Last night (Sept. 17) a Washington, D.C. local television network interviewed people in Old Town Alexandria, just outside of D.C., who were really, REALLY upset with the city government of Alexandria. These were people who live in $750,000 and up townhouses in Old Town who were told that the city would supply each of them with 5 sandbags to put on the stoops of their street-level townhouses to protect them from the storm surge from Hurricane Isabell (Old Town is right on the Potomac River). The interviewees fumed and fumed over the facts that 1) the city truck was late; and 2) It arrived with only 25 sandbags, enough for five people while hundreds waited in line.
Lesson: Washington, D.C. is mostly populated by moronic, state-worshipping fools. They are such creatures of the state that they instinctively rely on it, rather than their own initiative, even for such trivial and mundane things as acquiring a few pounds of sand. And they have faith in the city public works department!! What planet do they come from?!
The local media had been warning of the hurricane for at least a week, and bags of sand can be purchased for a couple of bucks at any hardware store or garden center in Northern Virgnia. But these affluent statists preferred to stand in line for five hours instead, and for nothing. Old Town is swarming with $400/hour lawyers and lobbyists who can apparently use a lesson in opportunity cost.
2:38 pm on September 18, 2003
