I can't believe that my home state, my HOME STATE is out of control insane!! I have been wanting leave New York for a while now, and it seems the time is right, seeing as the outlandish craziness here is reaching new heights (or depths if you want to look at it that way) and driving the sane folk away....
First off, lets talk about Elliot Spitzer, or as I like to call him, damn fool that can't shut the hell up for two seconds to actually get any kind of task or job done and won't even compromise on issues because he needs to have his way. But let's call him The Howler for short. So between this whole ridiculous argument about Bruno's use of the state helicopter, not having the state's education budget released (now here it is two months after school has started) and his not so cool plan for having illegal immigrants get driver's licenses, I am ready to call for his swift and final termination. Granted, we need a LOT more Democrats with his kind of energy (sans the bullish brattiness), but he has turned out to be a real pain in the ass. At this point in the game, everything with him is an argument. Everything. And people are sick of him. He really doesn't seem to be getting much more done than his predecessor--he who cannot have his named mentioned for the sliver of a chance he may come back and eat our young and bring pestilence and plague. The Howler swore up and down thewre'd be change from day one, and the fool that I am that falls in love too easily believed him. And my heart has been broken. And now I'm pissed.
Now let's turn to the plight of the NYC cab drivers, if plight is a word you would like to use. Not me. Here is another case of people bitching and moaning, and it seems that here in New York, there is a lot of bitching to get your way. So the cab drivers are upset about the TLC having mandated credit card machines and GPS units installed into every car. Somehow this has thrown the cabbies up at arms. Let me tell you my take on it. First, the cabbies state that they will lose money if people use credit cards. I can't possibly foresee HOW that could happen. No, what I think is going on here is that the cabbies for years had probably been skimming the cash. You can't skim off credit cards. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't using credit cards bring down the crime rate of thieves mugging cabbies for cash?
And the GPS units, they say, is an invasion of privacy. Oh really? So what job do you know, pray tell, that has any modicum of privacy? In fact, what aspect of life here in America has any iota of privacy? Again, no. What I think is that there are those who may be involved in illegal activities (and by illegal activities I mean terrorist activities) that can now be tracked. So in a sense, yes, that may so be an invasion of privacy, but in wartime, there is no privacy for potential enemies. Sorry. That's just the way it works for the safety of the greater good.
And the other thing is how the cabbies are protesting that the city has no right to tell them what to do with their cars. WHAT?!?! Are they seriously for real? In order to get a medallion, you have to pay FEES to the TLC, or Taxi and Limousine Commission. The TLC is who regulates the fares. Cabbies have to register their cars with the TLC. So what the HELL are the cabbies talking about? These people have messed around and lost their minds.
And this is only part of the mess I am neck deep in here in New York....
