Posted on 05/26/2009 10:21:11 AM PDT by ClassicLiberal
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a group of reporters at the National Press Club on Thursday that he wants to coerce people out of their cars.
In Newsweek magazine last week, nationally syndicated columnist George Will published a piece critical of Lahood, entitled, Ray LaHood, Transformed--Secretary of Behavior Modification.
He says he has joined a transformational administration: I think we can change people's behavior, Will reports that LaHood said over lunch.
LaHood, a former Republican congressman from Peoria, Ill., has become a champion of using the Department of Transportation and federal transportation spending to get people to take trains, busses, and ride bikes instead of driving cars.
At the National Press Club on Thursday he attempted to respond to George Wills column and to explain his vision for using the power of government to change peoples transportation behavior and to change the nature of American residential communities.
We want to really--and notwithstanding the fact that George Will doesn't like this idea--the idea of creating opportunities for people to get out of their cars--and we're working with the secretary of HUD, Shaun Donovan, on opportunities for housing, walking paths, biking paths, said LaHood. If somebody wants to ride their bike, if--to work or to the place of employment or to other places--mass transit, light rail--creating opportunities for what we call livable communities.
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No, he NEEDS his car.
Tax it, set insane goals, legislate against it, regulate it. That’s the government way. If they don’t like it, they will make sure you see things their way. Tyrrany at the doorstep.
Any decent person in public office would use a verb like “entice” or “tempt” or “persuade”, not COERCE!
The Demonazis must feel they have already closed the trap on us and there’s nothing we can do.
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What about all the horse farts? Additional pollution. s/o
Okay! He can can it, light it and commute home in a hot air balloon! LOL!
I had someone call and come by from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), supposedly doing a survey. The strangest part was that I have never received anything from HHS, unless you count heartburn over their liberal policies. They claimed that my house had been picked at random and if I didn't cooperate their survey would be messed up. I guess they are putting together a new survey, since I literally didn't have the time - and wouldn't have cooperated even if I did.
LOL!
I think...
When he says he will use coersion, he better be ready for a fight.
Agreed,
persuasion is a nice political way of saying coercion.
Hard Starboard, Check your Mail, please.
Now that you mention it, he looks like a Sopranos reject.
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