At part of the liberal coalition – this from Rocket Shoes regarding the refusal of the vastly overpaid union workers in the San Francisco public transit system to agree to some givebacks during the financial crisis:
Dear SF Muni,
(Expletive Delted) you.
Let me start over.
(Expletive Deleted) you.
You are the public transportation system. Say that out loud. You are, supposedly, the way I should transport myself. You know, to places like “everywhere” and “anywhere”. So let me just say I’m a little bit confused…
…I’m done with your lies.
You show up late. When you do show up, you’re a total (expletive deleted). Your driver acts like it’s a serious inconvenience that I’ve burdened him with the “driving people around in a bus” part of his “driving people around in a bus” … job. I mean, I wouldn’t take a job at the ice cream store and sigh when people asked for a (expletive deleted) sugar cone. Also, I would like to figure out where you are training your drivers. Have they used brakes on a bicycle before? Same theory. Just ease up a bit. If you push it lightly, the brakes are going to work. There’s no need to play the “can I catapult Drew into the awkward guy who’s mouth breathing in sweat pants” game. That was fun when you were on time. Hell, at the beginning of the relationship? It was one of those weird reasons I liked you: it was kind of cute in some effed up way.
It now costs me two dollars to be late to everything. Which seems like a really (expletive deleted) deal. When did you become the cable guy, telling me vaguely that you’d be over at my place sometime between the morning and roughly any time ever, including never?…
Now we’ll have to see if this guy puts two and two together and figures out that the problem is that its a government-run transportation system. A private bus system would cost less and get you there on time – because if they didn’t, some competition would come along and scoop up the customers. Of course, that would involve all sorts of freedom and individual choice, which is not really wanted in San Francisco outside of whom to have sex with, and what gender to be.
But I point this out because its yet another sign that the fury is growing out there – and its growing against government, even if its not articulated exactly that way. Everyone is mad at government and quasi-government entities raking in the taxpayer’s money and providing bad or non-existent service…meanwhile, the well-connected make out like bandits (which is, in a way, an insult to bandits – at least they put themselves at personal risk for what they steal).
2010 is all about fighting against the machine of politics – that machine which has wrecked the country and needs to be brought to heel by the people. This will, by default, work to the GOP’s advantage in November – but the warning is there: if the GOP doesn’t serve the people – and the people see and feel that the GOP is serving the people – then we’ll just repeat this all over again in 2012; and keep repeating it until we do get a government of, by and for the people.
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