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This weekend Times reporters rode the MTA's weekend express bus lines and came back with a total downer of a story about how the elimination of the routes would leave lower income commuters particularly screwed. For instance, 69-year-old Myrtis Williams lives in the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn and is completely dependent on the potentially doomed B57; the subway isn't an option for her because her peripheral artery disease and diabetes make taking the stairs painful. But one strange ray of hope in the article comes from bus driver Mitchell Verley; despite his two decades working for the MTA, this man's faith in city bureaucracy is still miraculously intact: "I think somehow the government or something will come up with the money to keep it going," he tells the Times.
MTA's Weekend Bus Cuts Would Hit Working Poor Hardest
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Well, from Verley's lips to God's (or Paterson's, Silver's and Skelos') ears.
Wait wait wait... I thought the working poor needed to DRIVE in order to get around. You mean those grandstanding politicians were LYING about that? Color me shocked.
Hmmm, so now the working poor can't afford to live anywhere near the city center because we wouldn't want to have tall buildings in a city, and now its going to be even harder for these people to get to their jobs because the MTA is cutting services.
Well at least everyone will get theirs in the end. When all the poor people move away, Bloomberg, Sheldon Silver, and the Donald will have to go back to wiping their own asses instead of paying some poor schmuck minimum wage to do it for them.
how the hell can you be poor if you are working? doesn't make sense. unless you are a chinese delivery man.
Even if you are working, many wages are low enough that you have to cut corners everywhere. You live in a dump, eat cheap food, wear cheap or used clothing. It's tough. Not everyone is an investment banker, babyhitler.
#4, read Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich to learn more about the working poor