I was hanging out with friends one night, when one made a joke about Domino’s fixing roads. My friends laughed, but I had no idea what the fuck they were talking about. My friends informed me that Domino’s is fixing America’s crappy roads, and you know when they did, because they write “Oh yes we did,” on filled potholes.
Domino’s also promotes this dystopian reality we find ourselves in on their website:
Potholes, cracks, and bumps in the road can cause irreversible damage to your pizza during the drive home from Domino’s. We can’t stand by and let your cheese slide to one side, your toppings get untapped, or you boxes get flipped, so we’re helping to pave in town across the country to save your good pizza from these bad roads.
A city manager of Milford, Delaware, said of Domino’s road project:
Facing an already harsher winter than usual for Delaware, this is an opportunity to get additional money to stretch our city’s limited resources.
Politicians always use infrastructure as tool to get public support, though they were largely full of shit, and Domino’s proves it more so. Domino’s is fixing our roads, but don’t worry-that’s just how it goes these days…
FEMA Administrator William Long wrote, “As a nation, closer partnerships with the private sector are crucial in providing commodities and support to survivors.” Your world was upended by a natural (climate change) catastrophe? You should call 1-800-We’ll Get Ours. William Long was an executive vice president at Hagerty Consulting, a disaster preparedness firm for six years, before getting into politics.
When asked TYT (The Young Turks) if Long’s policy recommendations could benefit Hagerty consulting, spokesperson Matt Hochstein said the company “disagrees with your inference that we, as an organization, have benefited from Brock Long being appointed as FEMA Administrator.”
Aside from Hagerty getting a contract to do recovery work in Louisiana, in 2010, but in January, Hagerty was looking into making money off the misfortune of Puerto Rico.
This January, Hagerty Consulting registered to open an office in Puerto Rico, according to public records. Hochstein told TYT that it has no physical presence on the island. “Hagerty has begun the registration and tax processes in PR in case we decide to pursue / take on work for the people of Puerto Rico,” Hochstein said.
Domino’s working on our reconstruction efforts, and people profiting off the suffering of Puerto Rican’s. We live in odd fucking times.
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