{"id":21666,"date":"2010-12-29T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21666"},"modified":"2010-12-29T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:52:03","slug":"crybabies-and-apologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21666","title":{"rendered":"Crybabies and apologists"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching with some measure of humor the antics of New Yorkers and their mayor this week. Apparently, crybaby New Yorkers<\/a> “woke up two days straight to an unplowed street outside my frontdoor,” said city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. “This is not business as usual, and frustration is mounting.”” Oh, my goodness…two days? Imagine how distraught Mr. deBlasio would have been ig he’d lived across the State in Redwood, NY in January 1998 when we went without passable streets and electricity for 16 days.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more humorous is Mayor Bloomberg<\/a> who is alternately telling New Yorkers that he has everything under control and not to expect the government to do much for New Yorkers;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot do everything all the time and we are doing the best we can. I think that this city has pulled together. I don\u2019t think that we should sit around and think the end of the world is here. We cannot be every place at all times but, if you look around, the people behind me are the best in this country to lead this city and to provide the services we need. We won\u2019t get to everybody every time. We will make mistakes. But we have to continue plugging ahead. Yelling about it and complaining doesn\u2019t help.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is not that government “can’t do everything all of the time”, though that’s why we pay them. Government can’t really do much of anything correctly. In fact, aren’t we usually surprised when we get our driver license on time, or they don’t screw up our property taxes?<\/p>\n

After hurricane Katrina, I’m surprised that there are still people who depend on any level of their government for anything. Government is the reason I have guns stashed all over my house. I know they won’t protect me from criminals, so it’s up to me. I have a snowblower because I can’t depend on them to clear my street.<\/p>\n

In fact, I think that’s why most former military members are conservative because we’ve seen up close how incompetent the government can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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