His 15 Minutes Is Up.

by Little Miss Attila on January 9, 2009

Trouble is, it was supposed to be a full four years.

Via Hackbarth.

Tagged as: D.C., entrepreneurs, real estate, Washington

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Darrell January 9, 2009 at 10:26 pm

No. Right now he is getting 15 minutes per hour. Every hour. I think around-the-clock coverage starts next week.

You guys are missing the point. Rooms/houses aren’t being rented because people are going to just show up fully expecting all their needs to be taken care of for free. The city and federal authorities will have to scramble to find housing, child care, and food for those that just show up. I would wager that they already have a plan in place.

A few years ago in Chicago there was a big news story about a couple of kids that were left at the Bud Billiken Day Parade for at least a day. They were dropped off at a city-provided child care tent and supposedly the parent forgot to pick them up. People asked when did the city start providing such services. The city said that some time during the 1990’s, parents just started to drop off kids at all city events–like Taste of Chicago and others. Often kids are put there in the early morning hours and picked up just before closing. They had no choice but to quickly assemble a team of licensed day-care providers (or off-duty teachers, lawyers, food services, etc.). Since then, they do it as standard practice. The city was concerned about “liability issues”. Apparently “no” is not an answer, and juries side with the parents. Especially when people hire Aldermen to represent them against the city in these cases.

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Little Miss Attila January 10, 2009 at 1:24 am

Sounds Orwellian.

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