Dreaming of lime gerbils in a cheese sauce

I've seen a lot of people following the lead of the Seattle Times (a so-called news paper) in bitching about how "badly Seattle handled the recent snowfall" wrt street cleaning.

We get snow like that what, once every 10 years? Storing and maintaining the equipment and supplies needed to deal with that at the same level as towns who get that (and more) yearly would be outrageously expensive! The Seattle CrimesTimes is famous for muckraking - for example, when we had a huge power outage caused by a wind storm they were at the front screaming about how long it's taking to repair it and then they had the balls to bitch about how much overtime the crews who were busting their asses to fix the problem were paid. They will bitch and complain about anything they can because it sells papers. They don't actually care about any of it, as long as they push pulp with ink stains on it.

However, the residents of Seattle really have no excuse. You want low taxes? You want to keep government lean? Then don't bitch about a lack of rarely used equipment and supplies! If you really want Seattle to be able to handle this kind of weather then pony up and pay for it.

If you aren't willing to pay up, then kindly do the rest of us a favor and shut up.