And quotas. I wonder if this front end loader operator was hired because he/she was the best qualified to operate it, or if he/she was hired to fulfill a quota?
I guess everyone has seen this by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE
Posted on 12/30/2010 1:36:26 AM PST by Huntress
Apparently you haven’t read about the deliberate slow down by the sanitation workers union. This child, and a lot of these people are dead because the union thugs were pissed about budget cuts and they drove past streets that were unpassable with their shovels raised....on purpose.
That is a very sad commentary - it epitomizes what is wrong with our country today.
This is government dependence on a tragic scale. If it’s this bad after a snowstorm, imagine what it will be when the Obamacash is no longer flowing due to city, state, and federal bankruptcies. You do NOT want to be in the cities, people.
Legendary Yankee ingenuity has been subsumed by government dependence, and rendered politically incorrect by union greed.
Was there no way to telephone a doctor in the area who could have trudged thru the snow to help save this baby’s life?
We dare not wait helplessly for the government to take care of us.
IIRC when the sanitation workers threatened Rudy with a strike he told them to go right ahead. That he would privatize the sanitation operation.
End of strike threats.
One of the back stories that I’ve heard repeated by callers to several radio shows recently seems to indicate that New York City brought a lot of this on themselves. In previous years snow plows and loaders from outlying communities were contracted by the city to help remove the snow in NYC. Apparently, last February there was a big dump in NYC and a lot of these snow plows were contracted by NYC to help remove snow. They did and everything was fine until they tried to get paid for their efforts. The city of New York either didn’t pay them or, if they did get paid it was a small percentage of what they were due and even that took 6-8 months. So, this go around when the city put out a call for assistance few responded. Another problem is the new requirements for “diversity training” NYC requires for contractors. No one wants to pay for “diversity training”, much less for a job that doesn’t pay. Funny how that works, isn’t it Mayor Bloomberg?
And quotas. I wonder if this front end loader operator was hired because he/she was the best qualified to operate it, or if he/she was hired to fulfill a quota?
I guess everyone has seen this by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE
“Yeah, but NY city is a low transfat, non smoking, low food salt city per Rabbi Bloomberg et al.”
Plus, the Ground Zero victory mosque is of utmost importance.
I hadn't. I hope the guy who videotaped the damage gives a copy to the owner of the SUV.
I heard the Suburban the loader initially hit was property of the City. He-he-he.....
The people of New York know what to expect out of their city government in the handling of a snow emergency. They are not “stupid” for expecting the city to clear the streets after a storm.
The Unions undermined the clearing of streets. They killed New Yorkers in service to their own greed. It is one thing to get deathly ill during a massive storm when the blocking of transportation can not be helped. It is another to have transportation blocked after the storm for Union greed.
Now that New Yorkers know that city workers are perfectly capable of murdering them to get their benefits, they had best organize other emergency plans for the days after a major snow storm. Also, they had best bust the government worker unions as part of that emergency plan.
This is amazing to me that in a densely populated area like Brooklyn, and with cell phones, there was no way to get her help.
LOL. No Mercy.
I think there may be a back story to this poor pregnant lady. Out-of-wedlock, didn’t tell parents, waited until she was in labor to seek help, etc. I still can feel pity, lol!
How I wish NYers would organize like the Tea Partiers (I am a born, bred and renter in NYC) and destroy that Union. But with Bloomberg already denying the Union’s complicity in this (after all, they support HIM), I very much doubt anything will change.
But before we condemn all NYers, let’s remember their incredible strength and moxie on 9/11.
There is no way in NY aside from walking in the blizzard once the transpirtation system breaks down.
There are no doctors in that area. Only at hospitals and they wont go out. This blizzard was like a cat 1 hurricane, monstrous winds, very hard to walk. No buses.
Didn’t I read this was in Crown Heights?
No doctors, no nurses, no one in the area that could have come to her assistance?
Dear Lord. I wonder if she had had any prenatal care.
I hadn’t seen it. Unreal.
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