how COULD we simple folk get ALONG without these experts
Posted on 01/04/2014 8:10:25 AM PST by george76
Rush Limbaugh has come out swinging in defence of the heavily Irish horse and carriage industry in New York’s Central Park after new mayor Bill de Blasio promised to put them off the streets.
Over half the drivers of the 200 horses are Irish, but they are fighting a rearguard action against de Blasio, who had major support from animal rights groups.
De Blasio stated that one of his first acts would be to end the horse and carriage trade and replace it with electric car tours.
"We are going to quickly and aggressively move to make horse carriages no longer a part of the landscape in New York City... They are not humane. ... It's over."
Limbaugh, among others, scoffed at that.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
A lot of these horses are going to be put down. The owners won’t be able to pay for upkeep with no money coming in. I sometimes wonder if the NYC vote was rigged. Was Weiner paid to run to take all the heat off DeBlasio?
Leftist rule by distraction.
Yes. A man on a bicycle.
That just happens to be de Blasio's opinion of little human babies in the womb.
The cost of electing a socialist. Sorry NY, hope you get it in the shorts, long and deep....price of stupidity
That’s like taking the trolley cars out of San Francisco. I know they did at one time but they finally said “ f*&^ *^^t”.
This is the communist way. Distract so you will not think about what’s really wrong so they can continue with their agenda.
Just say back off to these traitors.
De Blasio stated, “ ... horse carriages ... are not humane.”
Always a good idea to read the article before commenting. There is an imbedded YouTube interview with one of the Irish vendors which sheds a lot of light on the both the NYC carriage trade and the Irish involvement in it.
“I had no idea that this was an “Irish” trade. I always thought it was an eccentric trade. Irish immigrants to New York are some of the worst leftist, America-haters I have ever met.”
I wish to heck I could harrumph and say ‘how dare you’ but my fathers family makes it impossible...think Ted Kennedy.
The Irish love Ted Kennedy and despise the IRA. Sometimes my people are just not very bright...
>>Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?<<
If the Germans had bombed Pearl Harbor, it would have been over. You are right.
O, my! Another indication that Di Blasio is a raving maniac.
Right! Destroy all NYC traditions and replace them with squalid, smelly “Occupy” vagrants.
That will really boost the tourist trade!
There would be a grass roots revolution like none other if they banned pet dogs in NYC!
But that by-product feeds the pigeons.
What’s Hi Honor (Highness?) going to do about the 60 or so Police horses? (as of 2011)
“New York’s mounted unit has shrunk considerably over the last decade: it now has 79 police officers and 60 horses...”
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Horses are expensive to keep alive, safe and healthy, and they justify that expense when they are allowed to work. But when the opportunity to work is prohibited, the unintended consequences for most are neglect and ultimately slaughter.
Most horses like to have a job to do.The really good ones look forward to taking their owners for a ride or cutting some cattle.
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