That’s Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and that is about the only proper response to CATS blowing $180,000 on a streetcar that will never run Uptown.
No need to dwell on that money — it is gone. Much larger questions about CATS involve millions, tens of million, and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Meanwhile, more CATS and transit tax-repeal opponent relevant quotes from Streetcar. Try to imagine some of the major players Uptown using these lines or having the lines said to them. Pretty easy:
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never, ever been guilty of.
Oh look, we have created enchantment.
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman’s charm is 50% illusion.
I said I was sorry three times!
You’re married to a madman.
Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy.
How about a few more details on that subject… Let’s cop a gander at the bill of sale… What do you mean? She didn’t show you no papers, no deed of sale or nothin’ like that?
The blind are leading the blind!
And, finally, Charlotte’s light rail experience in a couple lines, going all the way back to the 1998 campaign for the half-cent:
I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.
