Feed the Beast

New York city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is cash strapped, “swimming in sea of red ink,” they say.  No surprise, that.  More taxes, in the form of tolls for utilizing the bridges into the city, is naturally the alleged solution put forth by the professional jobholders.

But what is disheartening, and sadly funny, about the article noting this, are the responses from the street, from the sheep who line up to vote for whomever is currently promising the biggest chicken for the sheeps’ pots.

“That’s crazy,” said Alex Shaw of the Bronx. “We’re taxed enough. They’ve got to get the money from someplace else. Stop putting it on the motorists.”

Or this.

“I don’t like it at all. I think that’s ridiculous, but I mean, hey, if it’s going to better our city in any way,” said Torey Guite of Flatbush.

And this.

“I wouldn’t be in favor of it, but if this is something we have to do to stimulate the economy then I’m all for it,” added Angela Grant.

The vacuity of the sheeps’ responses could not be more empty.

Sources: MTA To Toll All East River Bridges Cash-Strapped MTA About To Drop Hammer On Everyone

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