Mayor 'Soda Jerk' Fails His Staten Islanders

By all accounts, Staten Island was ground zero when hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast.  It was where the eye came ashore; and, it was extremely hard hit.  People were without food, water, electricity, telephone and cell phone service, and gasoline.  Agencies like FEMA and the Red Cross were urging victims to call or use the Internet if they were in extreme need.  Of course, this is totally ridiculous if you don't have access to any kind of phone service or electricity.

For four days following the storm, Mayor Bloomberg failed this borough by not providing "any" relief.  Instead of sending much needed supplies and work crews into this community, the idiot Mayor sent people to clean up all along the route for the running of the now-cancelled Marathon.

It was only after an NBC news team filmed an impassioned plea for help that, finally, things got going on the fourth day after the storm:

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There have been rumors that Bloomberg has presidential aspirations.  This failure in Staten Island and his silliness regarding soft drink sizes, breast feeding, salt and, now, putting a marathon before the rescue of his people, just proves that he will never be ready to hold the "Big Job" in Washington, D.C. 

How Will Hurricane Sandy Impact The Economy?

Over the last week, I've heard a number of media types declare that there's a silver lining to hurricane Sandy; and, that is jobs.  Jobs to repair and jobs to rebuild.  But, this declaration simply ignores how many jobs will have been killed by this storm.

If you look at the Jersey shorelines, the boardwalks have been obliterated.  These "walks" were accesses to dozens of businesses with hundreds of workers.  Now, those buildings will be idled for months; maybe even years for some.  Other businesses, more inland, suffered severe flooding and may not be able to reopen until the water damage is corrected and inventories replaced.  All told, more jobs will probably be lost to the hurricane than will be created.  Then, too, any jobs that are created won't be lasting.  Once the construction work is over; the workers will go back to being unemployed.

The fact is that Sandy is "currently" estimated to have done about $20 billion in damage; and, certainly, some portion of that amount of money will be used to create jobs.  But, on the other hand, it is estimated that the economy will lose as much as $30 billion in business activity.  That, simplistically, could mean that for every 2 jobs created, 3 may be lost. 

In terms of the overall impact, the above cost totaling $50 billion isn't much when you consider that we have a $15 trillion economy.  In fact, the total impact of this disaster is less than 3-tenths of one percent. But, in an economy that is already weakening, the additive effect of this storm might be more much more significant than what the numbers are telling us.

Sandy Helps Coverup The Benghazi Coverup

With every passing day, we "were" beginning to see that there was a clear coverup with regard to the facts surrounding the attack on our mission in Benghazi; even though this news was being scantily reported by left-leaning media types like the New York Times, MSNBC, and ABC.  Now, hurricane Sandy has come along and what little coverage there had been has, now, been completely pushed aside.

Clearly, advantage Obama.