bendog
Diamond Member
Anyone watching this cluster mess in Atlanta? Oh, a little snow storm and it shuts down the whole city. Kids spending the night IN school buses. Thousands of abandoned cars on the highway, looking like a Walking Dead episode.
And the Atlanta government is helpless. The stupid police, lazy firemen, incompetent national guard, and idiot politicians, all making excuses.
Well, if they'd GET OUT OF THE WAY and stop taxing us, we could let the PRIVATE sector fix the mess. Corporations like Home Depot, Wal-Mart and dozens of private construction crews could have joined forces, prevented this mess, and fixed what little damage was done.
But OH NO, the mighy government steps in and says they'll protect us all, and fail of course.
Some construction crews from private business and supplies provided by Wal Mart, Lowes, etc, could've all had the preparation done BEFORE the storm, and then respond to problems as they occur.
Rand Paul is 100% right.
Government = FAILURE.
I think this gets the Dumbest Post of the Day award.
1. It was ice, not a little snow. If you live in the north you know the difference.
2. It was the mayor's call, not the federal government. He, like the mayor of N.O. before Katrina, was warned.
Apparently Atlanta purchased lot of new equipment after the last time this happened 3 years ago. Poor to no planning will get you every time. Does that mean Government in general doesn't work? No of course not. But you know the true politicians motto, "never let a crisis go to waste".
Southern cites don't do ice well. They should have closed my office on Tues, but noooooo, everyone got here, and then they got sent home at 10. The commutes were 3x longer both ways, and there have been 400plus accidents in two days. Then they closed the office yesterday till noon. I got in at 9:15 and the roads were ok, though I shouldn't have used the interstate.
Stupid op. Happens all the time down here, only we only get snow maybe once in five years.
ps, Katrina was a different beast, however. They had a plan to avoid a killer storm, but failed ot execute it in NOLA. Miss had 200plus dead, but the system more or less worked, and the dead chose not to evacuate.
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