It’s called “sarcasm.” Did you read the second paragraph? Take a deep breath, go back, and see if you get the humor.

I ride Tri-Rail and fully support it. The point is that the system is not going to be saved by the current line up of legislators.

I tried to write a response to your invigorating comment but after the first 2 paragraphs i realized that you just don’t care. You are a typical Miamian who doesn’t care about anything of true societal, and environmental importance. Miami suffers a great deal from people like you who just don’t care, don’t try, don’t bother. and your concept of a mass transit system is childish. You should take a vacation and visit other world cities so you can appreciate better what a mass transit system could do for a city like Miami. While your at it you should also visit the everglades, we are the only ones in the world who have such a beautiful ecosystem living right in our backyards.

I think we should all pull together and figure out ways to make a difference. I’m sorry if you gave up on the issues but i haven’t. I don’t wish to explain to you their importance either. Those who care have already done their research and have come to the same conclusion that i have. we need mass transit, we need to save the everglades, we need urbanization, we need new fuels that don’t hurt the environment, we don’t need lazy people who don’t care, are ignorant, slightly racial, and overly pessimistic.

…and by the way.. im not a hippie…have a sun shinny day!

Thus the mindset that got us where we are today.

On a more serious note, putting people who hate the idea of competent government in charge of our government is like putting a pedophile in charge of your schools - a profoundly bad idea. Florida, I submit, is Exhibit A. Tri-Rail’s predicament is just further evidence in support of this proposition. I’d love to say we can lobby, we can agitate, we can send testy letters - but it’s spitting in the wind, so long as folks who pander to the affluent at the expense of the many and who believe that the best government is no government at all run the show. You can’t make a better case for support than Tri-Rail has, and it still falls on deaf ears. Absent eliminating Rubio and his slimy ilk from the legislature and Crist from the governor’s mansion, you can lobby to your heart’s content to no avail. Lobby and agitate, but come election time, if the same Republicans are returned to Tallahassee, it’s a moot point.

http://www.tri-rail.com/promo/SaveMyTrain/smt.htm

http://milbergsmusings.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/fare-game/