NY Post: Blame the Garbage Bosses
Today in blizzard finger-pointing: “Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south…
Today in blizzard finger-pointing: “Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action, several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions, attrition and budget cuts.” The subject line of the email from a reader yesterday morn that included this photo: “This is Fulton street?”
Sanitation Department’s Slow Snow Clean-Up Was a Budget Protest [NY Post]
By stringer bell on December 30, 2010 1:23 PM
“Reagan was right about the unions. He was just way ahead of his time.”
so don’t get your panties in a bunch when i say that Reagan loves you!
You didn’t do it in a nice way. I could tell by your tone.
DIBS – if Reagan had “busted the airline and auto unions” – he’d be a dictator. (thought you were for limited government?)
But you are 100% correct the municipal worker unions are going to destroy municipalities with their abuse of the political process to guarantee ridiculous and unfunded pension and retirement healthcare benefits and as if they hadnt pigged out at the trough enough, this whole phony Zadroga bill gives another 4B of benefits. It makes me sick frankly.
“If he had busted the auto unions and the airline unions, not to mention all the state & local unions, we’d be in much better financial shape now than we are. You can’t deny that the union legacy pensions and the abuses that go on there aren’t going to cause a municipal bond meltdown. it has already begun.”
i don’t claim to be an authority. i just don’t categorically dismiss unions.
> CHRISTIE FOR PRESIDENT.
Of Disneyland.
“Reagan was right about the unions. He was just way ahead of his time.”
so don’t get your panties in a bunch when i say that Reagan loves you!
If he had busted the auto unions and the airline unions, not to mention all the state & local unions, we’d be in much better financial shape now than we are. You can’t deny that the union legacy pensions and the abuses that go on there aren’t going to cause a municipal bond meltdown. it has already begun.
Perhaps somebody suggested creative revenge for the budget cuts. Probably not a high level administrator. Definitely things were difficult… I walked around in my neighborhood, bed-stuy, and saw many intersections blocked by cars, stuck in the snow, early monday morning, effectively blocking snowploughs from getting through. Shared blame.
I love how the snow makes so many people giddy and puts them in a good mood! That is what I also saw….
Reagan was right about the unions. He was just way ahead of his time.
CHRISTIE FOR PRESIDENT.
and i’m sorry, but your views on unions are a lot similar to ronny the union-buster reagan’s.