality, and a boundless sense of entitlement. And these are the people who teach our children .

. . . an interesting history lesson, and appropriate to the current political situation . . . two birds - one stone . . . nicely done, Mr. Ransom.

. . . and we should return to basic math: (with the given information) if an employee works at 1% capacity, and his employer expects a 20% improvement, the desired result would presumably be employees working at 1.2% of capacity . . . I assume that the hypothetical 20% improvement was meant to measure some unidentified employee output, not employee effort.

It's been 11+ years since September 11th -- the WTC site is still a hole in the ground . . . . I would guess that it will take a while to get NYC's crumbling subway system running again. But hey! What difference does it make? We can all use the Little Emperor's (Bloomberg) bike lanes to cycle our merry way to work. (. . . oops! . . . can't get across those pesky bridges!) . . . and with the addition of a handlebar basket, we can bring home a week's worth of groceries in (what?) 10-15 trips. Life in the Socialist Workers Paradise of NYC: glittering towers of million dollar co-ops, equal misery for everyone else who can't afford the Bloomberg lifestyle.

I like Mr. Hunter's suggestions . . . I like the tone, and I like the specificity . . . I can only hope that the Romney campaign pays attention -- or, has its own in-house version of Derek Hunter. We shall see . . .

Not content with having ruined NYC, Mike "the Little Emperor" Bloomberg now flits around the country imparting his wisdom to the benighted heartland. NYC -- Gotham on the Hudson -- is the nation's beacon with its cratered streets, bedbug infestations, subway flooding (when it rains), power outages (when it doesn't), intentionally-created traffic congestion, decrepit hospitals, and non-performing (warehouse) schools -- but hey, at least the population gets miles of (unused) bike lanes, and no trans-fats, salt or smoking for their sky-high taxes. Feh . . . no wonder people leave that city (and state) in droves . . . I've been gone for 18 months; believe me, I understand why the Little Emperor wants to leave -- even for a short time.