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The Roads Warrior (Transportation Sec. says families can have one car, maybe two)
New York Times ^ | June 10, 2009 | Deborah Solomon

Posted on 06/13/2009 8:27:37 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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Q. President Obama has talked about his desire to wean Americans off automobiles.

A. What we’ve talked about is getting to a concept that we call livable communities, where people don’t have to get in a car every day. You can use light rail, you can use buses, you can use walking paths, you can use your bike.

Q. The conservative columnist George Will recently denounced you as the “secretary of behavior modification,” in reference to your plan to have Americans give up cars.

A. When George came over here for lunch, I could tell from the tone of our conversation that he wasn’t particularly keen on what we were trying to promote here.

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Q. But if Americans increasingly get around by rail, bus and bicycle, as you’ve planned, who will be buying cars in the future?

A. I think everybody will have an automobile. I think it’s amazing in America when you drive around and look at new homes that are being built, there are three-car garages. I don’t think you’re going to see families with three cars. I think you’re going to see families with one car, possibly two.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho2009; bho44; bhodot; cars; lahood; masstransit; restrictions; socialists; transportation
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Lahood thinks it's his business to decide to decide how many cars American families can own.

We need two car so we can both get to work and pay for all of Obama's grand plans. Does Lahood understand that cars and mass transit are complementary? Like many people, I drive to and from the train station.

1 posted on 06/13/2009 8:27:37 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Lahood thinks he’s still in the hood and in total of his turf, his homies, and his crib.


2 posted on 06/13/2009 8:33:39 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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“I don’t think you’re going to see families with three cars. I think you’re going to see families with one car, possibly two.”

These control freaks have GOT TO GO!!!


3 posted on 06/13/2009 8:34:03 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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“Lahood thinks it’s his business..”

I’m sure he’s been given his marching orders from the “one” who now decides what you can eat, drink, drive ,smoke, how much energy a family may use, how much money a family may earn, what type of government healthcare one shoud use and when one can fart.


4 posted on 06/13/2009 8:35:47 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: reaganaut1

Mass transit seldom works, you idiots. It’s not efficient, convenient, and most of all, it’s not safe.

Maybe you want to ride with beggars, thugs, and other assorted lowlife but most people, especially solo women, say no thanks.


5 posted on 06/13/2009 8:37:06 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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This is liberalism showing its true colors....ignorant of our nation’s history of wide open spaces and “go anywhere” attitude.

People like Lahood would like to see all Americans herded into population centers where they can use mass transit and the rest of the country would be deemed “off-limits” to humans except under special circumstances.


6 posted on 06/13/2009 8:37:23 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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IF this is a true interview and IF the replies are accurate, here's the money quote;

What we’ve talked about is getting to a concept that we call livable communities, where people don’t have to get in a car every day.

7 posted on 06/13/2009 8:38:07 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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To: reaganaut1

Cold, dead stick shift.


8 posted on 06/13/2009 8:38:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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**** President Obama has talked about his desire to wean Americans off automobiles. ****

The Dem’s wet dream for the last 35 years!
When you see billions spent on public transportation that no one wants to use, then you will understand why gas prices are going UP!UP!UP!


9 posted on 06/13/2009 8:38:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do so long as it is compulsory.)
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LaHood is a tool from the Paving Contractors Assoc. of Illinois, the front group of rich thugs who payoff Illinois pols to build more roads thru more farmland so other rich thugs can build crappy chipboard palaces at the edge of exurbia whereas other thugs can ship section 8 Democrats out of chicago to live in taxpayer paid splendor. He is talking out of his backside to appease that sliver of a demographic of white clueless libs that bill themselves “New Urbanists” where everyone is a vegan bicyclist who frets all day about AGW.


10 posted on 06/13/2009 8:39:41 AM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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Who the phuk does this guy and the Kenyan think they are?


11 posted on 06/13/2009 8:40:41 AM PDT by MarkT
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I have three cars. One is a 20 y.o. Accord......great mileage. Another is an AstroVan. They both serve different purposes. The third is a “beater” pick up that we use as a kind of motorized wheelbarrow. We never even take it off the ranch.

Wondering which of the three Hussein would make me give up.


12 posted on 06/13/2009 8:40:43 AM PDT by EggsAckley (There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
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What we’ve talked about is getting to a concept that we call livable communities, where people don’t have to get in a car every day.

No need to look further than Agenda 21

13 posted on 06/13/2009 8:42:48 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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They know what they are and we do too.

They are Commies.


14 posted on 06/13/2009 8:46:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
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To: EggsAckley
I have three cars. One is a 20 y.o. Accord......great mileage. Another is an AstroVan. They both serve different purposes. The third is a “beater” pick up that we use as a kind of motorized wheelbarrow. We never even take it off the ranch.

Wondering which of the three Hussein would make me give up.

He'd probably let you keep the Accord - for the time being - as you move from the ranch to a "livable community".

15 posted on 06/13/2009 8:47:36 AM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: reaganaut1

Sickening how our “civil servants” have turned into our masters.


16 posted on 06/13/2009 8:49:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: vladimir998

Just wait until they tell us how many square feet of living space per person. Expect another family to move in with yours!!


17 posted on 06/13/2009 8:50:04 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale Patriot)
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A. I think everybody will have an automobile. I think it’s amazing in America when you drive around and look at new homes that are being built, there are three-car garages. I don’t think you’re going to see families with three cars. I think you’re going to see families with one car, possibly two.

They actually have the nerve to reveal their intentions to single handedly revolutionize American society in a such way where they'll rid it of three-car garages and end families having multiple cars. We'll just herd everyone onto trains and buses, the rest can ride their bikes.

Never mind that such would be utterly impossible in a country with the size, infrastructure and societal dynamics of America, these megalomaniacs going to proclaim their inanity and go ahead with the clampdown regardless..

People argue over whether this admin is stupid, insane or evil. I say it's all three.

18 posted on 06/13/2009 8:50:56 AM PDT by AAABEST (And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
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This is liberalism showing its true colors....ignorant of our nation’s history of wide open spaces and “go anywhere” attitude.

A car represents freedom. Freedom of movement, freedom of activity, freedom from dependence.

Liberals, fascists that they are, just hate the fact that people have free will and want to remove outlets through which individuals can exercise that free will.
19 posted on 06/13/2009 8:51:24 AM PDT by LostInBayport (I hope the Supreme Court overturns Sotomayor's incompetent 'opinion' in Ricci as hearings begin...)
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To: reaganaut1

Communists at work in America. All hail King Obama


20 posted on 06/13/2009 8:51:38 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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