Two posts at Instapundit highlight the circular logic of today’s society. First up, check out this New York Times paragraph, and the text highlighted by Gerard van der Leun on Mayor Bloomberg’s evacuation plans for Hurricane Irene.
Or the lack thereof:
On Friday, city officials issued what they called an unprecedented order for the evacuation of about 370,000 residents of low-lying areas, warning that Hurricane Irene was such a threat that people living there simply had to get out. Officials also made what they said was another first-of-its-kind decision, announcing plans to shut down the city’s entire transit system Saturday — all 468 subway stations and 840 miles of tracks, and the rest of the nation’s largest mass transit network: thousands of buses in the city, as well as the buses and commuter trains that reach from Midtown Manhattan to the suburbs. — Evacuations Ordered in New York as Hurricane Irene Nears – NYTimes.com
Advertisement
Mayor Bloomberg is one America’s most aggressive pushers of the Nanny State — but its escalating costs and concurrent dwindling demographics are rapidly turning it into the Granny State as Glenn Reynolds writes, leading an Insta-reader to ask:
Reader Clifford Grout writes: “Grandparents were often the family safety net before the fall of extended families and the rise of the welfare state. If we’ve come full circle, then… what’s the point of continuing the welfare state? Wondering…”
Empowering politicians and employing bureaucrats, apparently.
Sheesh. All of these double-standards are enough to make you want to find some politics-free entertainment somewhere.
Say, what’s on ESPN?
Time yet for the next “Bloomberg as serious 3d Party Presidential candidate” article?
Gee, it’s almost like Bloomberg is an incredibly cynical hack who used the non-hurricane as a pretext to save a few million in his budget crisis by cutting off mass transit for the weekend; and that way he wouldn’t have to cut back anything important like limos and drivers and expense accounts.
Bloomberg insists that you use government mass transit, works mightily to ensure that’s the only means of transportation you have, then orders you to evacuate, then takes away said government mass transit so you can’t evacuate.
I guess there’s always Bloomberg’s fabled bike lanes. Get a bike, Granny.
Time for the Jonathan Edwards ‘Sunshine’ meme again: “You can’t even run your own life …”
And his running mate can be Nagin, the infamous Mayor of New Orleans during Katrina, who was incapable of finding the school buses that had been left in parking lots and inundated, along the rest of his city. They deserve each other.
“Grandparents were often the family safety net before the fall of extended families and the rise of the welfare state. If we’ve come full circle, then… what’s the point of continuing the welfare state? Wondering…”
Actually, the parents were the safety net, as the grandparents resorted to relying on their children. Right now the grandparents can be the safety net because they are on welfare.
We need to get rid of the welfare state, and that includes end of life permanent vacations. For many older people, they are living off the wealth created by other people’s children. Leaving those children with less to care for their own parents and their own children. Time to get back to the natural law that if you want to be cared for in your old age, you produce far more than you use over your life, or you have many children you treated well enough that they care for you in your old infirm age.
Paul Azinger is a good guy. He still lives in his home town of Bradenton, FL. My brother works at a restaurant here. Paul comes in occasionally and sits right at the bar and doesn’t try to hide. Most people leave him alone, but he has no problem when people want to chat.