Michael Goodwin NY Post:
Your ‘Sandy’ tax dollars at waste
Reacting to a Wall Street Journal report that the city was paying for hundreds of vacant hotel rooms for nearly a month, some costing $300 a night, Mayor Bloomberg defended the practice. Hurricane Sandy victims are in other rooms, he told reporters, and the city might need more space.
“It’s a de minimis amount of money but it just shows a proactive approach,” the mayor added.
Perhaps, but look at the cost, which Washington ultimately will cover, as a taxpayer.
A New York family that pays, say, $10,000 a year in federal taxes, works hard for that money. Yet their taxes were blown entirely on empty hotel rooms.
Tax hikes? No thanks.
FYI: In New York Post Pregnant Mom with his daughter thanks to FEMA no shelter no hotel room -- something wrong that the City has empty hotel rooms just like the generators they sat on and even finally shamed in to bringing one to Coler and not even plugging it in as elderly sat in the dark and cold.
This link has the NY Post article with photo with Pregger Mom and Child.
They have been failed by NYC NY State and FEMA and they are not alone.
Bethcha Mike is in Bloomberg and Quinn's weekend vacationing in New Jersey or someone where -- she won't even take a subway she enjoys being chauffeured courtesy of tax payers.
Bethcha Mike is in Bloomberg and Quinn's weekend vacationing in New Jersey or someone where -- she won't even take a subway she enjoys being chauffeured courtesy of tax payers.
