Fuck the strikers.
Roger Toussaint is a piece of shit, and this isn't the first time we've found that out. Everyone is so quick to forget his "private bus line strike" of 2002, which left 100,000 riders without a ride for six weeks--including yours truly. But that mostly affected half- and third-caste residents, like working class whites (me, technically, geographically, and ceaselessly) and brown people, so it was kept far from the news. Now that everyone is fucked, though, it's a national headline. Take a look at this thing from the Times. It's commuter "horror stories" from the strike. Look at how many people are bitching about having to walk from one part of the Upper West Side to...another part of the Upper West Side. And all those areas without blurbs? Those people don't speak English, don't own computers, or don't read the Times. So who cares?! You can bet your life that the people being most inconvenienced/starved to death by the strike aren't the tourists or the cute little transplants.
posted by Rob at 2:08 PM
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Bloomberg actually tried to spin the strike as a once-in-a-lifetime event that tourists could claim beeing here for. makes me almost miss giuliani and his mob ties, he would have had fucking toussant taken out instead of pissing off the entire city.
The people that would be hurt the worst are probably workers paid by the hour, by the day, etc... if you don't show you, you aren't getting paid. In a strange twist, many of the CUNY colleges have postponed exams until January, and I haven't bothered trying to get down into midtown yet, since exams got moved to January.
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