Please take some time TODAY, and learn about Terri Schindler-Schiavo and her situation in Florida. Terri S., the 40 year-old woman, who needs Your Help!
Posted on 06/02/2004 1:55:40 AM PDT by kattracks
Even as Bostonians are attempting to brace themselves for the inconvenience being visited on them by the Democratic National Convention, Democratic politicians are attempting to add a financial insult to those obvious injuries.Sen. Ted Kennedy and the state's 10-member congressional delegation sent a letter to the mayor's chief convention planner asking that downtown subway service be made free during the convention week.
Nevermind that the MBTA will taxed virtually to the breaking point to shuttle regular commuters around areas closed down to accomodate security needs around North Station. Our duly elected represenatives weren't begging for free rides for inconvenienced constituents. No, their request extended only to downtown subway service - a request MBTA General Manager Michael Mulhern pegged at about $1 million. That's on top of an estimated $5 million in additional expenses the T can chaulk up to the convention.
Now it's not that free subway service during the convention isn't a terrific idea. It is. Not having to fiddle with tokens and passes allows the system to accomodate more people more efficiently. Free service also encourages people not to clog the roads.
But, as we all know, ``free'' isn't. Someone pays the tab and it's grossly unfair for the already hard-pressed taxpayers of this state to be asked to do that. If the Democratic National Committee thinks it's a nifty idea to provide free MBTA subway service and the cost is estimated at $1 million, let them write the check - as a goodwill gesture to their delegates and to this host city.
"Stop me before I Kopechne again!" a desperate Senator Kennedy wailed. :)
You would never know that Boston was home to one of the first great tax revolts in this nation.
Of course, they were such cowards, we still don't know the identities of the oens who threw the 'tea party'.
But at one time they did revolt.
Amazing.
Please take some time TODAY, and learn about Terri Schindler-Schiavo and her situation in Florida. Terri S., the 40 year-old woman, who needs Your Help!
Why should taxpayers "foot" the subway bill for democrats in any town as this is akin to supporting Religion, a reason that their own constitutents would understand as reason enough for disapproval.
"But at one time they did revolt."
But now-a-days, I find them even more revolting.
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