No one reads anymore....Code of Ethics for U.S. Government Service
Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring}, That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including officeholders.
CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Any person in Government service should:
1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principals and to country above loyalty to Government persons, party, or department.
2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion.
3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought.
4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished.
5. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept for himself or his family, favors or benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.
6. Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.
7. Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.
8. Never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means for making private profit.
9. Expose corruption wherever discovered.
10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.

The MBTA has been out of control for years! Mr. Bulger's Trans. Authority has been a home for hacks, criminals and union thugs for decades. It has been funded by polical hacks on Beacon Hill who swim in the same corrupt waters. How else to explain budget busting projects like the Greenbush "commuter train" from scituate to Boston at a huge cost. And now they want to put another line to, wait for it, wait...Fall River/New Bedford?!?!?!?! And this project was planned for around $500 million but would go much higher. I am baffled that in this climate, the T cannot be challenged and wrestled in. I thought Devil Patrick was going to change things and bring Hope and Change like his master Obumma? Want change? Support your local Republican in upcoming elections.

You need a new post. This one is getting old. Try posting something that has to do with the subject.

A privately held monopoly would be hated for making too much money. This government run monopoly can't make any money and in fact loses money. True, the T faces competition from other modes of transportation, but if prices weren't kept artificially low and costs kept artificially high, it might be able to break even. What other business continues to run in the red year after year without facing bankruptcy or reorganization? It is subsidized with tax dollars and still can't break even. The state will go bankrupt before the T faces any fiscal discipline.