BOB2 Wrote:
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> When you get the cancer or black lung from mining
> that coal, and that starts making you one of the
> "less fortunate", from the number one cause of
> individual economic "misfortune" in life, health
> problems, I certainly hope that there is "karma".
> And, I sure hope that "karma" you put out will
> make all of the other resentful, spiteful, and
> mean little dicks like you, just as dickish toward
> you, as you are, to those less fortunate than
> yourself, now.
>
> I think that there's even something in the good
> book about this... "There, but for the grace of
> god, goes "less fortunate" folks, like you or
> I......"?
>
> As to the "less fortunate" bus or transit rider, I
> used to listen to folks use the word "transit
> dependent", or "unemployed" used to describe
> transit riders. I banned the word with my staff,
> and required the word "customer" to be used. I
> found folks too often used pejorative terms that
> implied negative "assumptions" about their
> customers. These terms also propagated myths,
> like that transit users did not have access to
> vehicles, education, and employability. But, in a
> rather embarrassing survey done by the old RTD, we
> found that nearly 90% of bus customers had access
> in their household to a car (and were, in fact,
> not "dependent" of transit), that though lower in
> income strata, that they were more likely to work
> than the population as a whole, and more likely to
> be attending a school or college than the
> population as a whole. So much for the
> stereotypes
>
> Bus riders, it turns out, want reliable, frequent,
> and faster service, just like "customers" of other
> transportation services, and more discretionary
> riders of all income types are more likely to use
> rail, because rail is usually more reliable,
> frequent, and faster service.
>
> As usual, the lower caliber crap spewed by some of
> the "less fortunate" posting on subjects like this
> is always very entertaining and quite informative
> to observe.....


I was working the gold mines and as for "Black Lung" MSHA made sure I'll live longer than your soured butt.