THE MONKEYS GO ON STRIKE

New York with an MTA strike.....I was there for the last one and it takes some imagination to realize how helpless people become. One of the reasons I am opposed to mass transit is that the unions get control of our lives and then just squeeze. One image from the last strike has always stuck in my mind. An hour into the strike, the TV News showed some transit union members and zoomed in on them. One of them held his thumb to his nose and while his fingers moved up and down in the age old playground gesture, said to all New York, "naa naa naa naa naa." It seemed like everybody in New York saw that gesture, knew the contempt the union had for the citizens, and knew there would be no bargaining with the room temperature IQ gang. What compounds things is that while the law is very tough regarding public transportation unions striking, the unions know that no politician will enforce them. Subway riders in New York will face ANOTHER steep rise in fares because people doing a job a monkey can do have them by the balls.