“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said in a speech at MIT last night. What's more, Bloomberg is not afraid to use his army, even in very bizarre fashion. His expansive view of what government should be doing, has resulted in the banning of a cat in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel and the banning of smoking in Central Park.
Most ominous, in a recent speech he said:
Government is not an innocent bystander in the marketplace, and it should not pretend to be.
Methinks he has bigger plans than banning cats, and that he has plans that span far beyond NYC. He really wants to go from controlling the seventh biggest army to being commander and chief of the largest army in the world.