Sanitation Department's slow snow clean-up was a budget protest (NYC union thugs)

NY Post ^ | 12/30/10 | SALLY GOLDENBERG, LARRY CELONA and JOSH MARGOLIN

[jimbo123]

These garbage men really stink.

Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.

[samtheman]

Good idea, mewzilla. Just as you can’t depend on the police to be your primary defenders in the case of a home invasion (that’s what your guns are for), so you can’t depend on other government agencies. Stock food, water and medicine. Learn CPR. Get the book “Where There Is No Doctor”.

[Mossad1967]

I understand your point about “Liberal Jews”. I am a right wing conservative Jew. An extremely proud one!!! Do not put all of us together as having the same way of thinking! Believe me I abhor Liberals just as much as you do. There is left and right in every race and nationality. It is what it is!!!

[Mossad1967]

I understand your point about “Liberal Jews”. I am a right wing conservative Jew. An extremely proud one!!! Do not put all of us together as having the same way of thinking! Believe me I abhor Liberals just as much as you do. There is left and right in every race and nationality. It is what it is!!!

[Mossad1967]

I understand your point about “Liberal Jews”. I am a right wing conservative Jew. An extremely proud one!!! Do not put all of us together as having the same way of thinking! Believe me I abhor Liberals just as much as you do. There is left and right in every race and nationality. It is what it is!!!

[Mossad1967]

I understand your point about “Liberal Jews”. I am a right wing conservative Jew. An extremely proud one!!! Do not put all of us together as having the same way of thinking! Believe me I abhor Liberals just as much as you do. There is left and right in every race and nationality. It is what it is!!!

[Mossad1967]

I understand your point about “Liberal Jews”. I am a right wing conservative Jew. An extremely proud one!!! Do not put all of us together as having the same way of thinking! Believe me I abhor Liberals just as much as you do. There is left and right in every race and nationality. It is what it is!!!

[Mossad1967]

I understand your point about “Liberal Jews”. I am a right wing conservative Jew. An extremely proud one!!! Do not put all of us together as having the same way of thinking! Believe me I abhor Liberals just as much as you do. There is left and right in every race and nationality. It is what it is!!!

[mewzilla]

And gently pester loved ones and friends, especially the elderly, to have a plan :)

[mewzilla]

And note to the expletives-deleted in the union who participated in the slowdown...

Meals On Wheels Service Gets Back on Track

Yet more folks you did a great disservice.

[FreeReign]

Sorry, but if the streets had been plowed correctly, the citizens who cleared their cars could not have caused such congestion. Landlords are supposed to keep their sidewalks spotless at all ties least the sanitation cops give them fines. Stop blaming the people who did clean.

In the SUV video, notice how spotless the sidewalk was on the side the SUV was parked. Across the street from it is a park. That sidewalk obviously has not been touched with either a plow or shovel. Landlords keep the city clean, not the sanitation workers.

Yup. One can see it in many of the videos. The sidewalks were cleared. The roads were snowy.

Watching the Times Square cam for a couple of days after the blizzard, the sidewalks were cleaned in a timely manner by the business owners, while the streets remained snow covered.

Private residents and business owners did what they were supposed to do. Government did not.

[americanophile]

As Rahm might say, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."

This could be the catalyst for starting a national debate about the ruinous public employee unions.

[GeronL]

I doubt anyone is charged with anything. These people think they are above the law and the prosecutors probably think so too. Remember the truck being smashed? I read the cops wouldn’t even come out.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Union thugs: do they come any other way?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

God willing, snow and Bloomberg's inept, effete, elitist reaction to this weather crisis will have destroyed his 3rd party attempt to derail a Republican victory in 2012.

What an ass.

[Hoodat]

Great article, thanks.

[mewzilla]

You’re welcome :)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Good discussion on Fox Business:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skEQJzGHUo

[GlockThe Vote]

I’m in the bronx as I type. Gridlock and total chaos due to the horrible job.

[ColdOne]

Of course it is criminal. These Unions , like our government are embolden now a days. Who is going to stop them? It infuriates me to no end. No one has the balls to stop them it seems.

[juliej]

Too many politicos depend on their support to be elected.