The FY 2018 Trimet budget

These are my observations:
The full budget is HERE

It's interesting how transit executives throw the word "market" around. They use it to justify more money for themselves and less money and benefits for the people doing the work. First of all all of American public transportation is controlled by a clique of "transportation professionals" also known as career technocrats. It is they who control the so called "market". They set their own salaries. Its a fraudulent concept completely

#trimet lying greedy executives continue looting the treasury and distorting the word "market" to satisfy their greed pic.twitter.com/iLdNgxm08E

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While the neoliberal #trimet executives keep stealing more and more for themselves they brag about cutting employees pic.twitter.com/NRAS1lnxTV

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Public agencies like #trimet should be prohibited from assuming that investments will increase pic.twitter.com/bU53TeVBNc

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Public agencies such as #trimet should be required to fully fund their promised pensions and assume zero interest pic.twitter.com/iRSPCY94m5

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This should be scrapped completely given the reality of the Trump budget #trimet pic.twitter.com/YFsjK4eKnF

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Public transportations dirty little secret

Making money for the banksters #trimet

It's A LOT of money pic.twitter.com/6tLaktJk6S

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Neoliberal #trimet's idea of "equity" and "diversity" pic.twitter.com/KuwIqwr4wA

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Hard to believe but #trimet is still bloating its capital projects department

Unreal pic.twitter.com/cuP1DpCj6Y

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"Reliability"-whatever the hell that means-will get 17% of this pie pic.twitter.com/xt040ZEivn

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Although Mcfarlane himself is making more his 'office' is costing less pic.twitter.com/d9nq4mY1CI

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Pork filled 'public affairs' department is costing slightly more pic.twitter.com/2AHavkEh5W

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Interesting how 'safety and security' has doubled in 3 years and assaults are worse than ever pic.twitter.com/U93wV31MMS

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'Finance and administration' has increased by 33% in 3 years pic.twitter.com/G1WjzqUNBs

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These #trimet fucks actually budgeted $1.5m for TALENT MANAGEMENT

unbelievable they can get away with this crap pic.twitter.com/OyHnOvqJjH

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The failed WES and Portland streetcar suck down $16m pic.twitter.com/QIYawEXq0r

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#trimet has 2 separate line items for capital projects

It's a huge money sucker pic.twitter.com/9AdkJXM7TW

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Where does #trimet get its money ?

The green is not assured anymore pic.twitter.com/CYMc77b7ik

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Amazing how much of our taxes go to the banks for interest #scam #organizedcrime pic.twitter.com/miCA7og9Rv

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Interesting little chart of #trimet expense categories pic.twitter.com/hn2N35BVLV

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#trimet keeps cutting employee incentive programs

But by all means keep increasing the pork pic.twitter.com/IfZJOgyf41

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Mind telling me why the 'office of the General manager' needs 9 full time employees pic.twitter.com/y8af2CMkxi

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"public affairs" has 83 employees?

Get. Out. Of. Here. pic.twitter.com/AxPPvS8otI

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"Safety and security" has 65 employees? What for? pic.twitter.com/iF23DYlVCX

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'Information and technology" has 44 1/2 employees " pic.twitter.com/LWx2DKZoKe

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"finance and administration" has 97 employees? pic.twitter.com/vblwQAAkvg

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23 1/3 people in 'labor relations' pic.twitter.com/ibyb7BMVKV

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Operations division

Not broken down by who's doing what pic.twitter.com/LxYQmaWzmd

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There's 100 people in capital projects

Who knows what the hell they do all day pic.twitter.com/RqWQDAwFQ0

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This is interesting. All the union medical expenses are down and the non union are up! pic.twitter.com/5DGTmQErdZ

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I'd sure like to see a forensic audit off the office of the #trimet General manager pic.twitter.com/3IvzGbxF7p

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King Neil's slush fund account pic.twitter.com/Si9MI7TEI1

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I really question the so called "transit diversity and equity" department and what it actually does pic.twitter.com/t9oGSUpg4e

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"planning and policy"

Whatever pic.twitter.com/Fz4aIXuDFK

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And here we have the "marketing" department pic.twitter.com/xb4IpidhlT

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Here's a nice example of trimet bloated bureaucracy pic.twitter.com/XGuHbwlOfg

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"Customer experience"

Gawd

Its hillarious given the 'experience' is basically torture pic.twitter.com/0VZAypVQW2

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Hey! "customer experience" doesn't have an 'out-of-town travel budget'

Only one I've seen without it pic.twitter.com/QKtPl15Sjf

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Might be interested in knowing how much the training department people get paid pic.twitter.com/A95eAcyewv

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'Security services' budget has increased 35% in 3 years

But

Exclusion and tow hearings have fallen! pic.twitter.com/TK7Wn0uUrA

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Who the hell knows what all this "IT" crap is pic.twitter.com/A28zz3mSQv

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They have some sort of "steel bridge" insurance pic.twitter.com/GVoTwpgacs

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The "procurement advertising" budget has increased 48%

Who knows why pic.twitter.com/OeKVggrX52

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Some more breakdown of trimet payrolls pic.twitter.com/sMQ2eRMBhh

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Trimet pays a million a year in bank fees pic.twitter.com/gmnk0fJa0M

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Legal department pay scales pic.twitter.com/9bwg5MijYl

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Here's the field operations budget items pic.twitter.com/C2kwrLnJv8

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Look at how much gets wasted on the #trimet white elephant called WES pic.twitter.com/TN7OQxXdgO

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I think the #railvolution may be at an end unless they can figure out a way to get rid of the Republicans pic.twitter.com/wq3dSX0oiZ

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Every transit agency needs this stuff pic.twitter.com/2AacTFIapM

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