Reply #3: Thanks for link. Gilliard's assault on Kevin Drum is great.

[Karmadillo]

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/

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They why did you fucking write this?

Do you know the stress of the job, the conditions they work under? Repairing subways in your spare time?

You don't have sympathy for that because you sit on your ass all day writing, not repairing Bombadier rail cars in the open in August.

What a fucking idiot, when not backstabbing other bloggers or campaigning for a MSM job, he now opines that working in the open at 55 is a deal. Believe me, it's not the kind of deal he'd like if he dropped dead at 57 or 60.

Most of the MTA titles are hard, physical labor or stressful contact with the public. They aren't opining behind a fucking keyboard.

Personally, when a union member says that they're happy to make it retirement, one which was age 50 when the union was mostly Irish, I'll take their word for it, not judge that they aren't worthy for such a deal.

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