Saturday, June 13, 2009

Do I Like Mayor Bloomberg? Why Or Why Not ?

I personally think that mayor Bloomberg is a great mayor because he does many things for New York City. There are certain things about Mayor that I dont like. He is socially liberal,supporting abortion rights, gay marriage, gun control, and normalization of the status of illegal immigrants On economics, foreign, and domestic issues, he tends to be conservative. I am totally against marriage and i don't think abortion should be legal. Bloomberg tends to be liberal about his policies towards many social issues. He supports governmental funding for stem cell research, calling the Republican position on the issue "insanity."He also supports same-sex marriage with the rationale that “I think anybody should be allowed to marry anybody". Even though mayor bloomerg has a lot of defects he does have many things to honor. On Domestic issues, Bloomberg is liberal compared to the country as a whole, but moderate leaning towards conservative compared to other large city mayors in the US. On crime, Bloomberg opposes the death penalty, stating, "I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty."As mayor he increased the mandatory minimum sentence for illegal possession of a loaded handgun. In regard to the change, Bloomberg commented, "Illegal guns don't belong on our streets and we're sending that message loud and clear. We're determined to see that gun dealers who break the law are held accountable, and that criminals who carry illegal loaded guns serve serious time behind bars."Bloomberg has also shown involvement in education reform as mayor, replacing the school board set up by the state with direct mayoral control over public education. He raised the salaries of teachers by 15% while the test scores of students in the city and the graduation rate rose as well. Bloomberg is opposed to the promotion of students to the next grade level for strictly social reasons citing that students should only be promoted when they are adequately prepared for the next grade level. He favors after-school programs to help students that are behind. As mayor, Bloomberg strengthened the cell-phone ban in schools. Bloomerg to me is a good mayor he could change a couple things but right now his actions aren't doing any danger to New York which is good. I dont think I can say whether I like him or not he is ok.

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