Posted on 11/05/2012 7:00:21 AM PST by Zakeet
What a run-around!
The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday.
And that’s not all — stashed near the finish line of the canceled marathon were 20 heaters, tens of thousands of Mylar “space” blankets, jackets, 106 crates of apples and peanuts, at least 14 pallets of bottled water and 22 five-gallon jugs of water.
This while people who lost their homes in the Rockaways, Coney Island and Staten Island were freezing and going hungry.
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I'm keeping the supplies stashed because we have a shortage of union goons to move them ... if I let the stuff loose, they might be used to help prepare unhealthy 24 ounce soft drinks.
Nagin had school busses, Bloomy had generators.
Truck drivers carrying power transformers turned away. I think they did deliver but it took 3 days to do so.
Bloomberg is, and has, dropped the ball
Those generators can’t be used for the disaster victims; Bloomberg probably has them promised as patronage gifts to different people who he owes favors to.
I'd say that a Class Action Suit ... will happen.
Everyone in the MSM should make a pilgrimage to Texas get on their knees and kiss GW Bush’s A## and beg forgiveness for how they treated him after Katrina. The epic amount of pure fail from the libtards running the City, State and Federal response to this disaster is epic.
Really? But Obama in his (unearned) flight jacket looked so... so... commanding!
I heard all that stuff is privately owned. Bloomberg can’t touch it.
Yes. I agree.
The way Bush was treated was criminal. ALL the blame was put on him.
Here’s how it works. When there’s a disaster, the media looks for the nearest Republican, and then dumps a heap of $hit on him.
Why is anyone surprised.
The school buses were all owned by a private company and by the time anyone figured out they needed them, the buses were already flooded. Probably the generators are privately owned as well. At least the generators aren’t underwater.
Same as with truck crews in Jersey: the loyalty of the union thugs is solely to the union, not to their neighbors, their state or their nation.
Despicable.
The generators, food and water are private property, not city property. Until someone with the owner’s authority authorizes it, the city has no right to take it.
That said, I’m disappointed that the NY Road Runners Club or whoever is owner has not yet offered it.
Like the window washers say, We feel your pane.
Plans are being formulated, formulae being planned, meetings held and holdings met...we’ll get back to you but not quite yet.
Meanwhile, no large sugar drink or public cigarette, your throat is dry, your feet are wet...we’ll get back to you but not quite yet.
If you’d join the union and pay your dues, you’ll get a blanket and dry shoes, you’ll get a heater warm and bright for your vote if it’s right and we’ll have to vett....we’ll get back to you but not quite yet.
Heckuvajob Mr. President!
Not!
Where’s that Bud guy photo from Katrina. He needs to be carrying water bottles for Sandy.
And those NYC lib-dem morons/idiots have and will keep voting him and his nazis back into office, unendingly.
Assuming that Bloomberg actually believes in private property rights, you are correct.
HOWEVER, the generators and supplies aren't there out of the kindness of the owners hearts. They are there because a contract is being fulfilled. Since there is a need for them elsewhere, and these are currently available, it would be trivial to contact the owners and get a contract in place so they could be used for those in need.
VERY GOOD!
The Looter Guy in New Orleans was carrying Heinekens! Nothing but the best for Katrina victims.
-PJ
So where is FEMA?
Don't know current fedgov law, but it used to be that unused resources (private property) could be commandeered to save lives. It's the ONLY time I'm okay with private property being seized, as long as such property is just sitting there.
Where’s that Bud guy photo from Katrina. He needs to be carrying water bottles for Sandy.
Assuming that Bloomberg actually believes in private property rights, you are correct.
HOWEVER, the generators and supplies aren't there out of the kindness of the owners hearts. They are there because a contract is being fulfilled. Since there is a need for them elsewhere, and these are currently available, it would be trivial to contact the owners and get a contract in place so they could be used for those in need."
In other words, has any pea brain with the city thought to ask... ?
That’s just great.
Mayor, you are a fake, a fraud, a shyster.
Those damn things should have been deployed three days when you belatedly got around to cancelling your vaunted marathon.
Jack Wagon.
There is nothing stopping him from renting them.
In fact, they were being rented for the event and I’m sure the owners would love the revenue.
You’re welcome and welcome to it.
He’s back!
I'm sorry but people's live are at stake. Yes this stuff maybe a band-aid to the problem, but if it helps save lives then its worth it. People need to do the humane thing in this situation and if that means stealing the supplies that are just sitting around rotting, then steal them. I am more than pissed off at how NYC, the state of NY and Obama are reacting to this. PEOPLE ARE DYING...the way they get the stuff they need is irrelevant at this point. Just get them some help.
1. In New Orleans, we don't have "higher ground".
2. School bus drivers are not first responders. They are not trained or paid for stressful, hazardous duty requiring capacity for independent thought and quick decisions. They certainly have not signed up for it. A day before Katrina's landfall, school bus drivers were taking care of their families and property and considering their options like everyone else. The notion that such people are available on short notice to man a mass evacuation (to where?) are, to put it mildly, unrealistic.
Wonder if you would say that if it was YOUR stuff being stolen. If you would steal "to save life" as you put it, then you would probably steal for a lesser cause, especially if it could be called "saving life".
Stealing is stealing, no matter who does it to whom.
When the government commandeers private property and then compensates the owners later, that is not stealing. The Constitution provides for that.
But in New Orleans...
You cannot excuse the incompetence that easily.
I understand what you are saying, its just frustrating seeing whats going on there. It seems like no one is doing anything about it. They are living in a survival of the fittest situation at the moment, and in those situations, unfortunately, all bets are off when it comes to living or dying.
where’s the leadership?...surely, somebody HAD to know about all these supplies....
Bring up a couple of generations under socialism and all the "gumption" is bred out of them. They are well trained to stay in line and wait for "somebody else" to act, even while they huddle, starve and complain.
In places where there is no nanny state (such as America used to be) the people get up from an event like this, dust themselves off, and come back stronger than ever.
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