Posted on 05/26/2009 5:42:24 AM PDT by SJackson
That’s the elephant in the room which the pols and the media are completely ignoring.
And it’s right in their face.
Inner cities are out of control with drugs, crime, and nobody with any choice and in their right mind would send their kids to inner ccity schools.
Clean up the corrupt, totally failed school systems, crack down hard on crime, cut people off welfare, and a lot of people probably would move back to the cities.
All ‘good’ cities -— like Paris, Toronto, and San Antonio TX have lively downtowns, well-policed, no graffiti. Maybe the school systems are not so great.
And it’s because of tourism, but still.
But will they clean up the inner cities? When hell freezes over and the corrupt city councils are taken away in manacles.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
I wish some brave reporter would just yell at LaHood -— ‘Clean up the inner cities and maybe people would move back. Answer that!’
Two words:
Tar.
Feathers.
Now this Administration thinks its their Constitutional duty to force people out of their cars. What’s next?
Note to Secretary Lahood: You won’t force me out of my car, putz.
I’ll live in the city when I am allowed to properly arm myself.
bite your tongue! we still have part of the helicopter program.......layoffs were last week. we are expecting lots more layoffs without them cutting more helicopters.
Obamaism is fascism.
Content aside, I am guessing that this was written by the 4th grade child of the person in the byline. Are reporters no longer held to basic standards such as the knowledge of grammar/spelling or the construction of coherent sentences?
Only two of many examples of sloppy, illogical writing:
1) He says he has joined a transformational administration: I think we can change people’s behavior, Will reports that Lahood said over lunch.
2) Lahood ...to get people to take trains, busses, and ride bikes instead of driving cars.
(Busses? Do I get to choose my kissing partner?)
LOL!
I would love to see Obama spend one evening trying to manage this household!
Chris Dodd is going to do his darndest to wrastle it away.
He’s been at it ever since Sikorsky lost.
Now his political career is severely threatened - and he needs this contract.
This is all about politics.
Mobility is as threatening to fascists as free speech and the right to bear arms are.
They must control your movements, your language, your every thought and action or they cannot succeed.
Yep...we live in a good school district - rural area.
Our home is in the countryside where the kids can’t find too much trouble - and we have alot of control as to what their activities are and what kids they are hanging around.
Don’t forget the other moron, Chuck Hurley of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Along with LaHood, he belives when you drive that you should be randomly pulled over and checked out and if you are doing anything wrong, be fined. This is the plank of MADD.
Hey, Ray. You first. Lead by example. What? You’re too important to do so? Well, I’m your employer, I guess that makes me too important to do so, as well.
Not to be pie-in-the-sky about this, but imagine having a plugin hybrid flex-fuel 4x4 in your garage, a solar panel below a small wind turbine on your barn roof.
A couple hundred gallons of bio-ethanol out back.
And being completely, utterly shielded from any gas or transportation cutoffs. In nice weather, your 4x4 could charge and run directly off solar - for free. In the winter - wind (and solar). If there’s a really cold stretch with no wind, run directly off gasoline for the cold-weather oomph.
If Iran and Israel drive the price of gas to $10, run ethanol.
None of that tech is more than 2 years from market.
There’s nothing liberal, about being self-sufficient or technically proficient.
Three more words: Double-Ought Buck.
You know what is funny?
About 50 years ago the big three auto makers conspired to destroy the Street Car and electric bus companies and were socked by congress with a couple of thousand dollars in fines.
Now with the federal government hot to destroy the automobile in America, the DOT which has build this vast network of superhighways wants to remove Americans from their cars and put them into the very things the Automobile industry destroyed 50 years ago and got a slap on the wrist for.
Personally I think our government is filled with the dumbest idiots on the face of this planet right now.
They are literally tripping over their own stupidity.
I used to hitch rides to work in the morning with Congresscritters. Can’t imagine any of them riding Metrorail.
what’s stopping the government from attaching some sort of measurement gizmo on that hybrid that reports units of energy you are producing and taxing you on it?
We’ll call it a “road usage tax” or something like that.
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