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NYC's failed storm response has become Mayor Bloomberg's Katrina, Paul Krugman says, accusing...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010, 6:15 PM ETNYC's failed storm response has become Mayor Bloomberg's Katrina, Paul Krugman says, accusing the city's administration of failing to take weather warnings seriously. Krugman may be unaware that some of the slow snow job appears to have been caused by union protests over budget cuts.
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Are better yet, let's see how capital markets work when there is no State to enforce contract law or maintain and monitor the integrity of the monetary supply.
The choice isn't between government big or small. The choice is between good government and bad government.
For those that believe size has no relevance, consider this:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson
Good government does not have to be big
For it already was good when it was small
If small government can not enforce contract law, big government can not do it either
For contract between crooks can not be enforced
But for true civilized people, who reject liberal Satan, and who respect their Father and their Mather and their neighbor, no enforcement is needed
And for other, who are crooked and who in love with liberal Satan or NKVD is their name, big government is the only medicine for keeping them from spreading themselves around
I was born in NY and remember mayor LINDSLEY (as Mike Quill called him; Mike was the head of the subway union) and the failure to move snow wrecked him as it will wreck Bloomburg.
Thank God, I have not had the misery of paying NY taxes in over 40 years.
Over a decade later and Detroit STILL has more city workers per capita than NY or LA, or even Chicago, Miami or Dallas. ALL thanks to strong city unions. Yet, the roads are still not plowed, the trash still piled up, and government/union corruption is still as rampant as the citizen on citizen crimes.
First they cut services, then they gave completely up and now just pretend to cut staff/wages right up until a Judge orders the staff reinstated and the contracts paid. Of course this results in fewer services, highter taxes so they raise taxes (again) and round and round it goes.
Bottom line is, be prepared. We all will be held hostage by contracts, we all will have to figure out how to both pay for ever-increasing taxes while simultaneously paying third parties to do the original job/fix the problem.
Ah, success.
Whether or not the union intentionally did this, or this is the result of a lack of resources, does not truly matter at all.
What NewYorkers (and the rest of us) need to start asking ourselves is, where are we going to get the money to both pay the government AND pay to do the work as well?
The unincorporated, podunk, hated farmville of my youth looks more and more enticing by the day.
And, we see how wonderfully such governments perform when it comes to getting real things done. As someone mentioned, they can micromanage everybody's liberties and salt intake, but cannot perform the basic functions of government.
And thousands are starving in their temporary shelter at the Forest Hills Tennis Club.
Warnings abound not to purchase used automobiles which may have been damaged by snowdrifts in Elmhurst and Park Slope.
Giraffes and hippos at the Bronx Zoo are being slaughtered for their nutritious meat.
While Habitat for Humanity is set to rebuild entire neighborhoods on Staten Island.
You could have stopped right there.
Is it my imagination, or is Tack making Way more sense than usual?
How come noone remembers that the storm was an insurmountable problem for all of the local airports? There were no political motives underlying their difficulties, yet I don't hear any persisting complaints about their difficulties!