Mayor Michael Bloomberg: 'We Need More Foreign Langauge Speakers'

Michael Bloomberg became mayor four months after Rudolph Guiliani, who was mayor during 9/11. With the cooperation of the NYPD, Mayor Bloomberg has been able to take steps to make New York City safer for its residents.

"What we have to do is make sure that we rebuild and that we dont forget the lessons that left us vulnerable and that gave people reasosn to attack us," stated Mayor Bloomberg, "New York City continues to increase the amount of money it spends on preventing terrorism and being able to respond if, God forbid, something happen."

Mayor Bloomberg warns though we need to be protective of our nation, we should not discourage others from immigrating to the United States. "We got to make sure that this country doesn't close its borders. We need to open our borders. It was that xenophobia that really caused this," stated the mayor.

"We need more foreign languages speakers here so we can understand intelligence. We need more foreign people coming here and joining our culture so that we can be less threatening to others and more accepting," Mayor Bloomberg continued.

Of the construction of the Freedom Tower, Mayor Bloomberg said that the process has been "frustratingly slow." "The problem is not incompetence or selfishness or anything. It's just bureaucratic red tape." The mayor cites the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation as an unnecessary layer of bureaucratic red tape.

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