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MTA Buy New York Policy Helps Plattsburgh Employees

 
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Q65A



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:44 am    Post subject: MTA Buy New York Policy Helps Plattsburgh Employees Reply with quote
From the MTA website:
http://mta.info/news/stories/?story=272
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timecruncher



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And that is wonderful, but probably cost the taxpayers a lot more because of the "buy New York state" requirements.

Now that all seems good here and now, but transit in the U.S. is staring at possible 30% losses of Federal capital funding over the next few years as our politicians cut funding to as many worthy causes as possible without actually making a hard decision about the billions sent overseas or the mega billions wasted in this country paying people who do not work with money collected from people who do.

It is being hinted at behind closed doors at most transit systems in the country. Lets hope they're only rumors...

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
timecruncher wrote:
...It is being hinted at behind closed doors at most transit systems in the country. Lets hope they're only rumors...

timecruncher -

Alas! I could see this one coming ages back. All I got was a label as a Cassandra. It doesn't take too much to realize
the troubles with any publicly held, or funded entity? It is entirely dependent of whims of politicans, most of whom as
fickle as directions of the winds.

Where it gets completely ludicrous? Where a particular agency is a known net, net moneymaker, yet it still takes hits
of arbitrary cutbacks. It is all very much like Alice In Wonderland. It is not sustainable...

.........................Vern....................
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