Posted on 11/25/2012 7:14:51 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
At the end of a recent community meeting on the state transportation system, a grandmotherly woman with a lyrical Caribbean accent strode up to the top transportation official in Massachusetts, dispensing with pleasantries.
“Let me tell you something,” she told Transportation Secretary Richard A. Davey. “I am so upset with Number 28.”
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The airport is the golden cow that never stops. It pissed me off even more the Atlanta City Council forced the name change from Hartsfield to Hartsfield - Jackson International Airport.
The only thing fat bastard Maynard ever did was to figure out he and his black cronies could get rich off the airport concession rights. It has been that way ever since then.
Meanwhile, streets are crumbling, water lines over 120 years old are disintegrating, crime and murders are continuing under greatly altered dubious reporting guidelines, and the ‘constituents’ of Atlanta keep electing them.
There was a reason that the “Walking Dead” series focused on Atlanta as the nearest Urban area to to zombie infestation. It is a reality here and now today.
I learn something new every day. Who knew commuting was racist?
The only gap is the wide empty space between the ears of people who come up with this kind of conclusion.
Normal people should stay as far away from the concentrated Democrat parasite nests (”cities”) as possible.
Apparently too few of us are voting for George O’Brien.
In a government bureaucracy, your status and compensation is determined by the number of people you manage and the size of the budget you oversee. That tells you all you need to know about why government managers would not be interested in anything that would allow them to operate with fewer people and a reduced budget.
“First, if you truly want to be race-blind....”
Your assumption is 180-degrees wrong.
Being “race-blind” is the LAST thing they “truly want”.
“The real issue is simple that commuting by car is apparently faster than commuting by bus.”
I think the real thrust of this article is that “minorities should be relocated to the suburban communities in which whites live, so they, too, can have shorter commutes.”
Next up will be subsidized cars in which to take the shorter drive to work....
I learn something new every day. Who knew commuting was racist?
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Indeed. And you don’t see those buses that carry white folks stopping for traffic lights and to pick up and drop off passengers. Red traffic lights and passenger stops (other than “mine”) are obviously racist.
Just looked up on Google the time between two points I regularly travel here in Pinellas County, FL.
Bus: 2 hours, 28 minutes. And that’s with a continuous route, no transfers.
Car: 45 minutes.
Now the bus could travel from point A to point B in the same time as the car, if it didn’t stop every couple of blocks and let people get on and off.
But wouldn’t that pretty much eliminate its utility, except for that tiny percentage who want only to go from A to B?
BTW, the most efficient way to use public transportation around here is to combine it with a bike. You just stick the bike on the front of the bus. Of course, it will only handle two bikes, so it’s not a widely usable solution.
Boston is one of those few places where it doesn't make sense to drive.
Eventually we are going to realize that not being black is a racist act in and of itself
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That is definitely the ‘bottom line’.
BUT it will never be resolved.
Build a highway through a white neighborhood and the black neighborhood gripes that the whites get the money while they don’t.
Propose the same highway through the black neighborhood and the blacks complain they are always being disrupted.
Few years back big controversy over the sellers of crack getting double the time of the sellers of powder cocaine, which was, in effect, “RACIST”.
The black sellers couldn’t afford to buy the ‘good pure stuff’ so they had to buy it and cut it (whatever)
For a change I did agree with the argument about the disparity in sentencing.
Raise the sentence guideline for powder to coincide with the crack.
Well, I threw in the towel prior to the election, I AM AN AVOWED RACIST.
Now that I have made the declaration, they gain nothing by accusing me of it....
Eventually we are going to realize that not being black is a racist act in and of itself
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That is definitely the ‘bottom line’.
BUT it will never be resolved.
Build a highway through a white neighborhood and the black neighborhood gripes that the whites get the money while they don’t.
Propose the same highway through the black neighborhood and the blacks complain they are always being disrupted.
Few years back big controversy over the sellers of crack getting double the time of the sellers of powder cocaine, which was, in effect, “RACIST”.
The black sellers couldn’t afford to buy the ‘good pure stuff’ so they had to buy it and cut it (whatever)
For a change I did agree with the argument about the disparity in sentencing.
Raise the sentence guideline for powder to coincide with the crack.
Well, I threw in the towel prior to the election, I AM AN AVOWED RACIST.
Now that I have made the declaration, they gain nothing by accusing me of it....
“The only gap is the wide empty space”
...yeah, you’re right. Dukakis was a real freedom fighter. Believed in lower taxes and stuff.
Blacks here called that racist because it tore down the only houses they could afford.
My comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek about the continual failures of liberal nostrums.
More Leftist horse sh*t from Marxachusetts.
The state is a lost cause; forget about it.
You do realize that buses can travel in a straight line ~ they do that even in New York city! Yet, your typical bus route has meanders and side trips that cannot possibly be justified ~ there you are going down the road, slick as a whistle, and the driver then does a left into a side street, does a looptyloop, and crosses the main drag only to do another looptyloop ~ and nobody gets on or gets off!
It's always been that way. No will dare change it. And if you dig back through the history of the route changes the decision for each looptyloop was made by a big politician in the local government WHO IS NOW LONG DEAD!
They write books about the phenomenon ~ then you'll get a Willie Greene come along and he'll tell you how buses cannot ever haul as many people as well to as many stops as can a fixed route street trolly or highspeed rail!
Of course that's going to happen if you never try to properly route the buses, and tweak them from time to time to meet new needs and take advantage of road improvements.
The hapless folks who are stuck taking the buses from the inner city to suburban retail or highrise residential areas (where they work) can tell you about all of this, which I gather they did in that survey, but the political elites do instantly start thinking of 'fairness' ~ not fixing the stupid schedules and routes!
Several decades back I came up with a proposal to reroute all USPS rural routes (city routes having been taken care of at the time) so that we optimize the head-out office problem (how few post offices are needed to support rural carrier service nationwide) ~ the big benefit was we'd close 28,000 of them!
The postmasters, mostly women, at all of those small offices organized ~ so it was a big political question, but we'd ignore that and simply reroute the carriers to about 1500 main headout offices, and the carriers would deliver all the mail to everybody to street boxes in front of their homes!
You know how far I got with that idea. The postmistresses would rather you drive to their town and get the mail from a post office box at their offices than allow you to get rural delivery at home like a civilized person.
During the debate, somebody came up with the idea of attacking my proposal by looking at all the newspaper articles that'd ever been published about a post office closing. So, we did that ~ at some expense, but believe it or now in the US government you can do such things ~ get all the news articles (this was long before the internet BTW).
I took a look at a few dozen and decided we needed to divide the comments into what ordinary people said, what postmistresses said, and what politicians said.
As expected 100% of the ordinary people said "Great Idea, do it". The postmistresses all said it would hurt service (even though it was going to deliver the average mail piece to a rural customer a day and a half earlier).
The politicians, though, surprised me! They said "People will lose their identities" ~ literally their words! All of them. For the politicians it wasn't about improved service, lower cost, faster mail, or job protection ~ it was about what they perceived to be an "identity crisis" among the adults who would be affected by the changes in delivery service.
Look, politicians don't think like you and I, or even like union members (postmistresses are unionized). They are off on a different planet with different rules, where up is down, left is right, and adults have identity crises!
Fact is, crack cocaine is only 10% cocaine. If you want to be logical, then it should take ten times more crack to be a felony quantity.
However, the war on some drugs is anything but logical. It mainly has been a tool that allowed the feral government to acquire a monopoly on health care.
You can make the argument that, were it not for the war on some drugs, Obamacare could never have happened.
So thanks for that.
that allowed the feral government to acquire a monopoly on health care.
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Being a former drunk (and a ‘good’ one at that) even I realized when ‘they’ proclaimed drug and/or alcohol abuse to be ‘illnesses’ rather than ‘choice’ that it was going to lead to no good.
Yes, it spawned health care programs and guess you will find a lot of ‘stressed out druggies/alkies that worked maybe 1/3 (if lucky) of their productive years on SS Disability....
Then ‘they’ have the nerve to wonder why we are weeweed off, again the legitimate SS drawers are being portrayed as the leeches (after ‘contributing’ 40-50+ years) and the leeches are being portrayed as the deserving...
BIZZARO WORLD.......
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