A Stitch in Haste

It's hard to be a benevolent dictator of the form that New York City's philosopher-king, lifelone liberal Democrat Michael Bloomberg, imagines himself to be.

Especially when you're lacking the "benevolent" part:

Mayor Bloomberg had a city clerical worker fired after visiting his office — and getting enraged when he saw a solitaire card game on his computer, The [New York] Post has learned.

Edward Greenwood IX was canned last Tuesday from his approximately $30,000-a-year job with no warning or severance pay after six years working in the city's Albany lobbying office.

Bloomberg is being, as dictators must, totally unapologetic:

"I don't think it was an overreaction at all," the mayor said...

"We pay city employees to do the work that the public expects done," he added. "The workplace is not an appropriate place for games. It's a place where you have to do the job that you're getting paid for."

What a petty little man this is. I don't give a damn how much money he gives to charity, this is simply not the pychological profile of a "benevolent" man.

This is, however, the psychological profile of a rotten businessman. You would think that a man who built an empire on "business journalism" might understand the concept of "productivity." Chain a man not only to his desk but to his "function," and eventually he ceases to function optimally. Let the guy play a game of solitaire, or send an email to his kid, or read a good blog for a few minutes in between "the job that you're getting paid for."

And if you have to be an anal little twerp, then how about giving people a warning?

Oh, right, I forgot — "dictatorship."

Four more years of this moron? That's almost as bad as three more years of George W. Bush.

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