¶ New York City
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New York City:
"The appropriate metaphor for New York City is that of a ship. All of the equipment and the data are there. The ship is not sunk. The pumps all work.
"The people of New York could take one of several routes:
– U.S. Army; they could turn it over to the Army to run it, but this would be fascist.
– Communist; to go communist would be equally unthinkable.
– Unions; they could accept the leadership of the unions.
“The union heads with all their talent and leadership could decide to operate the city. The confrontation of the unions has not been so much with the city itself as it has been with the banks, the bankers, and their paper money game. The union leaders should issue their own paper money scrip and enlist the support of all the other union leaders in the country. It is a game of paper money; they might as well play their own.”
¶ Citations
- RBF via telephone from Djakarta to EJA; revised statement for N.Y. Times, 31 Jul’75
