Why Vote No

Cuz Fuck TransLink, that's why.  Don't mistake my language for ignorance, for that I am not.  Do I think corporations are evil?  Probably not, but shit son...know who you're getting into bed with.  For those of you who are unaware, allow me to paint the picture as I see it:

TransLink wants our money.  More than they already glean from their shoddy service and corrupt means.  They have introduced a plebiscite in which the dredges of society have the "opportunity" to vote on a new proposed tax hike of 0.5 percent.  The claim is that the tax will provide endless new transit momentum for it's riders in new and exciting ways.  Yes, because that's where our tax dollars usually go...reforming the empire that exists to make it better for the people, by the people.  Beyond the transparent corruption that the corporation has entrenched itself in, which seems to be the only reason people are clinging to, I propose a few other concepts for titillation.  Such as the fact that the tax is truly going to affect the quality of life for those hovering around or below the poverty line.  I work sixty hours a week at two jobs.  I am barely keeping my head above water and I don't believe myself to be alone in this struggle.  I take transit everyday, several times.  Trust me when I tell you, I know how shitty it is.  Long wait times, endless lines, unsafe travel conditions as every week a station is shutdown due to some kind of police emergency, expensive fares, and inadequate access to the city at non-peak hours.  I could go on but you get the picture.  This company has squandered the money they do receive and are now demanding we pay more for dollars going directly into their pockets for lavish trips and yearly salary that puts my meager earnings to such shame.  Blood from stone much?

Look around people and please think for yourselves.  Wonder why you see so much propaganda to vote Yes on this matter?  Where are the no ads screaming at us from every bus/train station?  Where are the giant billboards asking you to think for yourself instead of being brainwashed by giant letters and lavish marketing.  Those ads aren't cheap.  Could have put that money towards a few new skytrain cars.  Voting no means realizing that big business doesn't own our thoughts or decision making abilities.  We need to reclaim our ability to sus out the nonsense from what's legitimate.  TransLink has not been held accountable for any of its past indiscretions...like where the fuck is Compass?  Millions spent to install a program of fare gathering that's been years in the making with no results.  Endless tickets being handed out to commuters who forgot their bus pass easily make the company nearly seven hundred thousand dollars a year...where is that going?  I do realize that this is merely a plebiscite and the wise ones in charge inevitably have the final say, but I ask for all us little peons to use our sheer numbers to cry out, "No more!"  No more will we pay into a program that gives us nothing in return.  No more will we put up with deplorable service when another way exists.  No more will we sit idly by while more and more TransLink cuntomer service employees are hired to stand around and gossip at every station instead of providing a service and keeping people safe.  No more will we be leeched on to provide those in charge with a hefty bonus and second summer home.  You think they'll stop at point five percent?  You think allowing this tax will fix our city and promote transit?  Where are the other ideas?  The former chair of TransLink has voted no because he's seen first hand what this money pit is capable of.  There is another way:  http://www.news1130.com/  In fact I'm sure there are several but we've been bamboozled into believing that this the only one.  Vote no and save your money for a ticket to a town that respects its inhabitants instead of drinking them dry.