I think the facts are wrong in this article. As someone who lives in NYC (and relies on public transportation to work everyday) I can tell you that the strike completely disrupted my life and practically everyone else's life in this city. I don't know of anyone who was in "solidarity" with the strikers. I ended up having to walk about 20 miles everyday the strike was on, and I am too poor to afford a taxi cab or a car. Not to mention that it was FREEZING cold. This article fails to mention all the elderly, disabled, etc etc...who were …
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"or when members of police and fire unions spin the sirens for us), it sends a wave of energy and--yes--solidarity through our picket" I‘m not sure how great I would feel about standing in solidarity with the police union. "It was Aug. 9, 1997, when Mr. Louima was sodomized with a broken broom handle inside the bathroom of the 70th Precinct station house in Flatbush. At two federal trials, two Brooklyn patrolmen, Justin A. Volpe and Charles Schwarz, were convicted of taking part in the attack, and four other officers were found guilty of participating in a cover-up (represented by police …
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A billion dollar surplus? look at the chart in this article from this link: http://www.gothamgazette.com/commentary/98.lewis.shtml 60% of the MTA’s budget for 2000-2004 was funded by the sale of fare-backed bonds--9.273 billion dollars. The reason that a fiscal crisis is looming is because servicing the debt is eating more and more of the budget. Why is it that people keep saying the MTA is running a billion dollar surplus? Because they conveniently exclude the debt from their numbers. It’s like it doesn’t even exist. It’s like if you had a billion dollars in the bank, and 22 billion on your credit cards, …
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