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]
Sometimes I can scarcely believe what I read from the mouths of conservatives. And Legion, seriously? With what you should damn well know as a professional in the field you have chosen — the poor have “access to health care” through ER visits? I take back everything I said and circle the wagons.
And yup. Unions are inside that circle because, as bfarwell said earlier, I’ll take that over the alternative.
As Kevin Keith says, conservatism is like the moral equivalent of a logical contradiction: you can’t really debate it; all you can do is point it out. Those who understand will see, and reject it; those who don’t will continue in ignorant and or deliberately obtuse rants.
My head spins.
Actually, I don’t work.
Except for the child-rearing, and I’d be willing to outsource some of that if it made any economic sense whatsoever to do so.
And I think our taxes are paid in about three months, which seems pretty reasonable to me. If I worked, it might take five months.
“What, exactly, are we working for?”
You work about 5 months a year just to pay your taxes!!!!!!
“I think people forget: municipalities agreed to these pensions. The unions traded stuff for them. That’s what negotiations are all about.”
bfarwell,
I didn’t agree to these outrageous payment schedules and lavish pensions. The idiot politicians did.
Here’s how it works in NYC;
The State Assemblywoman or State Senator gets union support for re-election. This comes in the form of direct contributions or free support for their re-election.
In turn, the politicians sign off on an ever expanding package of benefits and salary for everyone involved, including themselves.
Here’s how the private sector works in New York:
You’re business taxes are going up due to budget shortfalls and the increased spending in Albany and New York City. Have a nice day.
Pay by next month or lose your license and you’re business.
dibs is right, the private sector has been scaling back big time left and right. That’s why there’s no hiring. The
fed, city and state’s response? Increase wages (paid by taxes) and increase hiring (by deficit spending).
Believe it or not, my first bf was a teamster.
Rh, yeah, although these days, the Republic is suffering a bit from trying to be more like America. (And as I just saw on the news, Belfast is having a problem with drinkable water.)
But still, 6 weeks vacation? Affordable healthcare and child care? 40 — or, even 35 — hour work weeks? When did these things become luxuries? Why are we all so willing to give them up? What, exactly, are we working for?
I want a union job. I can stand.
bxgrl, it’s about selling papers.
Why when all these politicians and police commissioner, etc do a press conference do they have to have 10-12 people standing behind them?????
Shouldn’t they be at work???? OH, STUPID ME!!! I FORGOT. THEY”RE ALL UNION!!!!!!!!