“The good news,” Cuomo said of the promised 12 million gallons, “is it’s going to be free.”

Natalie Solent (Essex) · North American affairs

Goodness, who could have guessed that an official announcement telling people hit by a natural disaster to come and get oodles of free stuff, then telling the resulting crowd that their turn would not come for eight hours would cause any trouble?

A Cuomo-administration source blamed the mix up on the military.

“They told us. We simply conveyed the information provided by them,” the source said. “We had nothing to do with the execution. We didn’t select the sites. It wasn’t our trucks. It wasn’t our people. It’s not our fault.”

Cuomo’s office took the offer off its Web site later in the day.

Heaven preserve public order from its defenders. Still, one must admit that without the government and the military there would be anarchy on the streets.

At least the citizens were protected from ‘price gouging’.

3 comments to “The good news,” Cuomo said of the promised 12 million gallons, “is it’s going to be free.”

Dom

November 4, 2012 at 7:09 pm

Concerning gouging:

http://cafehayek.com/2012/11/gouging-reality.html
Paul Marks

November 4, 2012 at 9:17 pm

regulations against “price gouching” are like the labour market regulations (sorry “worker’s rights”) create mass unemployment.

The modern academic, political and media elite do not have a clue what a “market” really is, or why FREE markets are desperatly needed.
Paul Marks

November 11, 2012 at 7:32 am

Mario Cuomo thinks he is going to be President of the Untied States of America after 2016.

Actually he is not even going to be Governor of New York after 2014.

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