Posted on 11/04/2012 2:44:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The MSM said these crews just misunderstood something...
lol
Now its in writing
If you want to help me out of a jam, pay up suckah!
“............A few weeks ago, I chanced to be in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French colony of 6,000 people on a couple of treeless rocks in the North Atlantic. Every electric line is underground. Indeed, the droll demoiselle who leads tours of the islands makes a point of amusingly drawing American visitors’ attention to this local feature.
If you’re saying, “Whoa, that sounds expensive,” well, our government is more expensive than any government in history — and we have nothing to show for it. Imagine if Obama’s 2009 stimulus had been spent burying every electric pole on the Eastern Seaboard. Instead, just that one Obama bill spent a little shy of a trillion dollars, and no one can point to a single thing it built. “A big storm requires Big Government,” pronounced the New York Times. But Washington is so big-hearted with Big Government it spends $188 million an hour that it doesn’t have — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Ramadan. And yet, mysteriously, multi-trillion-dollar Big Government Obama-style can’t do anything except sluice food stamps to the dependent class, lavish benefits and early retirement packages to the bureaucrats that service them, and so-called government “investment” to approved Obama cronies.
So you can have Big Government bigger (or, anyway, more expensive) than any government’s ever been, and the lights still go out in 17 states — because your president spent 6 trillion bucks and all the country got was a lousy Air Force One bomber jacket for him to wear while posing for a Twitpic answering the phone with his concerned expression.............”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332371/tale-two-crises-mark-steyn
Wow...boggles the mind...
These union goons are some cold hearted bastards...
The NE unions own the politicians and in turn the citizens. This is like the mafia. You will comply and pay in treasure and blood.
I’m glad, unions, keep it up! It’s so endearing ;-)
Scum.
I heard that Christie has intervened on home owners insurance contracts, between home owners and insurance companies. A contract between two parties, and the big man enforces change in terms after agreement.
Where is he on these contracts between two parties, electrical employee and union?
I’m curious as to how many non-union utility companies complied, and paid the union ransom demands placed upon freezing and starving citizens.
This is gonna go “over like a fart in church”, with all those stranded, miserable, suffering people.
There's been a bit of serious government subsidy behind that power system!
NJ outages going great this weekend.
I’ll be sure to send a thank you letter to the NY ibew .
It would be great to see all those out of state utility trucks line up at the border, waiting for permission to help without PAYING for it.
Oh, they’ll moan and complain and then vote for the same stupid liberals who continue to wreck havoc on their lives. Is there something wrong in the brains of people in that area? I just don’t get it. I know Michael Savage has said that liberalism is a mental disorder - and maybe he is right. I’m beginning to wonder.
Would be even better if nor’easter skips over NJ and clobbers Staten island.
Watch the southern volunteers leave the snow to work in NJ:)
We live in a Deep Blue region near Chicago.
My son had the temerity to post this story to his Facebook account. The ad hominem attacks, including denials that this ever happened, which ensued were epic.
I just went to post this link to the thread and it’s been removed by FB after a flagging. (Sounds like “fragging” eh?)
Some folks just can’t stand to hear the truth.
Why wait when you can work in NJ.
We even got cheaper gas.
In 2004 we had miles of electric truck convoys on I4 and I75. i saw a multitude of tags from many states. we had 4 hurricanes back to back.
all i can say is..wow if this doesnt prove the debauchery of unions....
You won't hear ANYTHING against the Unions by the Government, because Unions are their money-laundering subsidiary, to keep the Dues flowing to the DNC.
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