How about balancing it on the backs of those who want it and use it, and leave the rest of us out of your latest gimme-gimme-gimme plan?

I have a motorcycle, which does me a lot more good than the crappy public transit system in Santa Cruz. Besides try being a woman on the bus around here. Have you ever seen all the creeps? I dont need to go come home from work every day afraid of what jerk is going to get off at my stop and follow me home.

Try public transit in Peru some time, and you will be grateful for what you have here in America. I don't make much by your standards, but I live better now than I ever did back home.

p.s. my brother owns a neighborhood sandwich shop, and he has a hard enough time paying us without you balancing your public transit costs on his back he says. I know you mean well but respect us please dont take from us what is not yours. We came here to get away from that.