Perhaps the MTA can learn from the Mayor, who should be commended for pulling council money for groups who are not producing. http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062009/news/regionalnews/mike_pulls_council_money_for_groups_158263.htm
The MTA should examine and cut its own budget, significantly, before extracting more money from hard working New Yorkers.

In fact, the Council should ask how former Councilman Stephen DiBrienza, has managed to keep a district office open with grant money. This story will explain the absolute waste of your tax dollars: http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062009/news/regionalnews/grants_keep_ex_pol_in_office_158236.htm

Today's editorial in the New York Post is a must read for President Obama: http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062009/postopinion/editorials/the_missiles_of_march_158207.htm
And he should also be reading Charles Krauthammer who writes of President Obama's "clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core". http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/03/06/obamas_big_bang_agenda

The Wall Street Journal has an opinion column by Sally Pipes on the Administration's expansion of health care which is worth reading: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629779856246193.html