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Nov. 1, 2012 5:55pm Jason Howerton

The situation in New York City in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is dire. Some have gone days without power, water or even food as the superstorm brought the nation’s busiest city to a standstill.

Just how bad is it? WNBC actually found New Yorkers dumpster diving behind a Key Food supermarket Thursday, searching for any remnants of food they could find.

WNBC reporter Jonathan Vigliotti said people are “so hungry they literally pried open this dumpster — you see that door open right now — and they are literally picking through for whatever they can take home with themselves.”

“We’ve seen everyone here from the elderly, to families with children, literally up on top of this,” he added.

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coyote1hell
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:26pm
It’s NYC, for crying out loud, they voted for Bloomberg…No thought process with these people…

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- 226crimsontrace
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:44pm
  What you see going on is rats in a cage, with the food cut off. Yes I did call those people rats, and NYC is a cage. How long before these people started eating each other??
  
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- maverick4harlot
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:08pm
  I am not trying to be a cruel person but you tell me we have a 100 mile wide huricane comming at me with the lowest barometric pressure ever measure at that latitude and I have food for 2 weeks in 3 large coolers that float all chained togeather. Either that or I start hitch hiking the hell out of there. If I had been in Jersey left the morning before the storm, I could have been in Virginia beach the next morning where there is plenty of food and water. People just dont think ahead and it’s nobody’s fault but their own. Guess it depends on how badly you DONT want to eat out of a dumpster or get pulled out to sea and eaten by fish. If you like living THINK AHEAD.
  
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- Just_Bubba
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Not very long for some of them I’d imagine. No preparedness with those folks at all, just one big happy Progressive family. How’s that schema working for ya Bloomie; Oblamo is on the way with his flight jacket so all will be well. Right?
  I’ll bet that he isn’t out walking amongst them right now. Funny how the political gain for Oblamo ended at the same time that his pawns meager resources are running out. I’ve got Oblamo bucks for all you folks…if you vote me in again…I promise…and remember I killed Bin Laden.
  
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- mwhaley
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:36pm
  I do not see the red states doing this. The blue states are filled with people that cannot take care of themselves.
  
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- XiWon
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:48pm
  I hope it gets under control very soon. After all, Obama is still President and he’s written an amazing number of executive orders giving himself undeard-of powers when he declares martial law.
  
  Check U-tube for “executive orders from he11″ and choose the “government” option. They’re all there…
  
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- 1947
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:49pm
  Ok, now you’re letting New York go just like you did for the FOUR men
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:51pm
  Barack Hussein Obama’s America
  
  Remember how the DEMOCRATS and their Socialist allies , THE MSM, went after George Bush after Katrina? The Worm Turns
  
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- Jedrin
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:59pm
  I have zero sympathy for these rats. Let them wait on obama to bail them out. Soon they will find out how much he will do for them. I usually donate to Samaritans Purse this time of year for US disaster aid, not this year. The east coast has my tax money, let them eat paper.
  
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- XiWon
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:00pm
  I agree, 13th man.
  Even though I think Bush failed to have FEMA and his disaster preparedness in great shape and ready to go before Katrina (“Brownie” was obviously a terrible mistake, for example) I know he didn’t cause the flooding of New Orleans and I know the La Governor and then-Mayor Ray Negin never got their full share of the blame.
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:13pm
  What’s wrong with that? There aren’t any big gulps around. No harm no foul.
  
  Vote Obama new yawk. Again. Stupid Americans.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:26pm
  They will find a way to blame the right for their neglect.
  
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- Eternal
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:29pm
  Hope these liberl anti American and godless cities suffer an even worse storm. Hard to care for those who don’t care about Christ nor America.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:53pm
  The sad part is, like Katrina, they had at least a weeks notice. How hard is it to evacuate or at least stock up before the storm hits? A flashlights, candles, a propane camp stove and canned food with several gallons of bottled water. I feel sorry for the children having such worthless parents.
  
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- Thatsitivehadenough
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:45pm
  I can’t muster up any sympathy for people who were too stupid to heed the warnings and either stock up on food or leave when they were told to.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 1:01am
  XiWon
  Don’t buy into the MSM B.S. You need to watch tonight’s episode of John Stossel on FBN .Their running it again SAT. 11/3 at 1:00 AM.. Stossel went over how miserably ’ FEMA-FAILED’ in handling Katrina.. Everyone wants to blame Bush, but it was FEMA that responsible for sending everyone to the stadium, toxic shelters that nobody could use.. Sending truckloads of water and ice earmarked for Katrina victims… to “Maine” …and the list goes on and on.
  
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- happygranny
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 1:19am
  This is a bunch of bull. First there was plenty of notice to get out there, buy some food that can be eaten without being cooked (in case they loose the power), stock up on water, and if you own a car, maybe fill a few 5 gallon cans. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? After Obummer got into power, I started stock piling everything needed in case there is ………… (you fill this part in), and now I am good for a minimum of 9 months of being totally self sufficient. The whinners need to get off their ass and instead of dumpster diving which I can’t believe is happening at all – pull up their boot straps and manage on their own. Government doesn’t exist so you can do nothing to help yourself.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 3:16am
  BLOOMBERG can get the salt off the tables; the size of sodas reduced but where the hell is the National Guard? WHY was that stupid CRANE allowed to stay up on that building? DOES ANYONE have any COMMON SENSE THERE? WHY weren’t the YELLOW CABS driven to higher ground out of the city? I mean they had hours and hours… there was NO LEADERSHIP… and that nut wants to endorse OBAMA… YE GADS. I’m sorry for these people, but GOOD LEADERSHIP , the RUDY GIULLANI type would have made these things happen. These people would have bought food. Cars would not have flooded; Gas Stations would not be out of gas. THERE IS HIGHER GROUND there…they could have used their heads. THEY could have had camps set up in nearby cities and people bused out of the city. AGAIN…where is the NATIONAL GUARD? Bloomberg, you are a joke.
  
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- MDKing
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 3:47am
  Sorry I don’t believe this for a second, Just another photo op for the liberals. reason?
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hurricane-devastated-nj-town-rejects-non-union-alabama-electrical-workers/
  Now, tell me how bad they are hurting.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 4:42am
  Useful idiots reap what they sow. Big government doesn’t need them, so big government doesn’t feed them. Life under communism is a simple deal.
  
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- smallcraftadvisory
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 5:52am
  I thought our fearless leader was taking care of everyone effected by the storm. Read http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/ for fresh political commentary.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 6:55am
  And how many of those people laughed at those who are “prepping?” How many are laughing now when theprepper’s have 3 months worth of food and a means to purify water while these people dive through the dumpster for scraps? I’ve been at this for 3 years, being laughed at, told I wasn’t a Christian, etc. It could happen anywhere. And if Obama gets reelected, expect wide spread poverty because our dollar will be worth about a dime, but the price of food will go up.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 7:33am
  city dwellers…..is anyone shocked???? This is a look into the future….
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 7:40am
  Man….when I read this I could hardly eat my thick cut chop with mashed potato’s and gravy….now that’s good eating.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:04am
  These people are pathetic morons. Any idiot would have the good sense to have a couple weeks food in the house… unless they’re New Yawkers… as evidenced by their acceptance of Dumberg’s regulations on what they can eat and drink, not smart enough to think for themselves. Let them starve.
  
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- jwpowers41
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 9:56am
  looking for 32 ounce drinks lol
  
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- Helaman
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:56am
  For the past couple of days I have been answering calls from customers in the Northeast who were hit by Hurricane Sandy. Some calling to place orders for basic needs as they have no power and cannot use their computers to order items that they cannot buy at their stores right now. Others asking about emergency items that are not carried online but only in the stores and the stores are out of those supplies.
  
  It begs the question, are you prepared if a disaster hits your house?
  
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dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:20pm
yet they will vote for the guy who will give them four more years of it.

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- scrudge
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:48pm
  LOOKHEED MARTIN laying off 250000 workers… oBOZO the clown wants it kept quiet till after the elections… he will make it right with your tax payers dollars….. found on GOOGLE
  
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- XiWon
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:05pm
  No surprise, Scrudge.
  Obama does have the sheeple mesmerized.
  
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- IOUQuidProQuo
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:24am
  I am sure, NYC is trying to figure out how to TAX the refuse, before somebody carries it off to eat. And, Mayor Bloomberg, wants to be sure NOBODY walks off with a 17 oz COLA! And, Michelle Obama is trying to create the DUMP$TER Food Pyramid. That will be published NOV 6.
  
  I really think that looks like the dumpster behind TRUMP towers. And, that’s TOP****, high dollar trash. Man, people in Indonesia and Kenya pick through trash all day long. . . . Is this a STORY???? New WORLD ORDER take-out. $oro$ (SOROS) master plan.
  
  Besides, EBT cards won’t be MAILED out until NOV 6, picked up at that LOCAL Voting STATION.
  
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- jwpowers41
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:04am
  Right now in South Florida I have 5 cases of water 2 more in the second fridge a 6.5kw generator
  canned and dry foods for 4 weeks and a full tank of gas gas for the generator 2 tanks of propane
  and I maintain this from June till November you people were given ample warnings to either evacuate
  or prepare so don’t complain now
  
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ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:20pm
This is silly!

But if true, then preppers are more sane with each passing day.

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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:01pm
  I’m one…and I’m VERY sane. Get your prepping done!
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Preppers unite!!!
  
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The-Monk
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:18pm
If they had listened to Glenn instead of MSNBC they would have had a food storage program going for themselves.

I know…. I’m living off of mine now.

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- SHASTADIANE1
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:26pm
  AMEN!!!! We lost power a couple of months ago for 2 days. We didn’t have to leave the house. Everything was in place.
  
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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Even with a little common sense they would have. Nobody in America today should be without adequate stores on hand for a protracted problem, natural or man-made. Scenes like the photo above will be common in the next four years if Obama is re-enshrined.
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:42pm
  When our power went out on the West coast last year, I finally broke down and got a generator that weekend and I live in sunny Socal. A earthquake here will be worse than any storm. The roads will be fractured, powerlines cut, gas lines busted, food lines cut. It will take months if not years for Socal to get over what they believe is on our horizon…a dreaded 8.0 or higher. Be prepped up at all times, that goes for carry bags for your cars with nice get home items packed in a bag, walking shoes too. People don’t think about the earthquake which strike out of the blue like the one last year on the East coast. Minor damage on that one, what about something that cuts people off during a work day rush hour?
  
  That quake was punctuated with Irene up the East coast last year, then an epic snow storm and now this! Can’t people see that things are not getting better, they are getting worse. This socalled Storm of the century as the media calls it, is meant as, don’t worry, we won’t see anything like it again for hundred years….yea right!
  
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- rEt_fiELdoP
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 7:55am
  Easy ideal fix in that a little self responsibility goes a way however….
  
  As for those in the dumpsters, sad situation however every common culture has this. For many in the “3rd world countries”, this is a daily experience. The sad probable fact is this will spread from neighborhood to neighborhood.
  
  People will become more daring as the situation gets dire (for basic substenance). Don’t think people will remain in their own ‘hood because that simply won’t happen. In a couple days, if food doesn’t get to the people, you’ll hear and probably see migrations of people looting and stealing to survive.
  
  Mark my words, this is a daily ritual for some in the world. For those of you who are callous to stay the obvious, you fail to realize many of these people live “stacked” so there’s minimal space to store and live the way many do outside a large metropolitan area.
  
  BOTTOM LINE: Sources will run out and be short for millions who live on check to check subsities. They’ll gonna recall Obama’s promise to care for them and when that doesn’t happen, they’ll probably be pisst off and want to take it out against the govt…. Opps, too late, voting will be over come 96 hours
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:18pm
Huh? But, but…, O has sent FEMA in. Doesn’t that make everything OK?

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Edohiguma
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:17pm
Compare it with the Tohoku quake and tsunami. None of this happened in Japan and they were hit out of the blue without any chance to prepare and the death and devastation was astronomically higher than this little wind. Sure, in some shelters food became scarce, but unlike in NY, where people apparently wait for the nanny state to get stuff done and have zero feeling for responsibility (even though they knew it was coming for days), in the wake of the quake and tsunami basically all of Japan stood up and helped in whatever way was possible. People were fed, sheltered and supplied.

Many of Japan’s biggest stars pulled their weight and helped, even on site with the evacuees.

Now where is Hollywood in this? Where are all the self-important American stars? Anyone of them going to lift a finger? Oh wait, they’re too busy whining about Romney and global warming.

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:49pm
  And having halloween parties. The Japanese culture is not a nanny state culture, which is where we are headed with this president. Get out and vote him out.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:57pm
  The innate national pride of the J, would have never have allowed images like these out, whether it got that bad or not. …. which in itself is better than the image we are sending.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:16pm
Starving, or just looking for free stuff? Even if these folks didn’t stockpile food and water in preparation for the storm (and why didn’t they?), it’s not like the entire city was washed away – there is plenty of food in NYC. These folks just look like the normal dumpster diving crowd – I don’t see any indication that they are starving.

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- ZAP
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:32pm
  IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to starve in 3 days.I call B.S.
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:02pm
  Uncomfortably hungry perhaps for the first time in their lives, yes. Starving?…hardly.
  
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- thekuligs
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:06pm
  I believe they say the average store only has 3 days worth of food if cut off from supply and everyone cleaned out the stores getting ready for the storm.
  
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Platonician
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:16pm
Welcome to Obama’s America.

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- XiWon
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:51pm
  Sadly, we might be stuck in it for 4 more years.
  Pray for a miracle, that it doesn’t happen!
  
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- ADNIL
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 6:27am
  I expect we will see a lot more of this in the future without any “super storms” but just a matter of fact, as we slip into 3rd world status.
  
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HelloWorld
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:13pm
I wondered if this would happen. I understand that NY had closed most of it’s homeless shelters due to funding a long time ago. Families stand in line at church food banks on a normal day for food. This is very sad. Yet, it is okay to pay ridiculous wages to union officials in NY. Perfect democratic state, where there is a tax for everything and you can’t feed the homeless and destitute. This is definitely a fault of leadership and government.

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:52pm
  Speaking of paying, how about the Red Cross paying its CEO $950,000 per year. That would buy a lot of groceries.
  
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boiz
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:13pm
They were warned about the storm and they only had 3 days worth of food? I don’t buy it.

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:54pm
  I do. They really thought the FEMA people, who did such a stellar job after Katrina and Irene, were going to make deliveries from the Whole Food market to their door starting on day 1.
  
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dusko
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:13pm
I got one month of food in the basement. I thought I was not prepared.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:33pm
  What if your basement fills up with sea water?
  
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- 226crimsontrace
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Hey GONZO,
  If my basement fills with sea water, NYC will be under 1400 feet of water
  
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Gonzo
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:12pm
When people had a hard time in New Orleans after Katrina, it was because Bush hated black people (ask Kanye). Therefore, this proves Obama hates white people.

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:56pm
  Aren’t there any black folks in NYC?
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:00pm
  yeah, Obama simply hates all americans
  
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- gb123
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 2:15am
  And Israelis, British etc. You know all the standard allies & btw global waring is all bushes fault. He killed all the Polar Bears. And everything else is all the fault of YouTube videos & possibly Vimeo.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:12pm
Where is Barry “Basketball Jones” Soetoro? I thought he was on the job?

5 more days until we finally get a REAL President. An American one.

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:57pm
  I’m sorry sir, I can’t put your call to president through at this time, he is busy in the situation room saving everyone on the East Coast from the disaster…
  
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RickN
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:10pm
If George W Bush were President today, THIS photo would be plastered EVERYWHERE!!! Nightly Network News, National Papers, etc. And they’d be criticizing him for campaigning.

Oh…and it would be followed-up by an interview with Charles Woods.

Night after night, after night, after night.

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:59pm
  I’m surprised it isn’t anyway and still tagged with Bush’s fault.
  
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whitealaskan
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:09pm
Literally?

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- GumRock
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:24pm
  Literally.
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:08pm
This is unacceptable in the United States, a country that throws billions to countries that hate us. This should never be tolerated..

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- grayling646
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 6:30am
  Are you saying this is a government responsibility?
  
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- Thighmaster
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 7:59am
  No, not at all but I am saying that these are probably at some time tax paying citizens and they deserve better. Use the money we’re sending overseas or use the money we spend on prisoners to feed these people. I really think they should be helped by people like us and yes I help..
  
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Al J Zira
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:07pm
I don’t buy this for a second. Dumpster Diving is an art form in New York, people pride themselves on “recycling” food.

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Female
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:03pm
Oh NO, Governor Romney we don’t need canned food!

May Operation Blessing and other food closets get there quickly!

How about some food and generators from the military?

Oh and Bloomie suspend the soda laws these people are going to need the caffine and sugar for all the additional walking!

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- QuincySmith
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:12pm
  Confused;
  
  It was you heroine, angria mitchell, who said the Red Cross didn’t what his help. Come back when you have facts to support your spurious allegations.
  
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normbal
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:03pm
This isn’t news. Dumpster diving has become high art and basic survival skills since President Obeyme took office. You think all those homeless people disappeared just because the mainstream media chooses to ignore them while a democrat is in office?

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- lexington_green
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:41pm
  yes these are homeless people. not everyday stranded new yorkers. go to the link of Drudge and watch the video, it’s obvious these folks would be doing this storm or no storm. look at their faces and the clothes they are wearing as well as their posture. they are transients. they black guys taking pictures and laughing are just there for the show.
  
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- Just_Bubba
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:57pm
  OWS was their home away from home for the last year. I’ll bet their tent city was a great place to be as the rats of both species took the high ground. What goes around comes around and they are all oblivious to the root cause…Progressivism.
  
  We are completely self-sufficient here and lived it for the middle two years of their Supreme Leader’s reign. We know what and how much it takes to live WELL, not just survive. Semper Paratus. These are the Zombies you read about and just 3 days is all it takes to put the great equalizers in place …cold, hunger, and thirst. They can’t even get gas for generators. (or to get out of Dodge)
  
  We will be faced with these people on an epic scale if something worse than Oblamo ever happens. Pray that we get him out of there next Tuesday so we can all prepare for it together instead of being hung out to dry by this Liar in Chief. I worry that Bengazi WAS just a bump in his road and what’s to come next will really blow our minds.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:48pm
  Now that they sense Romney’s victory, this is all we’ll see on TV propaganda for the next 4 years. They did it when Reagan was in office.
  Feed the Homeless.
  We are the World, etc.
  Theyre just warming up in the bullpen.
  
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floridareader
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:03pm
WTH is FEMA?!
Wasn’t the agency supposed to obey Narcissus’ orders?!

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- chips1
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:15pm
  FEMA was ordered to “stand down”.
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:18pm
  Fema’s true purpose is not what they purport it to be, that is why they sucked with Katrina and why they still suck. There purpose is to one day deliver the populace to all of those prisons they are building. Think about it, what possible purpose is the billions of rounds of ammunition going to do for the storm victims, maybe put them out of there misery? Fema has their hand into every aspect of our government.
  
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- Edohiguma
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:20pm
  FEMA is a government agency, they take a while to agree on the color of poop.
  
  It’s kind of sad that even my little country has significantly better disaster response when it comes to catastrophes hitting our own shores, than the mighty US of A.
  
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- Watermain
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:02pm
  they are doing exactly what they specialize in…nothing.
  
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jessieH
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:03pm
Welcome to Obamaville, New York!

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Gary_K
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:02pm
How is barry and his huge government working out for you New York? Where is FEMA?

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Pontiaku
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:02pm
I thought this was the norm in New York.

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- GumRock
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:29pm
  Someone want to check the Bloomberg Food Laws?
  Folks are Breaking the Law Here !
  Frog Walk the Perp’s into jail, 3 hots and a Cot.
  that will fix the problem..
  NEXT !
  
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kaydeebeau
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:00pm
It isn’t like no one had time to prepare for crying out loud – I am sorry but here in middle Tennessee – if there is even a hint of impending weather – people stock up on neccessities ahead of time – we had major flooding a year ago – we helped each other but we didn’t suffer because we stay prepared

Take responsibility for yourselves – geez – I am sorry to sound so callous – I am just sick of irresponsible behavior and lazy people

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- rbrowder
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:13pm
  couldn’t have said it better myself. Makes no sense why one wouldn’t prepare ahead of time. They knew it was coming.
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:22pm
  @kaydeebeau
  I was thinking the same. They had several days to prepare for this time. Of course I don’t know the difficulties those people were having before the hurricane. Again, where is FEMA?
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:38pm
  When FEMA finally got to Nashville for our flooding – we were so ahead of them – they weren’t needed – the FEMA crews even commented on how well we were already dealing with this – Heck regular citizens with fishing boats were ferrying people back to there flooded houses to let folks get things and check on the damage – no rioting, no impatience – just good ol fashined helpfulness and Christian charity at work
  
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- phunkymunkey
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 7:30pm
  totally agree. if you live in an area almost totally surrounded by water, and they are calling for the worst storm in the entire history of all recorded storm-dom to hit you, isn’t it pretty obvious that you better either get the hell out of the way or at least make preparations? My goodness, I live in the middle of PA, surrounded by no bodies of water, and everyone I know was stockpiling & preparing like it was the end of the world! Yet the people who really should have been preparing didn’t… too busy relying on gov’t. See, that’s the problem. People with the attitude of “oh, govt will take care of me should anything ever happen, so i don’t need to prepare or stockpile food and supplies or take any personal responsibility and do what I need to do. Why the hell not? good old govt is gonna take care of me. i’m just gonna go on living my jolly old life”… then WHAM! something like Sandy comes thru, and they wonder why they’re starving…. doesn’t make sense to me. people are so stupid.
  
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- safewrite
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:06am
  Kaydeebeau, Safewrite here – now living in SC. I used to live in NY but am originally from Western PA.
  
  Let me tell you a little about the entitlement mindset in NYC. I resided on Long Island, and commuted to NYC. Have you seen Wednesday’s and Thursday’s Sandy aftermath pics? If you take a look at the pictures of downed trees on Long Island, unless they are surrounded by caution tape because of downed power lines, the trees have all been dragged out of the road by residents and are being cut up for firewood or to be hauled away.
  
  In NYC the fallen trees still sit there, and the residents are waiting for a government agency to remove them. In my estimation New York City dwellers no longer have any initiative. Except the looters.
  
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chips1
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 5:58pm
Where are the police? Why aren’t they enforcing the Bloomberg Food Laws?

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- drs1969
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:53pm
  Marie Antoinette called, said ‘let them drink a Small Coke’. Bloomberg agreed.
  
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