I couldn’t embed it but here’s the link to the video.
I was looking for something that came up in the inevitable angry political discussion on the City Bus yesterday.
Actually, nobody was angry with or against each other.
We’re all just a little teensy tiny itty bitty small bit P.O.’d about the “Lower Class” being bought and sold like so many hummm… what’s that Minor Piece in a chess game, you know, the ones that always get sacrificed to save or capture a Chessman of higher rank, oh yeah… Pawns…
But it seems Our Illustrious Mayor has once again applied his own foot to his own mouth…
On the subject of cutting bus routes.
The bus in question is to one of the medical districts.
Which is getting a large percentage of Budgetary axe.
The other parties to the conversation were a retired lady and a lady who makes her living as a Teacher.
The Mayor, allegedly (but, for some strange reason, I believe every syllable of it) His Dis-Honor has made what he thought was an unrecorded remark that he doesn’t really care what bus passengers think because “The only people who ride the bus are bums and alcoholics”
This was supposed to be posted to YouTube after having been caught on a cell-phone camera.
I haven’t found it, YET.
Strangely, I have a lot of confidence that I will, and I don’t doubt for a moment that His Dis-Honor said that, simply because he has a long and rich history of making disparaging remarks about the Lower Classes, who, unlike himself, actually do the Labor that provides the wealth of Our Nation and more directly, his own Portfolio.
AND, about the soldiers who came back with pieces missing, both of body and mind, from the War of Conquest which benefits, directly, His Stock Portfolio.
One of the ladies, the schoolteacher, is blind. I had located the information she wanted on the Bus Route and schedule changes she had tried to ask the bus driver about.
The bus is the one she and the other lady use to go between their homes and, well, Everywhere Else.
I, as usual, was going to a doctor’s appointment.
One of the other bus Route Cancellation, 3 of them in fact, involve getting within a half-mile of Peak Vista Health Care, the El Paso County Health Department, and a Memorial Health Systems facility across Parkside Drive from Peak Vista.
In other words, facilities that serve the Disabled and Poor.
It’s not really a coincidence that those two groups merge at several points.
Also, in an entry into Jonah’s Museum of Spectacularly Bad Ideas, it seems the budget crunch was made an order of magnitude Worse by the reversal of the usual order of the Financial Universe,
Instead of issuing Municipal Bonds and having OTHER PEOPLE invest in the City, the City has been using Our Tax Money to GAMBLE errr… “invest” in the Stock Market, under the tutelage of Our Own Resident Pre-Chimpanzee Douglas Bruce.
The one who makes Les Freres Bush et menages look like Intellectual Giants by comparison.
I wonders, yes I does, if these Parasite Class Heroes bought, with our money, a whole bunch of those Mortgage Notes?
They could sue me for “Definition of Character” and if they win they would get everything I own.
At a net loss of the vast majority of the costs of hauling it away.
I guess they’re used to losing investments anyway.
There is much grumbling among the Working Class to the tune of a Recall Election to unseat these vermin.
As usual, Jonah speaks only for Jonah, but I think we should take that idea and run with it.
So my brother was telling me,