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- TDC based DEIS traffic report on wrong info!
- Urban planner's take on Flushing Commons
- State park in Rockaway slated for closure
- City seeks operator for Marty's $64M potato chip
- Letter from Peter Koo about Flushing Commons
- Do Italians have enough "clout" to save historic c...
- City needs to kick its spending habit
- Benepe plans to limit artists in parks
- Some people love living on top of each other
- Flushing, Queens: tourist destination!
- Park Slope plagued by phony 311 complaints
- Sign at Bayside High a public nuisance
- Budget cuts do not apply to City Council
- Immigrants not filling out census
- Back to the drawing board for Jamaica project
- Con Ed rates to go up again
- Councilman sets up shop in a piece of Queens Crap
- Building collapse in Williamsburg
- Crane operator loses license
- No crime at Penn Station, either
- Albany "pay to play" scam exposed
- Avella formally announces Senate campaign
- Who should pay for special elections?
- Developers want DOB, ULURP processes sped up
- Wifi comes to 2 Queens parks
- Rolling up the green carpet
- Council closes overdevelopment loophole
- Making a McMansion out of a rowhouse, part 3
- NYPD finds firetrap nightclub in Jamaica basement
- Riot at Rikers
- Still no crime in the subway
- This is not a photoshop
- Fear not: more of Manhattan landmarked
- Putting "affordable housing" in the projects
- Bayside house in sad shape
- Smith, Espada & Sampson subpoenaed
- Second Avenue subway causing major headaches
- Feds not playing around
- Sports group wants soccer stadium in Queens
- What's new on Mazeau
- Crane collapse in lower Manhattan
- NYU expanding...again
- Carrozza hanging it up
- Placards a big part of Jamaica parking problem
- International counterfeiting ring busted
- City still growing, but not as fast
- Health Dept targeting Queens business owners
- All's not well on Albert Road
- Swinging '60's crapitecture
- Bloomberg admits that fewer cops = more crime
- Schools on closure list to remain open
- Checking him out
- Flushing Commons in a nutshell
- Johnny already doing something shady
- Murders way up this year
- Queens upzoned more than the other boroughs
- Smith hogged the tweeding cash
- More work on the 7 line; N getting cut
- Muss takes a back seat at Sky View Parc
- Faculty and students question CUNY law school's mo...
- Unfinished crap in Jamaica Hills
- Thought of the day
- Bloomberg: Crime doesn't happen in the subway
- Good government group crosses the line
- Railroad Park kinda trashy
- Hasidic bus headscratcher
- City and state subsidizing crap
- Pension bomb about to blow
- Johnny trying to fix CBAs by consulting with real ...
- Granny shoots granny in Rego Park elevator
- Flushing Commons – a study in tweeding
- MTA approves budget cuts
- Serial animal killer in Prospect Park
- Farebeaters cost us many millions
- Bellerose property line snafu
- Taxing colleges and public authorities?
- Bloomie's 'hack' job
- Developer connected to Smith's charter school
- Meeks a member of the jet set
- NYPD making up violations everywhere
- Elmhurst crap gets even more hideous
- Corrupt crane inspector pleads guilty
- Who actually read the health bill?
- Pete Seeger and the LIC Community Boathouse
- Another failed Bloomberg promise
- DOE teaching model a disservice to children
- Fixing up Farmers Blvd
- Anti-landmarking stupidity abounds
- Meditation garden proposed for former parking lot
- Scarano owners shitting bricks
- City creates application for charter schools
- Well, that didn't take long...
- Koo + Lee + Gallagher = bad news for Flushing
- Flushing really pissed about TDC project
- JetBlue staying in Queens
- URGENT NOTICE – PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT!
- Fraud was family business
- Have you seen this bank robber?
- More tough luck on Tulfan Terrace
- Shady dog breeder sued by the AG
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19 comments:
People are pissed in general due to the municipalities mismanaging $ and then making it up by taking more from the general public. Something has got to be done! Please channel this energy and vote out all incumbents, especially the democrats who keep stealing from their respective constituency. That means you Rangel, you Meeks, you Smith, you sampson, you Espada, etc.....
How dare you people speak to power like that! You think we care about your problems and concerns!? You think TRUTH means anything in our empire of LIES! You are nothing but cattle to be fleeced and butchered at our pleasure. Little people with big mouths. We have big people with big guns and alot of plastic restraints. And they will stomp you down because they think they are part of us. That's all it takes. Just watch your idiot box, eat the GMO food we feed you, take the poison filled vaccines, pay your taxes and be grateful we don't take it all. You are nothing, you own nothing. We own you peasants. Now do what you're told and know your place already.
IT is such a fake when slush fund Christine Quinn and Atlantic Yards Crony Marty Markowitz speak at these hearings. These fakes have access to the MTA board and can speak privately with them. Why waste the people's time pretending to be outrage when we know these politicians are part of the problem. if Quinn help fund the mta school pass instead of her slush fund or Marty didn't divert million of MTA money to Ratner then we wouldn't be here in the first place. bunch of fakes.
It did my heart good to see all the young people venting their rage at the "establishment". Reminded me of the old days in the sixties. We knew how to throw a good demonstration back then.
GIVE THEM HELL! THEY ARE STEALING FROM YOU! DON'T BACK DOWN! THE WAR IS NOT OVER!!!!!
"Reminded me of the old days in the sixties. We knew how to throw a good demonstration back then."
Yeah, and ended up with sex, drugs and rock&roll.
Those young people could have brought this government to it's knees by simply stopping -ALL- activities that profited the system.
If they had simply refused to buy sodas-music-clothes and stopped registering for the draft, refused to attend school etc, within a month the heads of industry would have gone to the White House and told Johnson or Nixon "how it's gonna be" and that stupid criminal war would have ended.
The Baby Boom generation had unprecedented power..and blew it on garbage.
Ah they made a mistake.
Should have held the hearings in Queens where people are so polite, and respectful, because they know that if not, the politicans will ignore them and they will get nothing.
Actually, they did...the night before in Flushing.
i hope at least some of this anger is directed towards the greedy TWU, demanding pay raises and benefit enhancements in the middle of a fiscal crisis, helping to bankrupt the MTA & state with their insane retirement packages, blocking any sort of reform/technology that enhances service and reduces cost (since it means fewer of their precious obsolete jobs) and contributing to an overall horrendous transit experience for New Yorkers with their wonderful customer service.
three headed beast - Albany/MTA Mgmt/TWU...They all are evil & corrupt
I love how bloomberg campaigned on standing up to the MTA, but hasn't uttered a word about this, or shown up at a hearing. So many people duped by his slick campaign.
"You are denying people the right to speak"
No, YOU'RE denying the people the right to speak by letting minions read statements from politicians who did not deem this important enough to bother showing up.
The only way the incompetent idiots at the MTA will hear us is if everyone gets on the buses and trains without paying. When no one pays then they will start listening. If everyone does it the 10 transit cops on patrol that night will be so overwhelmed they will not be able to stop it. (All the police Dept is is smoke and mirrors there are not as many cops as you think there are out there.) All we need is to be united, but unfortunately it will never happen.
And to the guy that is complaining about the TWU being part of the problem, they are just innocent bystanders. They need to make 40 50 60 thousand dollars in this city just to survive. Thats Blooomturd's fault not theirs. The MTA management are the crooks. Mangaement makes 6 figures. And yeah they have attitudes sometimes but eveyone has bad days at work especially working in the conditions that they work in.
i think it's an outrage!! how dare they pull people out like that and they didn't get a chance to be heard. the MTA is full of shit! they have more than one set of books or did everyone forget the damn lie back in the day. bloomberg the dumb ass should of been there standing behind what he thinks are the ones who voted for his ass. how is he going to explain this to NYC especially if they don't give out free METRO cards to the students, which is funded through city and state. he is the one building schools out of communities and busing younger children everywhere, which is costing way over the cost of metro cards.. he better step up and protect commuters.
American Mob Rule
We need a Socrates in Washington right now.
In the last three months, we’ve been reduced to something like the ancient Athenian mob — with opportunistic politicians sometimes inciting, sometimes catering to an already-angry public.
The Greek comic playwright Aristophanes once described how screaming politicians — posing as men of the people — would sway Athenian citizens by offering them all sort of perks and goodies that the government had no idea of how to pay for.
The historian Thucydides offers even more frightening accounts of bloodthirsty voters after they were aroused by demagogues (“leaders or drivers of the people”). One day, in bloodthirsty rage, voters demanded the death of the rebellious men of the subject island city of Mytilene; yet on the very next, in sudden remorse, they rescinded that blanket death sentence. Lately we’ve allowed our government to forget its calmer republican roots.
We’ve gone Athenian whole hog.
- Victor Davis Hanson
"And to the guy that is complaining about the TWU being part of the problem, they are just innocent bystanders"
innocent?? ha!
i know this is an expensive town, but that doesn't mean we have to pay above market rates for labor, much of which doesn't even need to exist. and whats more hurtful is the early retirement, underfunded pension plans, overtime abuse and healthcare perks. I wish we all got $1M salaries & free healthcare for life. But this kind of over-generous compensation for public employees is simply unsustainable.
labor is the biggest expense for any organization so simply ignoring that when discussing financial problems isn't gonna solve any problems. yes that includes bloated mgmt salaries & unnecessary consultants as well, but the TWU cannot be excluded from that discussion.
As far as the "greedy TWU", the TWU contract is basically the same as all of the other city unions, so what makes them so wildly greedy?
Inflation lessens the value of the dollar every year, so people getting can get a "pay raise" while their real wage stays flat, or even declines. This happened to me in 2008 - I got a small raise in my private sector job, but factoring in inflation I actually got a salary cut.
As far as the fiscal crisis, this is what the TWU heard in 2005 as well. Every time the TWU gets a contact they hear there's a fiscal crisis.
A fiscal crisis is not like an earthquake or hurricane. It is man-made. The banks pay off politicians and cry on the news that they need deregulation or else, they deregulate, collapse, get TARP taxpayer bailouts, then pay big profits to shareholders and bonuses, and we are told there is a fiscal crisis. The financial people who create the crisis pay themselves and the shareholders richly from taxpayer money, and the MTA schmoe making $40k a year is told to tighten his belt because there's a financial crisis - the same song and dance they gave in 2005.
Also, the MTA is a corporation that doesn't have to show its books to the government or people, so they are a private corporation when it suits Walder's purposes, yet the TWU can be held under the Taylor law, which disallows government employees from striking. If you want to look at the books, the MTA is a private corporation, you want to arrest workers from striking, the MTA suddenly transforms into a government agency.
Klink
If you want to understand history or politics study the Romans.
They taught us all we need to know.
Everything since is a rehash.
It's been a steady stream of digest for the last few years, Miles. With trips to core ideologues; Marx Cicero, Machiavelli, Muhammad, et all. Recently it's been back to basics a la Founding Fathers. What an education! Still searching truth...
Piddle around with the historian V. D. Hanson. You may enjoy his Modern to Grecian/Roman comparisons.
the present Greek economy is in wonderful condition... NOT.
READ:nytimes.com....."E.U ENDORSES GREEK AUSTERITY EFFORTS "
the 1960's gang is now ruining the U.S. economy and THE CONSTITUTION.
OBAMA CARE IS OBAMANISM.
You are at the right place, Klink. Keep plugging. The Founding Fathers are all around you here.
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