Stephanie
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- Jul 11, 2004
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citizens are hosed to pay for weather in States they don't live in. how lovely. what a gig eh?
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Charging taxpayers for weather lets the administration claim that fighting “global warming,” is costing billions and something must be done.
Big Govt Pays Big for Snow ‘Disaster’
By Michael R. Shannon -- Bio and Archives March 15, 2016
In 1930, if you told big government progressives in coming years they would be able to charge taxpayers for weather while increasing the size and power of the federal government, I doubt you would have been believed.
People weren’t as credulous then.
Today common weather events are declared “disasters” and governors go to Washington begging for federal handouts. That’s how taxpayers in Minnesota and Wisconsin wind up paying for a snow storm in Virginia.
Since the first response of most Americans to a “disaster” is to offer to lend a hand, you’re probably thinking “those poor people,” trapped for weeks like Ernest Shackleton in the Antarctic.
You demand the government spare no expense mounting a rescue effort. In the meantime, the least the feds can do is drop food from helicopters like they did for those Montana cows.
You may also wonder why, in this time of Virginia’s obvious need, no one was sitting outside the grocery store soliciting funds for survivors.
In the meantime, without getting all “Pulp Fiction,” you’d like to know some of the details of the disaster.
How can I make this account acceptable for mixed company?
Here’s the sequence of events: Northern Virginia received a winter storm alert. Weather people hyperventilated. Toilet paper disappeared. Snow fell for two days. Flakes landed on the roadway. Educrats canceled school. Teachers danced. Plows buried parked cars.
Mass transit became missing transit. Private sector workers slid to work. Teachers continued dancing for the rest of the week.
And that’s the sum total of the “disaster.”
Taking care of roads and preparing for weather is a state responsibility, not a federal responsibility. Paying for clearing state roads is the state’s job and the money should be raised from its taxpayers.
Yet the governors of Virginia and Maryland both rushed to declare winter weather a disaster, hoping Uncle Sam would foot the cleanup bill.
All of it here:
Big Govt Pays Big for Snow ‘Disaster’
snip:
Charging taxpayers for weather lets the administration claim that fighting “global warming,” is costing billions and something must be done.
Big Govt Pays Big for Snow ‘Disaster’
By Michael R. Shannon -- Bio and Archives March 15, 2016
In 1930, if you told big government progressives in coming years they would be able to charge taxpayers for weather while increasing the size and power of the federal government, I doubt you would have been believed.
People weren’t as credulous then.
Today common weather events are declared “disasters” and governors go to Washington begging for federal handouts. That’s how taxpayers in Minnesota and Wisconsin wind up paying for a snow storm in Virginia.
Since the first response of most Americans to a “disaster” is to offer to lend a hand, you’re probably thinking “those poor people,” trapped for weeks like Ernest Shackleton in the Antarctic.
You demand the government spare no expense mounting a rescue effort. In the meantime, the least the feds can do is drop food from helicopters like they did for those Montana cows.
You may also wonder why, in this time of Virginia’s obvious need, no one was sitting outside the grocery store soliciting funds for survivors.
In the meantime, without getting all “Pulp Fiction,” you’d like to know some of the details of the disaster.
How can I make this account acceptable for mixed company?
Here’s the sequence of events: Northern Virginia received a winter storm alert. Weather people hyperventilated. Toilet paper disappeared. Snow fell for two days. Flakes landed on the roadway. Educrats canceled school. Teachers danced. Plows buried parked cars.
Mass transit became missing transit. Private sector workers slid to work. Teachers continued dancing for the rest of the week.
And that’s the sum total of the “disaster.”
Taking care of roads and preparing for weather is a state responsibility, not a federal responsibility. Paying for clearing state roads is the state’s job and the money should be raised from its taxpayers.
Yet the governors of Virginia and Maryland both rushed to declare winter weather a disaster, hoping Uncle Sam would foot the cleanup bill.
All of it here:
Big Govt Pays Big for Snow ‘Disaster’
