bruce... where da jobs at?

Capt-

Remember, only the people who believed this project would make unskilled people, employed at high paying positions are suckers.

They were foolish enough to think a CBA would change the world, and be abided by.

Pay attention, Ratner isn't the enemy!

PS. If affordable housing is ever built, only the most savy, credit worthy, together members of the poor will get them, and some people will claim that the most needy are not being served.

Everyone else will state: Um, why did you expect that they would be?

The names of the teachers and students constantly change, but the math is always the same.

Marty Markowitz = Homer

Ratner = Mr Burns

Karl = groundskeeper Willie

Whynot = Milhouse

Meanwhile, the citizens of Springfield (Brooklyn) think the local nuclear power plant (government) is competently run.

The show goes on.....

nice photo..about 2 months old the contents even older. No jobs if you were not already in one of the unions...10 or 15 years ago. Everybody hold still jobs are very near just serving stuff inside the building constructed by workers making 50 plus benz Maybe Magic or Jzee will put out more cash to have a job or 2 that pays and has benefits

an article published today on the missing jobs:

http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/02/29/42154-where-are-the-barclays-center-jobs/

Gib Veconi, the treasurer of the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development, points out that although the developers may have promised jobs for Brooklyn residents, they may not be legally bound by their words. “There’s no question that lots of commitments were made in speeches, presentations, and promises,” Veconi said. “But when push came to shove, and the documents were signed, few of the public commitments that were made really made it into the documents.”

Although we likely did not need to invest massive amounts of public funds in order to have an arena built by a private developer, it happened anyway.

Now that the arena is practically open, there is no sense in not enjoying it.

....after all, why should only others get to enjoy something that we all paid for? The transaction is done. Enjoy the games and shows; the time for symbolic protest has passed. It is time to move on.

That said, we should ensure that proponents of using public funds for private profits are forced to state this as their primary motive.

No doubt, they will attempt to point to the arena as being the sole cause of the area's resurgence. If they are able to do this, they will get away with similar wastes of public funds in the future.

We should constantly remind people that public funds played a role changing the area, but that the area surrounding the arena was prospering nicely before the project was approved. We should constantly remain people that only a fool would have not been interested in building an arena at this location, regardless of whether it was heavily subsidized.

We could use stats like this, which show increasing subway ridership (a close correlate to increasing economic activity), prior to the arena's approval and construction.

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) may not get the credit or the blame, but its members can take some solace in knowing that one of the arena's main supporters, Carl Kruger has begun serving prison time for bribery in an unrelated case.

Likewise, DDDB can take some solace in knowing that Bertha Lewis is no longer in charge of an organization that allowed her (and others) to state that public funding for an arena would magically address the complex array of problems faced by NYC's chronically unemployed poor people.

Karma is a bitch.

While merely being "the enemy of my enemy" may not be enough of a basis for a friendship, it is enough to bring a smile to my face.

...an even bigger smile would come if this caused people to question those who promise easy solutions to complex problems.

I have no word on when Rush (the band), or Rush (the idiot) will perform.

However, Barbara Streisand is coming!

I think you are right, Karl is unlikely to sell out.

....One of the many ways he is unlike Bertha.

http://www.barclayscenter.com/

When I am older I will tell the story of a mythical place where the Atlantic once met the Pacific, and a righteous battle was fought against an opponent that the warriors knew they could not defeat.

One of the warriors was a Druid.

Don't just ratify. Beliebe.

This is a fascinating conversation but despite anything that was said, there will be little or no jobs created. Perhaps a few low rent jobs and that is better then no jobs but certainly not what was promised.

Were jobs promised? Of course jobs were promised as that is a part of every deal. Pols believe because they are corrupt or they want to believe, or both.

To think that jobs will be created is to lack a fundamental understanding of capitalism which is the need to return value to the shareholders. Nothing else matters. You might disagree with this from a humanistic standpoint, as I do, but the bottom line is that people on the payroll are very expensive. Each dollar saved goes to the bottom line and payroll is the most controllable expense on a P & L as that is B School 101.

Employees today are like fat. You want as little of it as possible and you work those who DO have jobs like dogs. If they do not like it, the can quit and you simply do not replace them. More money to the bottom line. Sorry to have this viewpoint but it is reality.