[Freepmanchew]

All the while Doherty, the NY Sanitation head has his street cleaned in record time.

By the way, MSF BU, I did see photos of private companies plowing driveways and all. My brother does such thing in Minn for private businesses when ever it snows. He has on going contracts that he just attaches a plow to his truck for. Good money when everyone else is stuck.

However, he told me that if he gets caught plowing public roads he could be fined and lose his truck. Union rules has the government by the balls. They need to use them or no one on public roads.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In Massachusetts, the bulk of plowing is done by private contractors. The legislature makes a fuss about paying them (especially if there’s a Republican governor) and they are lucky to get paid by July. Under Romney (especially) and other Republican governors, they do a pretty good job. Dukakis was a disaster. We had a bigger storm in 2003 than the Blizzard of ‘78 and no one hardly noticed, because Romney plowed the friggin’ roads. The State was litterally shut down for a week in ‘78. Litterally.

The first blizzard under Coupe De Val, the roads were packed with washerboard ice. Seems Coupe had appointed a Greenie highway commissioner who thought the world would be better off if everyone just took a few snow days every year. Since he wanted to survive politically, D’eval disabused her of that notion.

(Coupe De Val because Coupe traded in the Governor’s Lincoln Police Interceptor for an Escalade, claiming Lincoln no longer made the Police Interceptor, a claim which Ford’s Lincoln division marketing department vigorously denied. He later backed off that story.)

[MSF BU]

Lose his truck? What an interesting system. Snow is blowing in here and I’ll probably plow the entire road in the subdivision just to get back and forth.