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They also spurred the development of sprawling communities where cars, the most expensive form of transportation around, became the logical way to get from point A to point B. The lowest gas tax in the industrialized world masked the true cost of operating these cars, while federal highway funds meant drivers never felt the cost of building all the roads that were paved to serve them.

...For our politicians the questions revolve around similar values. Do your policies reward and encourage investment in education for the long term or consumption in the moment?

Drivers pay gas taxes that go directly to roads. Where is the tax that the users of the education system pay to subsidize student loans? If anything, the student loan crowd is the one getting the free ride. Why does the WSJ print this claptrap?

1 posted on 11/03/2011 6:54:11 AM PDT by throwback
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It isn't your dad's WSJ anymore.

Its just another leftwing rag, with a corporate twist.

2 posted on 11/03/2011 6:58:01 AM PDT by skeeter
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The sincerest protesters that Soros money can buy!


3 posted on 11/03/2011 6:59:19 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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Drivers pay gas taxes that go directly to roads.

Unfortunately, in Illinois the state government puts the gas tax into the general fund. With less money for roads the state built tollways. Nice fix, huh?


4 posted on 11/03/2011 6:59:39 AM PDT by saltshaker
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Heads full of Marxist mush put there by a Marxist infested NEA.


6 posted on 11/03/2011 7:05:31 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“...they are mainly educated...”

That, sir, is questionable.

Given what I’ve heard from them when they’re foolish enough to talk, I find it sufficient for criminal prosecution of the “professors” that deigned to take money from those gullable children.


9 posted on 11/03/2011 7:12:27 AM PDT by Da Coyote (Politics is proof of God. He created a position for those without any abilities whatsoever.)
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I feel like that anonymous aide in Star Wars who approaches the Death Star Commander.

“We have analyzed their attack plans, and there is a danger”.

The longer the economy stays down the more people will be open to be swayed by arguments that the 1% have “too much” and that the banks “need to pay us back for bailing them out”.


11 posted on 11/03/2011 7:16:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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they are NOT the 99%, nor anything like it. infact, they’re fewer than the 1% they rail against. nobody appointed, elected, asked, or chose them to speak for anybody but themselves.


12 posted on 11/03/2011 7:17:36 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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Umm...we are the 99%.


14 posted on 11/03/2011 7:23:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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they are mainly educated, middle-class and completely sincere.

Naive and foolish obviously aren't in his dictionary.

15 posted on 11/03/2011 7:25:41 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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WSJ is the finest newspaper in the world. I guess they have to give some space to their resident leftest pinko staff writer.


17 posted on 11/03/2011 7:27:40 AM PDT by catfish1957 (A politican with a heart usually means they have one hand in our pocketbooks!!!)
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These marxist heathens aren’t 99% of anything...


18 posted on 11/03/2011 7:29:13 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Couldn’t read the entire article, but from the start, the issue with the protestors is; their anger is misdirected—gov’t mandate initiated and sustained the meltdown. Any fool knows that lending institutions were forced by gov’t mandate and their gangs of lawyers (obuttface was one of them) to make risky loans, mostly just another form of welfare for africans, hispanics and other selected special people. My cousin in the business told me two years ahead of the collapse what was coming and why.


20 posted on 11/03/2011 7:34:21 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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Just sayin' ...

Maybe the Occupy Wall Street crowd should seriously consider Occupying ABC, CBS and NBC television and radio studios. That way, they can ensure that their message gets out.

21 posted on 11/03/2011 7:39:12 AM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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But when people refer to the protesters as "hippies" and sneer about their hygiene, they miss the point entirely. Those who focus on the look and feel of the OWS movement ignore the obvious fact that, like the early protesters of the 1960s, they are mainly educated, middle-class and completely sincere.

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So then, according to this flaming brain addled Liberal, having knowledge on the subject your are talking or demonstrating about or for is trumped by your education, your social status and your sincerity.

Limbaugh was right on when he said all those years ago the Left never thinks, it feels. There isn't an ounce of real common sense and not a shred of ability to employ cognitive thinking. They live in a world where they actually believe if we could all sit down and join hands, sing a chorus or two of Kum Bi Ya, why everything would be wonderful. They are both pathetic and dangerous.

25 posted on 11/03/2011 7:49:35 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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These are the same people who wanted to overthrow our government in the 30’s and the 60’s. Communists essentially; Bill Ayers types..

They are using the bailout outrage to draw in naive people to their side.

28 posted on 11/03/2011 7:53:30 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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Wake Up And Donate!


Click The Pic

Let's Make The Bar Yellow!

29 posted on 11/03/2011 7:58:17 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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“Those who focus on the look and feel of the OWS movement ignore the obvious fact that, like the early protesters of the 1960s, they are mainly educated, middle-class and completely sincere.”

Total BS!!!!

Gun them down like they should have done in the 60s!!!!


35 posted on 11/03/2011 8:10:47 AM PDT by dalereed (uity wise!)
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Do your policies reward and encourage investment in education for the long term or consumption in the moment?

Are we paying 100,000 for a college education that conveyed the same knowledge that a high school graduate had in the 1950's? Have our teachers unions and politicians made real progress regarding education?

37 posted on 11/03/2011 8:28:31 AM PDT by Raycpa
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they are mainly educated

99% of the 99% are not educated. A four year degree even in a moderately serious major is a total joke. 99% of college grads don't read any classics in college. 99% of history teachers use the modern revisionist method and place nothing in perspective. 99% of classes can be passed with virtually no effort. 99% of the time you can be drunk and graduate college.

39 posted on 11/03/2011 8:32:53 AM PDT by douginthearmy
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We Should Listen to the 99%

First of all, they aren't the 99% they claim to be, so why would we listen to a bunch of liars?

40 posted on 11/03/2011 8:48:55 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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