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Taxi drivers blast convention voucher plan (Dems rip off drivers)
Associated Press ^
| 6/17/2004
| Associated Press
Posted on 06/18/2004 5:01:18 PM PDT by visagoth
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Ah yes -- the party of the working man indeed.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:01:19 PM PDT
by
visagoth
To: visagoth
Irony and Shangefrued (or however the heck you spell it) bump
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:05:28 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
To: visagoth
City officials have the taxi industry's ''best interests at heart,'' Brennan said, in proposing the vouchers. Yep, and Liberals always have the best interests of working people at heart if they'd just shut up and pay their taxes.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:07:10 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
To: visagoth
''If you take one person to town, it's usually about $30, and I'm going to take one person for $10?'' said 45-year-old Jean Abrahm, a cabbie for 16 years. ''And I have to pay the toll, too? With gas now up, this is just a rip-off.''
Welcome to the Democratic party....remember your the middle class guy and this is the help they promised!
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:12:27 PM PDT
by
Hotdog
To: visagoth
Boston taxi drivers are angry over a city proposal that they accept vouchers from delegates to the Democratic National Convention instead of using their meters for rides to and from Logan International Airport. Well I hope it makes them angry enough that they and the rest of that state start voting out the limousine liberals infesting it.
To: Vigilanteman
In a communistic society, the elite have certain--er--privileges.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:15:57 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
To: visagoth
I'm shocked, really shocked.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:16:37 PM PDT
by
crusty codger
(Arrogance often covers a minimum of intelligence)
To: visagoth
Hey, somebody has to pay for the Boston Big Dig. Might as well start with the lowly taxi drivers. That is next in line right after taxpayers.
To: visagoth
Between the cabbies and the cops on strike, this is going to get amusing.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:19:46 PM PDT
by
blanknoone
(Gigolos for John Kerry...it has a certain ring to it.)
To: Reaganwuzthebest
I find it really amazing the the Democrats always state that they are the working man's party but every time it comes to spending their own money they act like "Do you know who I am?"
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:22:52 PM PDT
by
crusty codger
(Arrogance often covers a minimum of intelligence)
To: blanknoone
How do you think President-elect Kerry will protect his private partisan rally from the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who might rebel like they did in 1773 if they should hear his proposals, anti-American vitriol, and flip-floppery? This is horrible!
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:25:20 PM PDT
by
dufekin
(John F. Kerry. Irrational, improvident, backward, seditious.)
To: freedumb2003
"Irony and Shangefrued (or however the heck you spell it) bump" Try some "stratenschadenfreudery"
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:29:33 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(strategery + schadenfreude = stratenschadenfreudery)
To: freedumb2003
"Schadenfreude." You were close. It's a tough word.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:32:05 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(........John Kerry: The talking Barbie of the 21st Century.........)
To: EggsAckley
"Schadenfreude." You were close. It's a tough word. Exactly!!!
btw....how you doin'
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:38:56 PM PDT
by
Focault's Pendulum
(Simple physics: Heat sand hot enough...it becomes Glass!)
To: dufekin
The people's republic of Taxachussets supports Kerry's liberal agenda. It is not coincidence that their senators are Kerry and Kennedy. They will not rebel, they have long accepted the leash of government around their neck. It is the rest of the country Kerry has to worry about.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:39:47 PM PDT
by
blanknoone
(Gigolos for John Kerry...it has a certain ring to it.)
To: EggsAckley
I have to bookmark this just to keep that word on hand.
Thanks!
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:42:49 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
To: visagoth
Taxis? Taxis???
Sheesh!! Boston has a perfectly good (subsidized, no doubt) mass-transit subway system called the "T" (once "MTA"). It's faster and much cheaper than taking a taxi, even if it feels ever-so-slightly grimy and you have to have at least two (2) brain-cells firing to navigate it successfully. You might even have to walk a block or two. On my last stay it cost $25 to take a cab from the airport to the hotel. It cost $1 to take the train back to the airport.
But then I try to watch out for my (and my employer's) bottom line. I don't pretend I am one of the ruling elite, zipping about in my yellow limousine (by Checker).
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:46:46 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
To: EggsAckley
"Schadenfreude." If German were easy we might not have fought so hard in WWII to keep from having to learn to speak it.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:47:01 PM PDT
by
bayourod
(Can the 9/11 Commission connect the dots on Iraq or do they require a 3-D picture?)
To: crusty codger
I find it really amazing the the Democrats always state that they are the working man's party but every time it comes to spending their own money they act like "Do you know who I am?" Right, like we're supposed to kiss their ring or something. The whole Northeast is filled with these losers.
To: visagoth
"drivers already are raising the possibility of taking the week off during the convention" Might as well, Democrat delegates don't tip.
Why you ask is the City of Boston trying to save delegates money, when the purpose of a city hosting a convention is to make money off of the delegates? I'll tell you why.
43% of the delegates will be traveling on AFL-CIO expense accounts. The AFL-CIO owns the Boston city council and is looking for ways to pass their expenses on to the taxpayers. Next will be hotel and restaurant and hooker vouchers.
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:53:55 PM PDT
by
bayourod
(Can the 9/11 Commission connect the dots on Iraq or do they require a 3-D picture?)
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