« Round Up: Legal Response To Surveillance Story | Home | More on the Secret Sleuthing »

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

“Many of us driving the bus would be in the back of the bus.”

Transit Worker Union president Roger Toussaint, at 4:13P, in a press conference explaining his union’s position and rather outrageously race-baiting. Meanwhile, City Journal, which is indeed one of the best publications in the nation, prints Nicole Gelinas’ plea: “Mayor Bloomberg: Get the Buses Running.”

I think it’s more the demesne of George Pataki, but in any event I think everyone would be best served by immediately hiring out-of-work New Yorkers to run the trains and buses, while dismissing union employees on a rolling basis. Already today, 1,000 TWU employees have left the picket lines and asked for work from the MTA. Enacting a re-staffing plan would have the protest ranks thinning even more quickly, I suspect, and whichever politico jumps on that Reaganesque plan would have many public plaudits in the bank.

Then use the leftover funds to pay the NYPD more.

Posted on December 21, 2005 04:16 PM. Permalink