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]
As much as I’m all for private enterprise and, theoretically, privatizations, the municipality alwys gets the shit end of the stick in those transactions because they aren’t as smart as the buyers. The buyers in this case would certainly stick the city with all of the pension obligations.
Our street gets three garbage pickups a week. Do i like that? Yes. Do i think it’s incredibly wasteful, inefficient and basically a socialist make-work scheme for the DOS, of course.
I only pay about $2100 in taxes so i really am not going to complain. When I retire, I’ll do so in another state b/c NYS/NYC taxes are just plain stupid.
I used to be pure as the snow, but I drifted.
My best guess is the whole mess is Pete’s fault.
Some people at the Sanitation Department should be fired. Whatever the reason was, these guys did a pathetic job serving the people of NYC. I would suggest privatizing the service and therefore we wouldn’t have to deal with highly paid useless city employees. And we wouldn’t have to deal with their lucrative pensions for service badly delivered.
Can someone please summarize what i’ve missed so far???
And, BTW, I spoke to Jimmy McMillan, and he says, “The drifts are too damn high!”
Well, I didn’t get my car out, but my block has been (badly) plowed. I’m just staying inside until Spring, which is why I’m on this blog so much today.
“…Or are you saying because the stock is doing well now then that mere fact justifies all past moral and legal contortions?”
WTF does any of this re: AAPL options backdating have to do with the discussion at hand, which has devolved into a pro/anti-union slanging match??
Seems you are just trotting out completely unrelated annecdotes/red-herrings. But in an attempt to understand what you were thinking bringing this in to the conversation, Johnny, is this some response to dibs’ point that Unions are often value-destroying??
If so, then as dibs already noted, this (gasp) morally reprehensible options backdating did NOT destroy meaningful shareholder value. Or, in the parameters of the argument at hand: in many (not all!) cases unions sap value and reduce efficiency; neither of your AAPL or MSFT annecdotes are analogous. You may view them as morally wrong, but neither is an example of the efficiency-sapping we see with many unnecessary unions…
His comment about eroding shareholder value at AAPL would indicate that he knew nothing about the stock and the company other than some tidbit he picked up along the way about options repricing.
It is that sort of inability to analyze and think beyond the insignificant issues that are typically buying opportunities that i was calling into question as he held it up as an example of gross corporate malfeasance.
Obnoxious is in the eye of the beholder.
Did you get your car out or are you posting from deep within a snowbank???
DIBS, do you know for a fact that Johnny doesn’t make enough money to satisfy his lifestyle or do you just assume everyone prays to the same money God that you do? Either way, obnoxious comment.