Snowtastrophe - These days big government cannot get
anything right.
Friday, Jan. 22, 2015 Kevin Dayhoff
At a time when many Americans have lost faith in government
and our government’s ability to do anything with any degree of integrity, capability,
or competence, comes the snowtastrophe Wednesday night in the capital of the
free world, the most powerful nation on earth, Washington DC.
I received first-person testimony by a family member who spend
3 hours on the road in the paralytic chaos that was Washington last Wednesday
night in what might normally take 30 minutes.
No amount of hype or hyperbole can exaggerate how incompetent
the response to barely an inch of snow last Wednesday in Washington DC.
Not to be overlooked is the reputation of the Washington DC
metro subway system. Words such as unsafe, unreliability, unpredictable, and
unreliable come to mind. SMH.
Whether it is providing healthcare to veterans, providing
safe drinking water, or punishing the innocent when they get on an airplane, government
has proven to be incompetent and incapable of the even of the smallest, simplest,
and easiest tasks. Look at the bloated bureaucracy that has swallowed the
postal system.
Look at the government regulations that have over-bureaucratized
the financial industry and sickened healthcare reform. Government has brought
financial institutions and the medical health care delivery system to its knees
with the extra costs and counter-productive and conflicting regulations that
have increased the costs of delivering these vital services to Americans
through the roof.
These days big government cannot get anything right. We
should all be ashamed.
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Meanwhile Petula Dvorak wrote about the response by the
capital of the free world to less than an inch of snow last Wednesday night.
She wrote, “As we’ve proved before, we’re not good at snow.
And on Wednesday night, we proved it again in utterly humiliating fashion,
morphing from a powerful city of powerful people into a demolition-derby,
wagon-training cold mess.
A one-inch snowtastrophe involving at least 1,000 accidents,
eight-hour commutes and cars abandoned on freeways by desperate, disgusted
commuters. Some people hadn’t even made it home by dawn Thursday.
[…]
It was a nearly perfect deja vu of a light snow in 2011 that
generated epic
Twitter
travelogues of misery. Only difference this time? It was more fun to
Snapchat the whole calamity.
[…]
[…]
We’re all worried about ISIS when the truth is, all it takes
to destroy us is a little ice.
Twitter: @petulad
Read more Petula Dvorak:
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Hilarious memes are emerging on social media after
Washington, D.C., was paralyzed by an inch of snow
Wednesday night.
You read that right: An inch of snow.
The snow caused slick conditions on roads. Over 125
accidents were reported, according to police, and hundreds of drivers trapped
in traffic complained of nine-hour long standstills.
"One inch of snow did this. One. Inch. Of. Snow,"
one Twitter user wrote of what some have jokingly dubbed as
"Snowmadeggon" and "Carmageddon."
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser apologized this morning for the
city's "inadequate" response Wednesday night and said officials are
"very sorry."
Users on Twitter and other social media are now posting
hilarious memes and jokes about the "inch of snow" disaster:
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“Horrible.” “Pathetic.” “Painful.” “Unbelievable.” “One inch
of snow did this.”
From every corner of the region and into the wee hours of
the morning, from every highway and byway, motorists vented their anger and
frustration that they were still out there — at 1 a.m., then 2 a.m. and still
at 3 a.m. — because of ice and untreated roads, from a modest early-evening
snowfall that came and went in a few hours.
Snowtastrophe Maryland Snowmageddon Snowpocalypse French
Toast
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