As a businessman, what do you think about his administration's handling of CityTime? Or the report that the 911 response center is a billion dollars over-budget, and inefficient? I think it's wrong. I think what happened with CityTime—look, I agree 100%. Whoever ripped off the city at CityTime should go to jail. Anybody who does anything wrong, that intentionally steals, should go to jail. I've said that to some of our national leaders, that are beating upon banks in New York. I said to them, "Look. If somebody at the bank intentionally did something wrong or intentionally stole put them in jail! Indict them! Put them in jail!" But when you take an organization—the entire Bank of America or the entire CitiBank or the entire J.P. Morgan—and punish the banks overall, that is wrong. This economy will never, ever turn around if these banks are scared of their own existence.
And when they're scared of their own existence there are no loans being made. Our country's economy will never, ever turn around unless the big, central banks are with it. The regional banks and the smaller regional banks are the ones doing the business right now. Am I talking too much? I'm just telling you the way it is. I'm a plan, vanilla person. I've lived in the city all my life and I just want to make sure we go in the right direction.
