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Company running commuter rail gets bonuses just for doing its job

The Globe has a fun piece detailing the relationship between the MBTA and MBCR:

Then, in 2007, the MBTA added contract language that effectively offset the penalties and the T began paying Mass Bay about $2 million a year in bonuses for trains that did arrive on time, even as customers were complaining that an increasing number of trains were arriving late or not at all.

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I hate this culture that companies can get bonuses for doing the jobs they are supposed to be doing.

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why are they all purple? Everyone in high level advertising knows colors are best way to communicate messages to mass audience...everyone knows purple has been the gay color since the late 60's. Has the gay militant agenda railroaded its wickedness upon our land? Did it all start in Mass? Has it all been a psychological guerilla warfare on our collective psyche? Yes Yes Yes The scariest part is the same evil geniuses are running the white house ....dripping their message using plants, word plays and metaphors to hypnotize Americans softening them up for communism which could mean mass killings by starvations and annihilation. If the politicians dont need the people anymore and the people are a threat to the wellbeing of the state, the people are eliminated. This is scene in all the world by wars, ethnic cleansings, mao, Stalin Hitler, and pol from cambodia. Morally they feel its ok to do because the state must survive, and their of course their power. Evolution is the critical philosophy that enable the moral justification, survival of the fittest, either you can figure life out and make your millions or you are in the states crosshairs...If you are of oppressed group affirmative action will change it for you. But its a casae of too little too late, becasue our problems are too burdensome, and we have reached the critical divide. Christ is mans only hope, but man has rejected him. America since 1962 and 64, and since those days government crime and social statistics which were flatline have trebled. Christ is provable objectively in history by looking at life of Alexander the GReat. He translated Old Testament into Greek giving us a benchmark date for this prophetic book containing 50 plus prophecies of Christ where he would be born isaiah 7 and 9, what he would do here Isaiah 61 1-3 where he would live micah 5 2, and be from, how he would die Isaiah 53 psalm 16 and 22 and how he would come back Zechariah 14. We know Alexander the Great lived 3oo years before Christ, providing a benchamark critics must acknowledge that Septuagint translation of old testament into greek occured before Jesus was born. The Dead Sea scrolls also corroborate this with Isaiah book found in tact and traced to 1st century bc. Simon Greenleaf who was known as the Harvard Royal Professor in 19th century along the Joseph Story built Harvard Law has stated after trying to disprove bible that it can be proven in any US court using ancient testimonial requirements. So this world proves that man in his pride and good intentions is still a fallen creature who cannot overcome his limits, needs a redemption, or will destroy himself, and as he does find ways to lie about it as his tempter satan the father of lies prompts.

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I was thinking the same thing myself. Those damn gays!!! And I hear you on Washington, too. A white man for the White House, I say!!! Isaiah wrote that the lion lay down next to the lamb, but the peace-loving hippies broke my first amendment right to know that the next line was censored: the lion ate the lamb because it was provided by God. We must repent lest we find we are the lamb.

Jeremiah 15:2 'This is what the LORD says: "'Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for starvation, to starvation; those for captivity, to captivity.'

Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

(Cripes.)

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You're supposed to take the red on in the morning and the blue one at night. You appear to have mixed them up and caught a touch of the crazy.

Oh, and just so there's no confusion, us gays have the entire rainbow, not just purple. We passed that by secret ballot back in the 80's.

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After all, he got the the gay color wrong. It is pink, not purple (not to start godwinning, but it was all started by the Nazis with the pink triangle). He should get his colors straight (pun intended).

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Dude,

That was AWESOME.

I mean, you know the color purple was applied arbitrarily after Red, Orange, Blue, Green and to a large extent Yellow was already taken leaving not too much left but used the purple thing to go on one of those conspiracy rants to make us laugh, right?

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Bob, don't listen to any of the haters here. Please continue posting, since your prose has the same pleasurable effect on my brain as a Hefty sack full of embalming fluid soaked rags.

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Payoffs for the politiclly corrected and for the poor black kid in the city a ticket for fare evasion.

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People use commuter rail to move around the city? They give tickets for fare evasion on this imaginary commuter rail poor black kids are taking??

CRIPES.

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The MBTA made the payments to the commuter rail operators.
The T runs the other lines and busses and tickets for fare evasion.
What part don't you understand ?

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Take Your Medication!

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