A few years ago a few dozen homes were cut off for twelve days after a windstorm, no heat, transportation, communications. Trees had blocked the roads each way. The first responders had all gone home to deal with their own problems. It was an inconvenient twelve days, and we were on our own, but we did just fine. And I might add some memorable community get-togethers.
Now people in New York are suffering because they depend on Federal State country and city help. All of those agencies have one goal in mind: overtime. People nearing retirement desire to rack up as much as possible to kick themselves up into a higher "last year base" retirement payment.
Newly minted government workers just want a little extra Christmas money. Many are just picking up frequent flyer miles and hotel stay miles by being there, or punching GSA upgrade cards. Even if they had the means to offer any assistance, none have the slightest incentive to do so.
The most ludicrous shortage is gasoline. Now, if all Government workers were simply to go back home, services would be restored and shortages alleviated within a few days. The gasoline shortage is obvious how to solve.
Yes, clean up is a problem. When the windstorm of 2005 had shut down the Seattle area and trapped us, just about every new construction site was abandoned as workers picked up quickie, high paying insurance repair gigs for roofs opened by trees, decks crushed, building damaged. An army of workers moved from new construction to repair construction, and pretty quick all was restored.
I have not bothered to view the news reports any more than I can avoid, because I am not interested in people's self-inflicted suffering. Emma Goldman said society gets the criminals it deserves. Indeed, and I would say especially when it votes them in.
The utilities took the longest to restore because they are politically managed.
FEMA was created in 1979. Before then, people just died on the streets because there was no help. Of course I am kidding. There was relief before FEMA. FEMA's big competitor, the private Red Cross, has been savaged this disaster. Expect it to fade away over time. Too bad, people will forget relief was better before FEMA.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Newly minted government workers just want a little extra Christmas money. Many are just picking up frequent flyer miles and hotel stay miles by being there, or punching GSA upgrade cards. Even if they had the means to offer any assistance, none have the slightest incentive to do so.
The most ludicrous shortage is gasoline. Now, if all Government workers were simply to go back home, services would be restored and shortages alleviated within a few days. The gasoline shortage is obvious how to solve.
Yes, clean up is a problem. When the windstorm of 2005 had shut down the Seattle area and trapped us, just about every new construction site was abandoned as workers picked up quickie, high paying insurance repair gigs for roofs opened by trees, decks crushed, building damaged. An army of workers moved from new construction to repair construction, and pretty quick all was restored.
I have not bothered to view the news reports any more than I can avoid, because I am not interested in people's self-inflicted suffering. Emma Goldman said society gets the criminals it deserves. Indeed, and I would say especially when it votes them in.
The utilities took the longest to restore because they are politically managed.
FEMA was created in 1979. Before then, people just died on the streets because there was no help. Of course I am kidding. There was relief before FEMA. FEMA's big competitor, the private Red Cross, has been savaged this disaster. Expect it to fade away over time. Too bad, people will forget relief was better before FEMA.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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