Market vs. Power - NYC and WDC respond to snow
Midtown Manhattan came back to life as residents and tourists rejoiced in the warming sunlight, digging out buried cars, heading to Broadway shows and frolicking in massive drifts left by New York City's second-biggest snowstorm in history.
In Washington, where a traffic ban was still in effect, the recovery got off to a slower start, with the entire transit system closed through Sunday. Federal government offices in the Washington area will be closed on Monday, the Office of Personnel Management said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa...
In Washington, where a traffic ban was still in effect, the recovery got off to a slower start, with the entire transit system closed through Sunday. Federal government offices in the Washington area will be closed on Monday, the Office of Personnel Management said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa...
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Where or where is global warming when you really need it. We could have flooded the whole town out like a Grecian Stable, helped restock the crab supply in the Chesapeke and down mother nature and mankind a good turn.
And don't forget the state department who doesn't want to do anything and the Justice department leadership which refuses to do anything.
Times like this suggest we really don't need DC at all. They keep threatening to "close the government" when they run out of money. So do it already.
I was thinking it needs to snow way more often in DC while reading the linked article.
Back in 2000, Reason's Virginia Postrel published The Future and Its Enemies. She included leftwing radical environmentalists with rightwing radical millenarians.
This is a "push or shove" issue for the Gulch. Here in the Gulch, a private firm launching rockets to re-supply the International Space Station does not garner the admiration granted to subsistence farmers waiting for the end of the world. The fundamental question is:What future do you intend for yourself?
For me, in this topic, the fact that NYC - a city of commerce - recovered from a mere snowstorm, while Washington DC - a city of government - did not is a clarion call to "business as usual." (If you do not recognize that phrase from Atlas Shrugged you might want to go back and read the parts you skipped over.)
Digging out
By Frank McGurty and Ian Simpson
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Washington shut down federal government offices, while New York prepared for a normal workday following the worst snowstorm in decades to ravage the East Coast."