Bzzzzzz! You just aren't trying hard enough, FRiend. NYC is the Nation's largest librat bastion. They are getting just what they have promoted.
1) Unions are in a tailspin in this country, FRiend. Illegal strikes by gooberment worker unions at Christmas time is NOT buying them any friends.
2) PR firms??? Mostly New Yawkers. Tuff tookis for them.
3) The people of NYC that truly drive the Nation's economy DON'T use mass transit anyway.
4) & 5) They are New Yawkers; and mostly liberal. They are getting what they have pushed for.
6) Public service means just that; service. I am a cop in my small town. I can tell you that I'd put up with any such hardship when my community needs me most.
Dude, stop painting all of us NYers with such a large brush. You're doing exactly what the liberals are doing when they sneer at "fundies." I expect it from them; I expect better from conservatives.
Tuff Tookies?? He's dead!