Freshman Seminar Fall 17 CRA

Evil Incarnate (cough MTA)

 

I hate the 6. The 6 is the epitome of evil in the world today. Want to go to school 30 minutes early so as not to be late for calculus? Well too bad, train malfunctions! At every stop. Every. Stop. And not just a few seconds but rather tens of minutes because the MTA’s mission is to deliberately make everyone late. One could wonder what those train delays are that occur everyday, if there even is anything wrong with the subway. We see train systems in Japan, the United Kingdom, even in despotic countries such as Qatar that have little to no problems whatsoever running at the fraction of the MTA’s budget. Speaking of the budget, the MTA’s is 15 billion dollars. The MTA’s budget of 15 billion is equivalent to Zimbabwe’s GDP of 15 billion. It took 15 billion dollars for dictator Robert Mugabe to rule his country with an Iron fist suppressing his people. The MTA can literally fund a mercenary army to go to war with Zimbabwe. For more comparisons let’s look at the Apollo program which took 25 billion dollars to see through to its competition. If we can put men on the moon to further advance humankind for 25 billion dollars, there is no doubt in my mind that we can use 15 billion dollars to fix an underground subway that encompasses .0001% of earth’s surface area.