Submitted by The Stank, Jul 26, 2007 09:23

The reason the MTA is projected to have such a high deficit is the result of bloated retirement pension funds from MTA employees who have used their Transit Worker's Union as a means to bully the city into outrageous salaries and benefits. Right now, most MTA revenue goes to mail checks to former MTA employees who have been sitting on their fat asses in the luxury of retirement by the beach in Florida for 10 years. Who gets screwed by the MTA's unwillingness to capitulate to the Transit Worker's Union? The everyday working New Yorker who has to pay the fair hikes.

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