There are days when I wonder if the politicians are actually this stupid or if they’re just yanking our chain. Then I look at the corruption, the tax code, the mountains of regulations, their public pronouncements, and the horrific debt they’ve strapped us with at every level and I realize that yes they really are stupid and some are just plain evil.
Double post. It is New York, New York after all.
In New York City, it’s NEVER about personal choice (except when it comes to taking the life of the unborn).
We recently have another Federal mandate to SPEND $27 Million so that all street signs in the NYC area will be changed from ALL CAPS (which they are now), to upper and lower case.
Restaurants are now REQUIRED to post a grading system regarding the quality of their sanitation given by the NYC Inspections Department IN FRONT OF THEIR Restaurants.
This has caused a lot of Restaurant owners scrambling to “convince” (wink wink) inspectors to give them a better grade.
ALL THESE BURDEN TO BUSINESSES IN THE MIDST OF A RECESSION WHERE 1 in 10 people are out of work.
When someone complained to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (Who wants to replace Mayor Bloomberg when his term is up) that we can’t have this burdensome dual flush toilet legislation in the midst of a recession, here’s her response (which should be a classic) :
“When the economy is in the toilet, toilets are the way to bring back the economy”