Honorable Mentions
Michael Bloomberg checking to see if that rattling is still going on between his ears.
Michael Bloomberg
As the media (and anyone with a functioning frontal lobe) have been relentlessly picking on Mayor Bloomberg’s ballooning of the nanny state in New York City, the financial data-services billionaire has jumped into the fray to protect the rights of Chick-fil-a to do business in places like Chicago.
Both New York and Chicago are legendary for upending the rights of U.S. citizens upon the whims of publically elected and privately appointed officials. There is even someone in Chicago who has taken up Bloomberg’s anti-soda crusade, though in the Windy City it has more to do with fattening tax revenues than slimming waistlines. How is it that Bloomberg, who thinks fixing the obesity problem in his city through government controls is not only feasible but also desirable, somehow does not see that his government’s gross overreaching is no different than Proco Moreno’s ham-fisted fumbling with personal liberties?
Dan Cathy believes in an all-mighty and invisible hand that is guiding his fortune. He calls it God... the rest of us call it capitalism.
