RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE ANGRY RAGE!*

(This post had a different title, but I have changed it.)

via lauredhel

Livery Drivers Protest Wheelchair Service Requirements (In New York) (There's a video at the link but it's basically the text in video form.)

"It's really unfair that Taxi and Limousine Commission and the commissioner would be punishing us by fining us thousands of dollars for not being able to respond to someone on a wheelchair within three minutes like we would with a regular person," Mateo said.

"We've seen cutbacks in Access-a-Ride and now we're being told we can't access the Livery system. We're being held hostage here," said Brooklyn Independence Center For The Disabled Executive Director Marvin Wasserman.

also:

"We are suspending all service to the wheelchair community," said New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers President Fernando Mateo.

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Image description: Michael Ignatieff (older white dude in a sensible blue shirt and tie, his hair a bit windblown) with the caption "Don't let anybody into Medicare".

Actual quote: "Don't let anybody intimidate you".

I wonder if I could cause huge scandal by sending a caption of the leader of Canada's vaguely leftist center party saying "Don't let anybody into Medicare" on the official YouTube channel of the Liberal Party to someone.