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	<title>Comments on: Assembly Members Demand MTA Save Student MetroCards</title>
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		<title>By: ching chung chaa</title>
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		<dc:creator>ching chung chaa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is retarded ok those dooooshe baggs dont know how hard it is i am jumpin the turnstile....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is retarded ok those dooooshe baggs dont know how hard it is i am jumpin the turnstile&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Randolph B.Hunt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randolph B.Hunt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The elected officals are grand standing and are not making the decisions required to address the MTA funding problems and the State&#039;s funding problems.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The elected officals are grand standing and are not making the decisions required to address the MTA funding problems and the State&#8217;s funding problems.</p>
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		<title>By: Glenn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who were the other signers of this letter? They should all be shamed. There&#039;s no free lunch - someone has to pay for school kids - the state, the city or their parents. Alternatively, we could make transit free for everyone and just use the marginal tax rate or high bridge tolls to cover the system&#039;s costs...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who were the other signers of this letter? They should all be shamed. There&#8217;s no free lunch &#8211; someone has to pay for school kids &#8211; the state, the city or their parents. Alternatively, we could make transit free for everyone and just use the marginal tax rate or high bridge tolls to cover the system&#8217;s costs&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;$800 million hole&quot;, not &quot;$800 million whole&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;$800 million hole&#8221;, not &#8220;$800 million whole&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Littlefield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Littlefield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;They sound like idiots. Idiots.&quot;

They aren&#039;t idiots, they&#039;re evil.

Everyone who was in their cabal has gotten special tax breaks, overcharged for contracts, or will get paid to do nothing in retirement for one year for each year worked.  Then they will leave this city and state in ruins.  Again.

Their generation has done to the whole state, indeed the whole country, what their predessesors did to NYC in the 1970s.  The only way to stop it may be bankruptcy.

Does the political class really think they can force us to pay more and more (except the retired and public employees) while taking away public services and benefits (exempt for the seniors?)  And not be blamed because they demand that the government, which they run, not do so?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;They sound like idiots. Idiots.&#8221;</p>
<p>They aren&#8217;t idiots, they&#8217;re evil.</p>
<p>Everyone who was in their cabal has gotten special tax breaks, overcharged for contracts, or will get paid to do nothing in retirement for one year for each year worked.  Then they will leave this city and state in ruins.  Again.</p>
<p>Their generation has done to the whole state, indeed the whole country, what their predessesors did to NYC in the 1970s.  The only way to stop it may be bankruptcy.</p>
<p>Does the political class really think they can force us to pay more and more (except the retired and public employees) while taking away public services and benefits (exempt for the seniors?)  And not be blamed because they demand that the government, which they run, not do so?</p>
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		<title>By: Benjamin Kabak</title>
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		<dc:creator>Benjamin Kabak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is, as I wrote at Second Ave. Sagas, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/02/18/on-student-metrocards-the-assembly-doesnt-get-it/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;load of crap&lt;/a&gt;. The Assembly reps &lt;a href=&quot;http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/12/23/teaching-john-liu-comptroller-elect-a-lesson-in-mta-economics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;don&#039;t understand economics&lt;/a&gt;, and they sound like idiots. Idiots.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is, as I wrote at Second Ave. Sagas, a <a href="http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/02/18/on-student-metrocards-the-assembly-doesnt-get-it/" rel="nofollow">load of crap</a>. The Assembly reps <a href="http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/12/23/teaching-john-liu-comptroller-elect-a-lesson-in-mta-economics/" rel="nofollow">don&#8217;t understand economics</a>, and they sound like idiots. Idiots.</p>
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