The AP reported this morning that Twin Cities Metro Transit has been awarded $1.3 million to hire 5 police officers. Read the whole story at mprnewsq.org, and add your comments here.
According to the story, "they'll work with young people about proper behavior and etiquette while riding public transit. They'll also be trained in anti-terrorism and ride patrols on the Hiawatha light rail line and some bus routes to detect people who might want to harm transit services."
Is this where federal stimulus money should go? Is this the kind of stimulus Metro Transit needs? How real a threat is terrorism along the Hiawatha line? Will five officers for three years, as it says in the article, be enough? What about etiquette and behavior riding public transit?
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Comments: 3
But, folks, we have no money. Liberalism has build up this great infrastructure that it can't afford. They are living beyond their means. So, we now get the Feds to bail out states and counties. Where is the Fed getting all this Monopoly money? Why of course, China, or they just print it.
Hope you folks are diversifying your IRA, 401k's, 403B's . All this giving and borrowing free for all is going to cause massive inflation!
Eliza, do you expect to get Social Security? And if you get it, will it be worth anything?
b) Federal support should not come with federal mandates on engineering designs and other decision that are better off being local.
But federal money DOES come with strings! That was the main purpose of the PORKULUS BILL!