Posted on 10/08/2005 10:38:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
No offense to the poster, but this is recycled news. It's GW's fault.
Regards!
Jen
It's called contingency waste.
By definition, massive amounts of money gets spent on preparing to deal with problems that never actually develop.
For instance, is all the money paid to fire fighters to sit around waiting for the next fire "wasted?"
Was all the money we spent on the military during the Cold War "wasted" because we never used (most of )their weaponry?
If you insist on being prepared for the worst, you will be greatly over-prepared if anything less than the worst happens. Then you are accused of waste.
OTOH, if this ice had been needed and the government had not been able to deliver it, the author of this hit piece would have been the first to denounce the incompetence of the government for not having the ice standing by somewhere.
I get really sick of this idiocy.
I'm kind of confused by the article. Are the trucking companies making $2.25 per mile? That's several times what truck drivers normally make and even fewer get paid for sitting.
A shamockery.
Why is it that this one truck driver is in every story on the "ice fiasco"?
Well how's this Mullinaux? If they didn't do it there would be people like you, listening to the talking heads saying FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers were screwing around and not doing anything. Then you and others who want instant gratification (no, not your kids in the bathroom) would demand their scalps.
Is that clear to you now?
My mother has worked for one of the top paying companies for about 16 years and she makes around 34 cents per mile. Sounds like the government was paying a few drivers to do the driving of many. Typical anyway.
***For instance, is all the money paid to fire fighters to sit around waiting for the next fire "wasted?" ***
Excellent thought!
Also, in my area, and perhaps all over the country, an auto accident can result in the arrival of EMTs, an ambulance, fire trucks, and police. Sometimes only the police are needed to take a record and direct traffic. But if there's a personal injury, or the car bursts into flames, all other responders are needed.
athanellen made Bush do it.
As a resident of a hurricane ravaged area, two things needed most were gasoline and ice. We waited in line every day for ice and water rations from the National guard, and were glad to get it. I had no Idea that the ice came from Florida, but when those big trucks drove down my street in convoys I was thankful they made the long journey.
I know some fellers who are getting $1.75 per mile to pull RVs from FL to LA. My daughter says that's the going rate for this area. And rates are a bit lower here than the rest of the country. She pilots oversize loads and makes $1.25 per mile.
Amazing, a guy who doesn't bow down to the golden calf. Now that's news. Government wasting money? If they didn't waste money that would be news.
This guy is having his 15 minutes of fame, repeating this story over and over to every OLD MEDIA outlet that would print it.
Leave it to the OLD MEDIA to find the one story that makes President Bush look bad.
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