It’s stories like this that make you wish Hurricane Sandy had finished the job and wiped NYC and the elitist slimy fucks that inhabit that den of thieves off the face of the earth.
They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.
Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned.
REUTERS
Rich moms shamelessly hire disabled tour guides so their kids can cut long lines.
The “black-market Disney guides” run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day.
“My daughter waited one minute to get on ‘It’s a Small World’ — the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours,” crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida.
Dr. Wednesday Martin, social anthropologist who discovered scheme.
“You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she sniffed. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”
The woman said she hired a Dream Tours guide to escort her, her husband and their 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter through the park in a motorized scooter with a “handicapped” sign on it. The group was sent straight to an auxiliary entrance at the front of each attraction.
Disney allows each guest who needs a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a “more convenient entrance.”
The Florida entertainment mecca warns that there “may be a waiting period before boarding.” But the consensus among upper-crust moms who have used the illicit handicap tactic is that the trick is well worth the cost.
Not only is their “black-market tour guide” more efficient than Disney World’s VIP Tours, it’s cheaper, too.
Disney Tours offers a VIP guide and fast passes for $310 to $380 per hour.
Passing around the rogue guide service’s phone number recently became a shameless ritual among Manhattan’s private-school set during spring break. The service asks who referred you before they even take your call.
“It’s insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully,” said social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin, who caught wind of the underground network while doing research for her upcoming book “Primates of Park Avenue.”
“Who wants a speed pass when you can use your black-market handicapped guide to circumvent the lines all together?” she said.
“So when you’re doing it, you’re affirming that you are one of the privileged insiders who has and shares this information.”
Ryan Clement runs Dream Tours Florida with girlfriend Jacie Christiano, whom the rich Manhattan mom indicated was her family’s guide.
A working phone number for Christiano couldn’t be found, and Clement refused to put The Post through to her. A message left on Facebook was not immediately returned by Christiano.
Clement denied that his gal pal uses her disability to bypass lines. He said she has an auto-immune disorder and acknowledged that she uses a scooter on the job.
Disney did not return repeated requests for comment.
Here is the best part. These are the 80% that actually thought they were smart enough to go to college. Imagine how stupid the morons who aren’t even trying to get into college must be. With this disgraceful performance, you’d think Bloomie wouldn’t have so much time to focus on soda and salt content. Do you really think the $1 trillion of student loan debt will be repaid? Really?
Approximately 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read well enough for community college
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has built quite a legacy for himself cracking down on soda, salt and, just the other day, loud ear buds.
Nevertheless, as CBS New York reports, Bloomberg might want to spare a few minutes to focus on this shocking statistic: Almost 80 percent of all New York City high school graduates who want to enroll in the City University’s community college system must first relearn basic reading, writing and math.
All told, approximately 11,000 would-be students are required to take remedial courses each year.
The problem has gotten so bad and institutionalized that City University system officials have introduced a program called CUNY Start that provides inexpensive immersion classes for students who managed to graduate high school without mastering basic skills.
“They get lost sometimes in the classroom and in CUNY Start we give them a lot more one-on-one attention, small group work,” Sherry Mason, a teacher in the program, told CBS Local. “It helps them achieve more in a short amount of time and so they’re able to get on with their credit classes.”
A student in the remedial skills program told CBS Local he was very happy with it.
“I knew I needed to take remedial,” said Nicholas Gonzalez, who graduated from Brooklyn’s New Utrecht High School. “If I started right away with credit classes it wasn’t going to be so well, so it’s better off starting somewhere.”
The New York City Department of Education noted that the percentage of students requiring remedial courses used to be even higher, and has only slightly decreased in recent years.
While nearly 80 percent of students who graduate from New York Public Schools can’t read well enough to attend community college, they can at least frolic in all the unprotected sex they want without fretting over the natural consequences.
The Bloomberg administration used 40 individual “school-based health centers” to lavish nearly 13,000 free doses of Plan B — the “morning-after pill” — on students during the 2011-12 school year.
I predict another application for the SSDI program and a $500,000 lawsuit award to this fat ass paid by the NYC taxpayers. AWD should have a field day with this story.
A heavyset woman caved through an Upper East Side sidewalk last night — dropping six feet into a huge hole where she was eventually pulled out by emergency crews using a crane-like rescue unit, authorities said.
The 31-year-old Queens woman was huddled up against the wall of Atomic Wings at the Blue Room Grill on the corner of East 60th Street and Second Avenue, seeking shelter from the rain while waiting for a bus, when the sidewalk below her gave way around 9:15 p.m., witnesses said.
“The woman was enormous. She had to be more than 300 pounds,” said Daniel Crumity, 44, of Queens, who watched in disbelief from a window inside the Blue Room. “The ground literally fell out from underneath her.
“It happened so fast she did not scream or anything. Everybody in the bar got up to look.”
She was taken to Cornell Hospital where she was treated for shoulder injuries and listed in stable condition.
The woman fell straight through the concrete into an area below that appeared to lead to the restaurant’s basement, witnesses added.
FDNY Fire Chief Thomas Jemmott said the woman had to be pulled up in “high-angle rescue unit” resembling a crane with cargo netting.
“Pretty sophisticated stuff,” he said. “She is a very large person, but we were able to secure her and stabilize her and lift her out of the hole.”
Messages left with the city’s Buildings Department and Transportation Department went unanswered.
Tough guy Michael Bloomberg who boasts about having a bigger army than France is down in the swamps of Washington DC begging for your money to repair his fucked up city. Maybe he should lay off some 32 ounce soda inspectors to save some dough. Maybe he can layoff some of the thousands of NYPD that can’t shoot straight. Maybe he should raise taxes on anyone stupid enough to live in NYC.
But that’s not how liberal douchebags roll. They want someone else to pay their bills. This asshole spent his money on liberal do-gooder shit and anti-terrorist crap for the last decade. The assholes who’ve run NYC for decades could have spent their money preparing for a flood that was always going to come. They spent nothing on preparation. Now these scumbags want the American taxpayer to take it up the ass for their malfeasance. Bull fucking shit. Bloomberg can blow me.
As the worthless dimwits in Washington DC debate miniscule budget cuts, tough guys Bloomberg and Christie are begging for $79 billion of your tax dollars so they can rebuild in the same fucking places that just flooded. They will rebuild in the exact places that they know will be flooded again. Our beloved FEMA has only $5 billion in the coffers. Why should people in Nebraska or Iowa pay for douchebags in NYC and NJ to rebuild their mansion on the beach, 50 yards from the ocean? They shouldn’t. Let the people of NJ and NYC decide how to fund their idiocracy. They chose to live in areas that have flooded in the past and will flood in the future.
I’m sick and tired of the victim psychology that permeates this country. Everyone’s a victim. It’s never their fault. They must be saved. Tough shit. Buy insurance. Don’t live in a flood zone. Prepare for a rainy day. Bloomberg and Christie can kiss my fat ass.
NY mayor seeks more disaster aid for Sandy victims
By ANDREW MIGA
Associated Press
Wednesday, November 28,2012
WASHINGTON — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed to congressional leaders Wednesday for quick action on providing tens of billions of dollars in new federal aid to help his city and state and others recover from Superstorm Sandy but was told it might be some time before it’s forthcoming — and it likely won’t be all at once.
Bloomberg met with more than a half-dozen lawmakers, including several who chair or sit on committees controlling the government’s purse strings, as well and both parties’ leaders in the House and Senate.
“Hurricane recovery is not a partisan issue,” he told reporters at a news conference in between the meetings. “We have to bring together both sides in Washington.”
New York state alone is seeking $42 billion in additional federal aid. New Jersey is seeking federal aid to cover most of the nearly $37 billion cost for recovery and rebuilding.
So far about $2 billion in federal funds — about half for direct assistance to individuals — have been provided to the two most heavily damaged states and nine others in the storm’s path. There’s about $5 billion left in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund, but last year’s budget agreement permits President Barack Obama to seek another $5.4 billion without hitting a ceiling on spending.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a member of the Appropriations Committee and the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee that oversees disaster relief, struck a skeptical note after her meeting with the mayor.
“It’s going to be a hard sell,” she said, given Congress’s preoccupation with the fiscal cliff crisis and tight budget restraints. Reflecting a line taken in the past by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and other fiscal conservatives, she said at least some of the new spending for Sandy relief and rebuilding should be offset by spending cuts in other government programs.
“Otherwise it’s just going to be added to the debt and that makes it even more difficult for us to deal with the fiscal challenges,” she said.
Collins said she needs to see more detailed numbers on damages before deciding on how much Sandy aid is needed. But she said New York’s request is “reasonable” if the damages can be documented and added that state and city officials have not tried to exaggerate the damages, as she claims happened with Hurricane Katrina seven years ago.
Bloomberg and Schumer said they were pressing White House officials for as much money as possible, as soon as possible, but they didn’t know what amount Obama will seek. Whatever it is, the request could get tied up in the talks aimed at averting the fiscal cliff — a $6 trillion combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts — beginning in January.
“There’s no doubt this is going to be a hard fight,” said Schumer. “We have a Congress that is decidedly less friendly to disaster aid than any in 100 years. We’re in very strenuous negotiations over the fiscal cliff. We know money is short in Washington, just as it is in New York.”
Schumer said he expects the fight for Sandy money to drag on for months and that several emergency spending bills will be needed. State officials worry that Congress’s desire to satisfy the hunger for aid will fade as time wears on.
“So far we believe our colleagues have been very receptive,” said Schumer. “But there’s a long road to go and there are going to be many pitfalls in the way, particularly given the climate in Washington and the shortage in money.”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that it’s up to New Jersey’s congressional delegation — made up of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats — to fight for the $37 billion in additional aid that he’s seeking. He said he and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo have agreed not to compete with one another for federal funds.
“We’re not going to allow any political forces in Washington, D.C., to divide and conquer us,” Christie said. “We going to go down there as a team, we’re going to work together and advocate for the numbers we put forward.”
States other than New York and New Jersey now getting federal aid for Sandy are West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, as well as the District of Columbia.
Keep thinking your government will protect you. Keep thinking your government will keep you safe. Keep thinking your government will feed, cloth and keep you warm. Government can’t manage its way out of a wet paper bag. It is bloated, slow, bureaucratic, inefficient, corrupt, unionized, and run by drones and incompetent fools who couldn’t make it in the real world.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg says up to 40,000 may need relocation
NEW YORK
Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan region — and another powerful storm forecast for the middle of the week — added to their misfortunes and deepened the gloom.
With overnight temperatures sinking into the 30s and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without electricity six days after Sandy howled through, people piled on layers of clothes, and New York City officials handed out blankets and urged victims to go to overnight shelters or daytime warming centers.
At the same time, government leaders began to grapple with a daunting longer-term problem: where to find housing for the tens of thousands of people whose homes could be uninhabitable for weeks or months because of a combination of storm damage and cold weather.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said 30,000 to 40,000 New Yorkers may need to be relocated — a monumental task in a city where housing is scarce and expensive — though he said that number would probably drop to 20,000 within a couple of weeks as power is restored in more places.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday federal agencies are looking for apartments and hotel rooms for people displaced by Superstorm Sandy, Reuters reports.
“Our goal is to try to get people out of the shelters,” Napolitano said at a news conference in New Jersey with Governor Chris Christie.
In a heavily flooded Staten Island neighborhood, Sara Zavala spent the night under two blankets and layers of clothing because the power was out. She had a propane heater but turned it on for only a couple of hours in the morning. She did not want to sleep with it running at night.
“When I woke up, I was like, `It’s freezing.’ And I thought, `This can’t go on too much longer,”‘ said Zavala, a nursing home admissions coordinator.
Nearly a week after Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline in an assault that killed more than 100 people in 10 states, gasoline shortages persisted across the region, though odd-even rationing got under way in northern New Jersey in an echo of the gas crisis of the 1970s. More than 900,000 homes and businesses were still without power in New Jersey, and nearly 700,000 in New York City, its northern suburbs and Long Island.
With more subways running and most city schools reopening on Monday, large swaths of the city were getting back to something resembling normal. But the week could bring new challenges, namely an Election Day without power in hundreds of polling places, and a nor’easter expected hit by Wednesday, with the potential for 55 mph gusts and more beach erosion, flooding and rain.
“Well, the first storm flooded me out, and my landlord tells me there’s a big crack in the ceiling, so I guess there’s a chance this storm could do more damage,” John Lewis said at a shelter in New Rochelle, N.Y. “I was hoping to get back in there sooner rather than later, but it doesn’t look good.”
Voting machines in hundreds of locations will be operating on generator power, some polling stations are being moved and there are likely to be delays in reporting election results in a few closely contested races because of extended deadlines for counting ballots cast by mail.
Churchgoers packed the pews Sunday in parkas, scarves and boots and looked for solace in faith.
At the chilly Church of St. Rose in Belmar, N.J., its streets still slippery with foul-smelling mud, Roman Catholic Bishop David O’Connell said he had no good answer for why God would allow such destruction. But he assured parishioners: “There’s more good, and there’s more joy, and there’s more happiness in life than there is the opposite. And it will be back.”
In the heart of the Staten Island disaster zone, the Rev. Steve Martino of Movement Church headed a volunteer effort that had scores of people delivering supplies in grocery carts and cleaning out ruined homes. Around midday, the work stopped, and volunteer and victim alike bowed their heads in prayer.
In the crowd was Stacie Piacentino. After a singularly difficult week, she said, “it’s good to feel God again.”
After the abrupt cancellation of Sunday’s New York City Marathon, some of those who had been planning to run the 26.2-mile race through the city streets instead volunteered their time, handing out toothbrushes, batteries, sweatshirts and other supplies on Staten Island.
Thousands of other athletes from around the world ran anyway inside Central Park, where a little more than four laps around it amounted to a marathon. “A lot of people just want to finish what they’ve started,” said Lance Svendsen, organizer of a group called Run Anyway.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York state is facing “a massive, massive housing problem” for those whose neighborhoods or buildings are in such bad shape that they won’t have power for weeks or months.
“I don’t know that anybody has ever taken this number of people and found housing for them overnight,” Bloomberg said. “We don’t have a lot of empty housing in this city,” he added. “We’re not going to let anybody go sleeping in the streets. … But it’s a challenge, and we’re working on it.”
The mayor and the governor gave no details of where and how the victims might be housed.
After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita smashed the Gulf Coast in 2005, hundreds of thousands of victims were put up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in trailers, hotels, cruise ships and apartments across several states for months and even years.
George W. Contreras, associate director of the emergency and disaster management program at Metropolitan College of New York, speculated that large encampments of trailers might be set up at a stadium, in a park or in some other open space in the city — something he couldn’t recall being done in New York ever before.
“The amount of actual units the city might have in buildings is probably very limited, so I think people will be in FEMA shelters for a while,” he said.
On a basketball court flanked by powerless apartment buildings in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, volunteers for the city handed out bagels, diapers, water, blankets and other necessities. Genice Josey stuffed a blanket into a garbage bag.
“Nights are the worst because you feel like you’re outside when you’re inside,” said Josey, who sleeps under three blankets and wears longjohns under her pajamas. “You shiver yourself to sleep.” She added: “It’s like we’re going back to barbaric times where we had to go find food and clothing and shelter.”
On Staten Island, emergency management officials distributed leaflets urging people to take shelter from the cold. But “people are apprehensive and don’t want to leave their houses. It’s a definite problem,” said Fred Melendez, who helped run a shelter at Tottenville High School that was nearly empty of storm victims Sunday afternoon.
Fearing looters, Nick Veros and his relatives were hoping to hold out in their storm-damaged Staten Island home until power was restored. He figured the indoor temperature would plunge into the 40s.
“If we get two consecutive below-freezing days, I’m probably going to have to drain the water out of the pipes,” he said, “and then we’ll have to get out of the house.”
Rudy Giuliani: FEMA as bad as in Katrina
By: Katie Glueck
November 5, 2012 10:19 AM EST
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed FEMA and President Barack Obama on Monday over the response to super storm Sandy-inflicted damages, saying the emergency agency is failing as badly to as it did during Katrina.
“The response since the time the president got all this praise and credit and press ops has been abysmal,” Giuliani said on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom.” “FEMA is as much a failure now as at the time of Katrina.”
Giuliani, a 2008 presidential candidate, said that he did not “understand” why New York was facing water, generators and gas shortages.
“It’s quite obvious they didn’t pre-plan for water, they didn’t pre-plan for the generators, they didn’t pre-plan for the gasoline,” he said.
He bashed Obama for losing “focus” on the subject.
“The president getting all this credit so early, maybe the first day or two he was paying attention, but the minute he got his credit, the minute he got his pat on his back, we had the same situation as we had in Benghazi,” Giuliani said. “He loses focus. He goes back to being campaigner-in-chief rather than commander-in-chief.”
Parts of New York remain devastated, including areas in Queens and Staten Island, where resident have been complaining that FEMA is a non-presence. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said that between 30,000 and 40,000 people could be in need of housing, a major concern as temperatures drop. The National Guard is also providing assistance as citizens continue to clamor for gas, which has not been readily available in the wake of the storm.
In New Jersey, while the number of people without power dropped to below 1 million, many other Garden Staters are still in the dark, according to news reports.
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