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.
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.
Unions are terrorist organizations at laws need to be passed making it a felony to be a member of one.
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The Northeast may be in for another shocker, homeowner insurance increases and in some areas none could be available. I went through hurricanes Francis,Jean(2004) and Wilma(2005) here in SE FL. My homeowners jumped from about $850 per year to $4450 per year. Then you’ll have the power companies asking for increases for all the repairs needed. When the lights go back on, it’s not over.
Long Island power’s outage map is no longer functioning it seems. Late last week it showed 510,000 people without power.
http://www.lipower.org/stormcenter/outagemap.html
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Although ‘born’ in 1939 and - I guess STOOPID - compared to todays youngsters because in 1948 I was wondering about Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians and all the Brooklyn Dodgers who just came back from being ‘away’ - we as 9 year olds would never have thought of going to a rally held by Mrs Truman and telling her that good thing Dewey wasn’t elected because (fill in the blanks) even though the parents sitting around may have been parroting such sentiments etc etc etc....
Now I do remember ‘they’ taught us HISTORY in school and between ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ do recall an incident regarding HST and the Railway Unions.
Seems like they had a dispute and were going to either stop the railroads or go on strike when ‘Give ‘em Hell, Harry’ offered them a ‘deal’ a union goon couldn’t have thought up any better.
It basically went.
Go back to work, enjoying the ‘important’ status of keeping the trains on schedule (Mussolini??) as Union Workers who may be disgruntled OR (DOOR #2) I will draft you into the Army and you can run trains as Privates.
That seemed to have worked and FF to a certain ‘movie actor’ in 1980 that gave the Air Traffic controllers the same ultimatum WITHOUT the option of being a Private in the Army.
Think.....Shall I check under the hood sir? OR
Do you want fries with that.
Of course they were leaders and didn’t spend every waking moment OPENLY campaigning for the next office....
This ought to go over like a lead balloon among the many thousands that are still without power.
Union = Mafia!
I remember hearing a PA school official lament about a gym room, in a school, that was full of mold and making kids sick. I offered to get some parents together to pain the room, and he said- no thanks. The Union would have a fit. The rule is that IF the union CAN do it, that no one can volunteer to do it. It takes money out of their pocket- and they pitch a fit.
And I thought that was horrible.
NJ Unions are insane with greed, it appears.