News item: Former city official suggests selling bridges for needed NYC revenue.

  GOLD IN THEM THAR BRICKS

The Brooklyn Bridge could easily

Put a billion in the treasury;

No reason why motorists should get

A free ride in crossing over the wet

To The City, as Brooklyn natives call it.

And a toll pays big, so
let’s install it.

Of course the private sector does better

Than government, a hopeless debtor,

So it’s incumbent on the mayor

To sell to an experienced purveyor.

Now George Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ owner,

Is known for taking the limpest boner

And turning it
into a solid gain,

No waste, procrastination or pain.

Ole George’d be happy to buy the bridge–

If he had a billion in his fridge.

No problem.  A simple subsidy

(It’s done all the time) is the remedy.

And he’d collect the tolls and split

Them with the
city, as finances permit.

His Yankee Stadium accountants can

Be counted on for a fairness plan

And in gratitude we’d rename the span

To honor this unique great man.

The Steinbrenner Bridge! It has a ring,

Like good old-fashioned Civic
Sting