MTA starts hiring freeze. Really! Why didn't they start this last year!

MTA starts hiring freeze. Really! Why didn't they start this last year!

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/129772

MTA had service cuts and fare increases the last year why did they think that they had any money then but just came to the revelation now? I'm not one that is prone to privatizing anything but Elliott Sanders & the rest of the incompetent management at the MTA has got to be sacked and replaced with people without political connections and good large organisation management skill.

That's not likely to happen, but I can still dream.

Contract ended at Times Union -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

Contract ended at Times Union -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

The death of newspapers, the Union needs to think of organizing TMG.com

Has The World Been Turned Upsidedown

J.D. Power and Associates named Jaguar and Buick as the top in reliability. Stand Up comics can't make fun of their Jaguar always being in the garage. As far as Buick, I really don't know what to say, maybe the ugly makes it more reliable.

LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS

This is a concise though hyperbolic explanation of the current credit crisis. It gives the words that have been bottled up in my gut for the past six months, and squarely places the blame onto the speculators who produce nothing and feel entitled to everything.

Howard Dean for Secretary of HHS

Tom Daschle succumbed to tax scandal has withdrawn his nomination to head the Department of Health & Human Services. There probably is no better person to oversee health care reform than Dr. Howard Dean (former DNC chairman, 2004 Democratic canidate, former VT Governor that overhauled health care to provided every child in the state with health coverage.) The knowledge of the health care system that Dean would bring to the position would be invaluable to the Obama administration as well as the nation and to providing real solutions to national health care crisis.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Dean had put forward in his stump speech the need for incremental changes for health care to end up down the road to be universal. He had said that the failure of Hillary's health care in 1993 was because of the attempt to jump directly to full coverage.

Mayor Bloomberg&'s grim doomsday budget cuts 23,000 city jobs; Yet another massive screw-up of Bloomberg which will not stick to him.

Mayor Bloomberg's grim doomsday budget cuts 23,000 city jobs

7.6% cut in the city workforce; breaking campaign promises of supporting term limits while overseeing NYSEX plummet creating the cause for breaking term limits; after administrating 7 years of laisez-faire policies in department of buildings caused deaths of nearly a dozen New Yorkers; failed attempt to tax commuting New Yorkers via congestion pricing that would have done nothing to relieve outer-borough traffic; pushed for the Atlantic Yards Nets stadium which has now stalled not because of the emphatic support of the mayor but because downturn in economy started 2 years ago; mid-year budget cuts that killed school programs January 2007; for no apparent reason messing with school busing in the middle of the 2005-2006 school year; spent exorbitant amount of money to a failed attempt to attract the 2012 Olympics (thank goodness we dodged that bullet); has yet to accomplish anything with the rebuilding at ground zero either the freedom tower or the transportation hub;

All of these Bloomberg's Bloopers and yet still he is leading in the polls, Hizzoner is Teflon Don and can do anything without getting tagged without being held accountable to his screw-ups. Why is it that Bloomberg is able to get away with all of this? Is it possible that every bad thing that has happened under his administration is fault of someone else while every good thing came straight out his butt? MBA Presidents or MBA Mayors can't seem to hold themselves to account to anything, and is unwilling to admit any mistake.

Another Conneticut politician gets free home renovations and is caught

In 2005 Governor Rowland was caught for having a vacation home built in return for state contract to the contractor. Yesterday Hartford Mayor Perez received home renovations for half the cost by a contractor who believed "would be blackballed as a contractor in the city" if he did not do the renovations free, prosecutors said he told them.

 

Blago in Illinois left office for attempting sell Obama's Senate seat and a barrel full of corruption charges; NY Governor Spitzer left due to sexual scandal, NY State Comptroller left because misuse of his office's resources; North Dakota was deemed the most corrupt state based on indictments per capita. In large part the citizens' apathy is the reason why the moral bankrupt keep getting elected. If 300 million Americans became citizen-activists and knew their elected officials (not just the president) as well as became full participants in government there wouldn't be nearly as many corrupt elected officials.

 

Full participation of informed citizens is of course a pipe dream, but even if a third of the American public citizen-activists the other two thirds would benefit from having a higher quality of elected officials, and only a third of the country is actually achievable.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/nyregion/28hartford.html?em