Read the caption under the 1st picture in Comment-1. Sidewalks of closed schools in Manhattan plowed before vital streets in other boroughs?
The criticism is about the "Grey Poupon" Mayor's elitist priorities, and not about demands to do the impossible. Absent your own possibly elitist loyalties, your conscience need not be conflicted.
Fascinating read. We were not in our NYC home yesterday - we were in our suburban home absolutely snowed in. This is nothing new for Bloomberg - although, obviously, this was the worst storm in quite a while. Bloomberg - the nervous, hypochonriacal, drawfish mayor the city - loves to brag at the end of the winter how much money he saved by not spending the snow budget. And we NYers get stuck walking through miles and miles of snow, slush, black and white ice - a real treat watching the elderly handle the horror. My husband is attempting to go into NYC today. I can’t wait for his report.
“The criticism is about the “Grey Poupon” Mayor’s elitist priorities, and not about demands to do the impossible. Absent your own possibly elitist loyalties, your conscience need not be conflicted.”
I know exactly what this is - its politicians pandering to their core group of constituents, by complaining about city hall. Its a rabble rousing trick...any time there is a large snow, or power outage, or Katrina, etc., there will always be ankle biters trying to make a political name for themselves by criticizing the gubmint for ‘not doing enough’...which pre-supposes that government has the power to fight nature. Only the feeble minded fall for this trick...and I usually annoys me to no end. I was simply pointing out that I liked seeing it happen to Bloomberg....but I know how intellectually dishonest the complaints are.
Me elitist? Nope. But come on...before you jump on every bandwagon, at least acknowledge what you’re getting into.
I will bet that the rabble rousing complainers cited in the story are democrats, with long standing histories of complaints about invisible racism as their political platform. They probably have a little bit of ‘Manhattan always gets priority over the outer boroughs’ sprinkled in as well.
Just know who you’re getting into bed with, that’s all.
I couldn’t resist. Here is the link to the third generation Democrat politician who has levied his complaint against Bloomberg.
I love to see Bloomberg squirm; but, know whose wagon you are hitching onto, before calling me an elitist.
I've been out of Fun City since '02, but isn't there a law that says sidewalks MUST be cleared within an hour or two after the snow stops falling?