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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]


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  1. “There’s a great example in oregon about raising taxes. the outcome was lower revenues as the rich just disappeared. The rich have the ability to do that. Shelter income, take up residency in a lower tax state, etc, etc, etc.”

    so we should just keep raising the federal taxes! oregon saved.

  2. Some facts:

    The average “poor” individual in the USA lives better than
    the average “middle class” individual in Europe.

    Class warfare is just the fastest way for moron politicians to drum up support for whatever agenda they seem to want to ram down the throats of the American citizenry.

    Don’t buy into it.
    We’re a prosperous nation, no doubt.
    That prosperity has benefited all in this society
    so please spare me the anecdotes about the “poor”.
    We need to hit the reset button for sure, but that doesn’t mean blowing up the capitalist system that has kept the economic engine running for 200 plus years.

  3. Heather, I was a biology major.

    There’s a great example in oregon about raising taxes. the outcome was lower revenues as the rich just disappeared. The rich have the ability to do that. Shelter income, take up residency in a lower tax state, etc, etc, etc.

    The Democrats can’t seem to get this through their thick skulls.

  4. Dave, those 1% are a lot RICHER now. Especially compared to the middle class family whose wage earners just got laid off at fifty, have student loans for their kids, and have no idea how they are going to afford health insurance for themselves for the next fifteen years. Oh, yeah, I know, if those people had just invested in the stock market they’d be fine! Why am I so bitter?

    (For the record, we’ve done quite well with the markets. For what it is worth.)

    I am not one for left wing pablum, and I’m sure AAPL is has good business practices.

    Compared to some of its competition. Of course, competition depends on cheap labor, doesn’t it? Something has to give, and you can’t expect good talent to work for nothing!! These people work HARD! and they went to top schools! They deserve it!

    I’m not sure there’s any solution to building a first world society on the backs of third world labor. I used to work for a semi-famous trader guy and I asked him about this once, back when I was young and idealistic and actually recited a lot of liberal pablum. He liked to compare the third world to the American west. Manifest destiny. A stage all countries go through in their evolution to a perfect free market utopia.

    I mean, sure. That was the mid-nineties. How has the free market utopia been treating us lately, USA? Thoughts? Questions? Comments?

    Okay, art major ranting about economy over now.

  5. “the numbers show a large and ever increasing burden for the middle classes as well, not just the top 1% or the top 10%”

    i don’t think paying more taxes is evil evil evil

  6. stringer, the numbers show a large and ever increasing burden for the middle classes as well, not just the top 1% or the top 10%. Yes, even those under the sacred $250,000 mark.

    The entitled masses living off of the tet of the government has become too large. Some accountability is in order.

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