Posted on 10/13/2011 5:27:12 AM PDT by workerbee
From the article:
the park is surprisingly clean and life there is surprisingly orderly, even after being occupied by protesters for four weeks.
If it were the Tea Party, they would never have been allowed in the park for even one overnight stay... don’t you get the sense that authorities are treating these miscreants as some parents would treat a temper tantrum child? The parents dare not upset little Johnny lest he wreck the house.
One woman who serves on the “board” for the owners of the park also *works* in the mayor’s “administration”.
I wish!
Just hose the whole lot of them.
They better get the EPA out there to investigate and shut them down.
“surprisingly clean” is a subjective claim and is a great lesson in relativity.
A more complete and honest description would have been, “The park was surprisingly clean considering who was occupying it for the past three weeks”
You said exactly what I was thinking! LOL
Knowing this as true, I totally agree that they should foot the cleanup bill.
“The parents dare not upset little Johnny lest he wreck the house.”
You nailed that one. The parenting today is worse than atrocious. My oldest daughter, now 24, was in a playgroup twenty years ago in a liberal area (near Bennington Vt., Bennington College types, etc.) and the mothers would not ever say No or discipline their children EVER in any way!! They seemed to take pride in allowing every bad behavior to go unnoticed. This included biting and hitting the other children. I was appalled and didn’t partake in the playgroup anymore. This does not mean I was a harsh authoritarian mother - I was not - but a firm no meant no. A sense of discipline can be instilled without cruelty. These hippie type parents (all with liberal college degrees) could not grasp this concept.
I know twenty years ago is a long time and may seem to not apply anymore, however while raising our youngest (now 13), I experienced this overly permissive parenting getting worse and worse and the results are showing up in Zucotti Park like situations with the “adults” (Bloomberg, etc.,) in charge actually intimidated and giving in. The children tyrannize the parents - parallel to your statement.
In many households in this day and age - the children (even toddler age!) are in charge! TV shows foster this - the shows watched by youngsters ALWAYS portray the parents as goofy, confused, inept., etc.
We reap what we sow. It’s going to get worse because this generation was badly raised. Of course there are wonderful exceptions, but the peer pressure for these parents is as described above, and countless numbers conform to this dreadful permissiveness. Thanks, Dr. Spock.
My thoughts as well. Make the bastards clean up after themselves. It might do them some good. It’s called responsibility, but of course Leftist’s such as Bloomberg don’t want to force such things as responsibility on them. It would be so judgemental.
“Just hose the whole lot of them.”
Heeheeeheee - funny! I would like to see it.
Hold my spot.I have to go get the new Iphone.
It appears to me that the protesters need cleaning at least as much as the park itself. I’d say at least run them through a rinse cycle.
Well, looky here:
"Could the fact that the parent company of Brookfield Properties received a “green energy” loan guarantee from the Obama administration for a New Hampshire wind farm have anything to do with it?
In the name of “green energy,” the Obama administration is using taxpayer money to subsidize a New Hampshire wind farm that is a subsidiary of a hugely profitable company.
New Hampshire’s largest wind farm, the Granite Reliable Power project under construction in Coos County, is jointly owned by BAIF Granite Holdings, LLC and Freshnet Wind Energy, LLC. BAIF owns 75 percent of Granite Reliable. BAIF Granite Holdings was created earlier this year by Brookfield Renewable Power, which is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management of New York.
That company, which runs clean energy operations around the world, has deep pockets. It reported net income of $454 million in 2009 and $3.2 billion in 2010. Brookfield Renewable Power financed the creation of BAIF Granite Holdings from its Brookfield Americas Infrastructure fund, which was reported in February to have $2.7 billion in assets. With that kind of backing, it is curious that the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would guarantee up to 80 percent of a $168.9 million loan for the Granite Reliable wind farm project last week. (Read More)
Isn’t it curious that such a prosperous company would need loan guarantees from a bankrupt government? I guess not, when you realize that Joe Biden’s son is a partner in the lobbying firm Brookfield employed..."
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