Joe Biden owes me $2.50
You read that right. Joe Biden owes me $2.50. I park on Chestnut Street at a meter most days for work, and today every meter was off-limits under threat of being towed. All because, in “Philadelphia for his first official Middle Class Task Force meeting, Biden focused on a green theme as remedy to the nation’s economic troubles.” Philadelphia cops are getting shot like it’s a new sport, and Mayor Nutter and Governor Rendell and Vice President Biden somehow have time to dick around next door at the University of Pennsylvania with a photo-op bullshit meeting about how weatherizing houses is going to save the economy. You want to help the economy, Joe? Help mine — hand over the $2.50 you owe me.
I pay $1.50 per hour to park in a metered spot on the street (it was only $1.00 per hour just a month ago, but Philly jacked up the price by 50% and now we only get 10 minutes for a quarter). I would have parked at a meter today for a little more than 5 ½ hours, which comes to $8.50. But all of those meters had police signs on them because Biden was in town saving the world with our local politicians, every one of them sucking up in the hopes of getting stimulated good and hard with all the new green paper the Fed is printing. Whenever one of these big-shot tools comes to town, they shut down all the metered parking. So I had to park in a lot for $11.00. That’s $2.50 more than I should have paid for parking today, because of Joe Biden.
I want my $2.50, Joe Biden. You don’t scare me. Obama can keep that “Nobody messes with Joe” nonsense to himself. I ain’t buying it. I can’t afford to. Not without my $2.50, anyway.
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Scott,
We have agents on the ground in University City, and one of the most secretive ones–namely, my mother–informed me UC meters are up to $2 per hour on some blocks. Unless she miscalculated or I misheard. So I read your post in the most positive of lights… fifty cents less closer to Drexel!
I’m tempted to tell you that a faculty sticker at Clemson is only $20 for the whole year, and they do have spaces if we get there at a reasonable hour. (Late arriving students are the ones in bad shape for parking here.) And I’m tempted to tell you the public bus is free and runs twice an hour. But then again, I may not even be an edutainment cog in this particular wheel next year, and our $2 movie theater has closed down along with a couple bars downtown. (Please do not imagine we enjoyed foreign film and drank imported beer.) One new-used bookstore is staying to fight the good fight–so far–and the Clemson version of a B&N campus bookstore doesn’t order much trade/quality paperbacks but they do have about 1000 (no missing zeroes) on hand to choose from. Oy.
UPenn-Drexel-Amtrak is an economic machine not be taken lightly. Maybe you can get Wharton to sponsor your car?
Park wisely,
Alex
Alex notes “much” should be “many” in the fourth line from the bottom in a world typing quickly.
Well, I mean, look.
At least it’s -high quality- parking.
You get what you pay for.
Scott,
The more I think about it, the more this bothers me. In addition to oweing you $2.50, he owes the City $8.50 in lost revenue.
Meanwhile, your $11.00 went to the owner of the lot, who is probably a fat cat political donor who will just shunt the money back into Biden’s political coffers. This is exactly the kind of corruption that we have sadly come to expect from career politicians.
Big bad Joe owes you a heck of a lot more than $2.50, but cheer up — when he and his boss institute their cap-and-trade program, you won’t be able to afford your car, much less gasoline to put in it and tolls for parking!
Are “good liberals,” “moderate Democrats,” “tenured radicals,” and other writers involved in this website going to represent???
I am willing to give old Joe a chance–a chance at least to say it ain’t so. Scranton is too close to home–economically, spiritually, emotionally, geographically–for me to hit him up for quarters. I think we can find some others out there with a lot more coin to spare.
I told my students we have to wait until June before we call it the Obama recession. For now, it is still the third Bush recession (going back to 1991).
On a side note, Obama is said to have said to Biden when looking at his financial statements, “All these years, and you’re still not rich?” That’s a paraphrase, and I think it helps us understand that Biden has tried to act as a public servant throughout his career. I’m sure he has made mistakes, helped friends, etc. But perhaps we all have???
All the same, I suppose I should also send a shout out to my libertarian friends… I never knew I had so many.
You pay $8.50 a day for parking? I think you should really look for alternatives, like a kind of monthly pass or even public transportation…