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Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!
THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!
There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)
Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!
THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!
There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)
I suppose it can be done that way, too. But if you have them ticketing in the stations, rather than on the train, it's going to create some limitations about zones, etc. For example, if the system has a zone-based pricing set-up, it may not be possible to show that people's tickets aren't good for the actual ride they are taking, unless you actually ticket them when they move from one zone to another. That's easy to do aboard the train -- if you're in zone 1 and the doors close with the next stop being zone 2, then anyone without a ticket that covers moving between zones could be ticketed, whereas if you stop them in either zone 1 or zone 2, there may be no way to show they did anything wrong. Of course, that assumes a certain kind of pricing set-up, and a simpler system wouldn't have that problem.
The black poverty rate was falling very quickly in the era of racial quotas and the Great Society programs. At the end of the 1950s, well over half of black people lived in poverty (55.1%), and that had fallen all the way to 32.2% by the end of the 1960s. If we'd continued at that rate (2.29 points of improvement per year), then in just one more decade we'd have had black poverty rates as low as where white, non-Hispanic poverty rates stand today.
But, that was the start of a long, dark period when Republicans controlled the White House for 20 out of 24 years. From the perspective of black poverty, it was a lost quarter-century. The black poverty rate actually ROSE in that time -- to 33.4% by the end of the Reagan-Bush era.
Then we had the Clinton era, and another quick decline in black poverty -- to 22.5% by 2000. At that rate of improvement (1.36 points per year), it would have taken just one more decade for black poverty rates to reach the level we have today for non-Hispanic whites.
But then we got the Bush years. By 2008, black poverty was back up to 24.7%. Then there was the Obama era, and renewed improvement. By 2016, the black poverty rate was down to 22.0%. It will be interesting to see if we continue along this path of declining black poverty this time, or if things take another turn for the worse.
As for your question of why they aren't rich, perhaps it would help if you thought in geographic terms instead of racial ones. Ask yourself: why aren't people of West Virginia rich? Or Mississippi? If you look at balance of federal payments, those states take vastly more money from the federal government than they contribute in federal taxes. It amounts to a net transfer of wealth of about $7000 per capita per year. So, for an average family of four, we're talking about a $28,000 subsidy from the rest of the country (by way of over-paying states like New Jersey and Connecticut). So, why aren't they rich? Is it because of low IQs. Or could it be because of systemic issues in the economy and historical factors?
When I lived in the area, prices fluctuated on the time of day and when and where you got off. You bought cards with a magnetic strip you had to have enough on to open the turnstile gates to make at least the least expensive trip for that time of day or it wouldn't open, and then you used the same card to leave. If you didn't have the money on the card, you had to add fare to exit. If you did have funds, it just deducted it from your balance. If you lost your card in between, you had to pay the most expensive fare for that time frame to leave the station. There was a minimum and a maximum fare. Since my trips to and from work were pretty constant, I always knew how much I needed for a week, two weeks, a month, and would just pay it all at once.
Think of all the person-hours wasted on a system like that -- with people constantly fumbling around for cards, money, etc. -- plus, people getting stuck behind people who are fumbling around that way. With a system like the one I'm talking about, for regular riders, it's almost effortless: get a monthly card, sign up for auto renewals, then just keep it in your wallet, other than on the rare occasions you're randomly stopped and asked. You can go weeks at a time without worrying about it. Similarly, people who are only in town for a week can get a week's pass and stick that in their wallet and forget about it. No queuing at turnstiles, no getting stuck behind some tourist who can't figure out what's going on, no need to force everyone on a bus or streetcar through a single door, etc. Also, a lot less trash. The whole system can function near maximum efficiency.
The new metro card work like e z passes. People just rub the card over top as they go through. It isn't a huge waste. Regular riders are the ones who know how to navigate the system quickly. It was the first time tourists caught in rush hour who mucked everything up from time to time.
That's fine, though you still need to fish it out regularly (unlike an EZ Pass which is kind of "set it and forget it"). There's also the risk of de-magnetizing. And you're still forced to go through choke-points, which can get held up if anyone in the line doesn't know what he's doing.
That's one of the benefits of the kind of system I'm talking about. Since the regular riders aren't forced to go through choke-points with the novices, the novices can't hold everyone up.It was the first time tourists caught in rush hour who mucked everything up from time to time.
Blacks are lucky it's only 90%. If the law was applied equally to everyone, blacks would be 99% of the fare evaders. Blacks get special treatment on everything. And yet they still fail everywhere in the world.
Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!
THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!
There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)
Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!
THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!
There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)
USFREEDOM911 (11-20-2018)
Paying for public transportation is racist
Don’t people know that we had slavery hundreds of years ago?
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