Doug:
> Watching the vox pop on NY1 - the New York City news channel on Time
> Warner cable systems - I've been surprised at the sympathy to the
> strikers. There was one woman tonight going on about how they should
> be fired like Reagan did with PATCO, but there were three or four
> pro-strike remarks in the same segment.
Indeed, the vox populi on the BBC list is getting more diverse too. Below is the "vox" that I contributed:
"Anyone who believes that $50,000 plus pension is too much for a NYC worker with considerable responsibility, but does not mind seven digits handouts to speculators accountable to noone needs to have his head examined. Anyone claiming that the US is not a "socialist" nation needs to realize that US is not a nation at all, socialist or otherwise, but a club of billionaires with no national loyalty supported by the multinational work force toiling for pennies."
Wojtek ___________________________________ But can't the strikers and their representatives do better than this: "Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected," TWU chief Roger Toussaint said.
God, does that sound lame. I think this is symptomatic of the problem that Woj has been positing: the left can't come up with a plausible constructive program and too often resorts to what appears to be whining. If the MTA workers have legitimate economic grievances that need to be redressed by this strike, then shouldn't their spokesmen be hammering away on those issues every chance they get? Appearing to go on strike and shutting down most of NYC because they feel "disrepected" isn't going to get them very far.