{"id":2646,"date":"2010-01-12T05:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2010-01-12T05:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:28:40","slug":"tale-of-two-americas-corporate-greed-vs-union-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Tale Of Two America&#8217;s &#8211; Corporate Greed VS Government Need."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tale%20Of%20Two%20America%27s%20-%20Corporate%20Greed%20VS%20Government%20Need.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Remember when gas prices doubled and went up from $2 a gallon to over $4 a gallon, and the newsies threw a hissyfit?\u00a0 Here is the San Francisco Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/03\/30\/MNG50OUPG71.DTL\">monitoring the situation<\/a> as gas prices go above the then record of $3.36 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few years to 2010. The bay area subway system known as BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) has, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-transportation\/ci_14142274%29\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a> almost TRIPLED their rates. Add in the $1 parking fee, and well, lets just say this public mode of transport isn&#8217;t very economical. It&#8217;s a rip-off! So, how does the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s respond to this inflationary???? Googling &#8220;<em>sf chronicle bart price increase<\/em>&#8220;, the newest article concerning BART price increases appears to have been written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/06\/11\/BA47185TNH.DTL\">back in June of 2009<\/a>.\u00a0June??? I can&#8217;t believe the Chron hasn&#8217;t written anything about the BART situation since June. Actually, they have. Why, just yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.info\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/01\/11\/BA3B1BGBBR.DTL\">this\u00a0 piece<\/a> appeared in the Chronicle, titled \u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Hundreds ride BART sans pants&#8221;<\/strong> documenting a stunt perpetrated by the PLF to protest the high prices. No, not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CBQQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pacificlegal.org%2F&amp;ei=J15LS9K9B4GAsgOAu82EAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyMmk2-NmylEKy32zJxtR7Jy17EQ\">Pacific Legal Foundation<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=5&amp;ved=0CBwQFjAE&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPalestine_Liberation_Front&amp;ei=J15LS9K9B4GAsgOAu82EAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKeHXmbYPjdLpqa1YoDRvJ1ZPprw\">Palestinian Liberation Front<\/a>, but the Pants Liberation Front!\u00a0 Here is how the protesters summed up their feelings of this obviously important occasion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It feels strangely normal,&#8221; said Luke Jakobsson, a student from Castro Valley who rode BART from the East Bay in nothing but shoes, a Swedish soccer jersey and matching skivvies. &#8220;Although I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about the wind in my ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some wore frayed cotton boxers, others opted for pink satin thongs, and a few forewent underwear entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s refreshing. This is California,&#8221; said Katyana Gradler, who&#8217;s visiting from Pittsburgh and wore pink tights and not much else for the occasion. &#8220;At home, we couldn&#8217;t do this because there are 4 feet of snow on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her friend Enrico Rossi, an Oakland craftsman, took the pantless theme a step further, shedding shirt and underwear as well. Instead, he wore work boots and a taupe-colored, transparent leotard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, I lied. It wasn&#8217;t a protest of insane price increases.\u00a0 And there is no such thing as the &#8220;Pants Liberation Front&#8221;&#8230; though there should be. Anyway, i wonder why the throngs aren&#8217;t up in arm over the almost tripling of the cost of riding the BART? Could it be because that is not a privately run company?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, maybe all hope is not lost. The Chron did come out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/08\/15\/EDJN198OD6.DTL\">against the unions<\/a> when they threatened to strike last fall. Good for them. Wonder if they&#8217;ve ever gone against the teachers union?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tale%20Of%20Two%20America%27s%20-%20Corporate%20Greed%20VS%20Government%20Need.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Remember when gas prices doubled and went up from $2 a gallon to over $4 a gallon, and the newsies threw a hissyfit?\u00a0 Here is the San Francisco Chronicle monitoring the situation as gas prices go above the then record of $3.36 a gallon. Fast forward a few years to 2010. The bay area subway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,7,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}