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It is funny and ironic that “conservatives” are cheering on one of the most socialistic/populistic outcry since Katrina.

Let me get the logic: there are people who are affected by the hurricane, so stop all activity otherwise that might be “insensitive”. How about you all stop going to restaurants because there are hobos who go to sleep hungry. How about you stop going to the movies because there are unemployed people struggling to make end’s meet. How about you stop going on vacation because it might be insensitive to the poor inner city children who have to live by a crumbling neighborhood.

This insanity has infected conservatives. They have become compassionate conservatives.

You didn’t get the logic. It wasn’t a touchy, feely, compassionate for show issue. It made no sense to devote even one iota of resource to this marathon given the current situation in the metropolitan New York City area.

I think most people think the initial decision of the Mayor to hold such a huge event on the streets of NYC when hundreds of thousands are still without power, in the winter, with another storm on the horizon, was INSANE bravado.
I have business contacts in NYC who are at work, without heat, while at their homes, they have no power at all.
Whether or not they will be at work on Monday will depend upon the availability of gas for their vehicles.
And they consider themselves very fortuneate, because they still have homes and work. They said Bloomburg was insane.

As a conservative, I am naturally compassionate. And realistic.
Having never even visited NYC, I must keep referring back to maps to get a grasp of the scale of the flood and wind damage. By all accounts it is huge and widespread.
As a long term Florida resident, I am very aware that hurricane category storms, even a Cat 1, includes numerous tornadoes, and that a storm surge plus high tide is ominous to anyone near a coast. I shudder to think what adding cold temperatures into the mix would be like.

Thousands of people were already on their way to NYC with the distribution experience and physical items they knew would be most needed. Water, food, clothing, blankets, portable generators etc.

Money is worthless if you can't get to a store...
Who is insensitive/insane here?
The marathon should have been called off Tuesday, when the scope of the physical damage was known.
Next week, fine...NYC will bounce back quickly. Just not this quick.