Mayor Mike Bloomberg is clearly annoyed by Occupy Wall Street- it must be difficult for the top earners to enjoy their $500 lunch nearby. He has, of course, shown that he is not adverse to shovelling money into the pockets of people he is told to trust, as in Joel Bondy of City Time (see the articles below). The police are being restrained for now, although the NYPD does not seem to enjoy this form of overtime.

Old Man Bloomberg Tired Of Occupy Wall Street's Attempts To "Destroy Jobs"
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In his weekly radio address, billionaire autocrat Michael Bloomberg took the opportunity to criticize the groups of students, labor unions, and other demonstrators who haven taken to Lower Manhattan to protest the state of our economy. "They're trying to take away the tax base we have, because none of this is good for tourism," Bloomberg said, apparently unaware that the tourists are eating it up and that some of the protesters are tourists themselves. He also claimed that those in Zuccotti Park were "trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city."

“If the jobs they’re trying to get rid of in the city—the people that work in finance, which is a big part of our economy—go away, we’re not going to have any money to pay our municipal employees or clean the parks or anything else,” he said. And it's not as if the mayor himself has ever played a role in pissing away hundreds of millions of dollars of that taxpayer money anyway.

Bloomberg began talking about the protests after a caller who claimed to live above Zuccotti Park said the park was "unusable" and complained of the group's "incivility." The mayor said "he couldn't agree more." According to the Times he also compared the protests to those in Vietnam for a second time in a week, noting that today's anti-war protesters are respectful of veterans. "The Vietnam War, which was my generation, we treated our vets who came back terribly, just terribly," he said. So, these protests are analogous to Vietnam in that they're both pointless, job-killing nuisances?

Governor Cuomo took a more measured stance on the protests at a press conference on Thursday. “The economy is not doing well," he said, "A lot of people are feeling the pain and when people are feeling pain they look for an outlet and I think that’s what you are hearing from the protestors."

CityTime's Sequel: How Bloomberg Wasted Another $297 Million
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Remember CityTime? It's Mayor Bloomberg's $740 million boondoggle to modernize the city's payroll administration that—oh look, Willow the cat! Anyway, it turns out that Bloomberg is really good at wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on implementing technological advances that years later appear to be abject failures. The Times reports that $363 million has been spent on Nycaps, a plan to "modernize" the personnel information on the city's employees that originally was budgeted for $66 million in 2002. That's right, $297 million spent over nine years for a website made in 1996.
A report conducted by the project's monitors and obtained through a FOIA request stated in 2003, "No sense of economy, efficiency, or value is evident in any area of the project." Raj Agarwal, the official who was tasked to manage the overhaul and quit because of the city's "incompetence," says, "It was a runaway project."
Mayor Bloomberg made a fortune and created an empire through data-organization, but his successes appear to be limited to the private sector. Despite warnings that the project was flawed, his administration appears to have thrown money at the contractor, Accenture, who was charged with not only creating Nycaps but defining exactly what it would do. Most companies "dislike giving both roles to the same contractor because it can lead to rising costs," but in Bloomberg's defense, it does save them having to write two checks.
Accenture "viewed the project as offering a convenient way to train interns and recent college graduates" while billing taxpayers up to $383/hour. The company was paid $108 million from 2005-2007 alone. All of this would be bad enough if the system worked, but problems appeared as early as 2002, when personal information of city employees was compromised thanks to a security flaw.
Nycaps is up and running, but it's "far from the project envisioned in 2002." A spokesperson for the mayor says that Nycaps and CityTime have "very little in common…save for the fact that they are now both fully functional systems used daily by thousands of city employees." Sort of like how Mayor Bloomberg and evil billionaire oligarchs have little in common, except for their taste in decor.

Sources: Bloomberg Ignored Warnings About CityTime
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While we debate Hizzoner's white lies about the Goldsmith imbroglio, keep in mind there is a much pricier scandal that should make everyone thoroughly pissed. Back in June, Mayor Bloomberg finally admitted in a press conference that the $740 million CityTime disaster was in fact not a "pretty good job" as he'd previously stated, but a debacle that "nobody paid as much attention to it as they should have, from me on down, and we’re going to find out who did what." However, three sources tell the Post that at least one city official did pay attention, and warned Bloomberg's advisors that CityTime was a huge waste of money, and should have been scrapped.
Paul Cosgrave, then the administration's commissioner of information technology, "was of the mind that, frankly, they should have just shut the project down. They were just spending money without a clear management process in place." According to the sources, after Cosgrave spoke up in 2007, Bloomberg's aides told him, "We'll look into it." Which they did…after millions had been stolen and the US Attorneys filed their criminal indictment. Cosgrave himself has been the subject of some scrutiny after inviting the city's IT contractors to schmancy outings, and resigned following problems with the city's new 911 system.
Yet by 2007, much of the damage had already been done, as CityTime was way behind schedule and had exceeded its budget by hundreds of millions of dollars. Recently, the federal investigation into CityTime has focused on the mayor's former leader of the Office of Payroll Administration, Joel Bondy, who is good friends with Mark Mazer, the mastermind of the CityTime embezzlement scheme. Bondy has resigned his $205K-year job in December.
Even after Bloomberg has asked for a $600 million refund from CityTime's contractor, a spokesman for the mayor tells the paper that, "The system works, and it's already providing value and is going to provide value for years and years to come." Sure CityTime's payroll improvements are only used by 35% of city employees, but one day we'll rename the Brooklyn Bridge the CityTime Viaduct and send our kids to CityTime High School once everyone realizes how much taxpayer money they "saved."

CityTime Investigation Honing In On City's Head Of Payroll

Bloomberg: Hey, Could We Get Those $600 Million CityTime Bucks Back, Please?

Bloomberg: My Bad About That Whole $740 Million CityTime Mess

CityTime Crook Forfeits $2.5 Million, Only $457.5 Million Left To Go!

Want $460 Million? Just Get NYC Gov't Contract And Steal It!

Bloomberg Thinks He Did A "Pretty Good Job" With CityTime

CityTime Consultant Who Couldn't Keep Time Charged With Taking $5 Million In Kickbacks

Mayor Bloomberg Sees The Bright Side of CityTime

CityTime Crook Pleads Guilty As Defendant List Grows

City Taps IBM To Take Servers To The Cloud

CityTime Troubles Go Beyond Stolen Cash

$26 Million in Stolen CityTime Money Seized

CityTime, Defense Contractors and Unanswered Questions

CityTime Scam Wake Drags 911 Services Down With It

CityTime Exec Quits After Being Suspended

CityTime Scam Gains Kickbacks, Sketchy History

Evidence Emerges of CityTime Troubles Dating to 2003

Bloomberg: CityTime Dough Just "Slipped Through Cracks"

City Suspends CityTime Big Shot, Seizes $800k in Cash

CityTime Consultants Charged With Stealing $80 Million

$722M Hand Scanner "Disaster" Has No End in Sight