Dear Matt Logan,
It comes as no surprise that Democrats embrace Federal and State
intrusion into zoning and worse to create "ideal" living spaces under
the banner of "smart growth." But lest we not forget what State
intrusion did to our neighborhoods, large cities, and small towns in the
1960s. Instead of small human sized growth, the mantra was
"consolidated schools." Only through consolidation would schools afford
the full array of services to children and youth. A state education
taskforce of specialists in promoting concurrence and forcing local
communities to vote and comply with consolidation was mobilized. I
know only too well what happened in my small town. My Mother taught at
the Brandon High School, a wonderful small high school in those days.
The school had all the subjects a student could ask for in college
preparation as well as the work world. A foreign language was offered,
all the sciences, as well as the shop courses. Then along came the
State organizer, probably with Obama's playbook, RULES FOR RADICALS,
then hot off the presses. Ever since, the high school is eight miles
away. No children ride bicycles to school from Brandon and they don't
ride them anywhere, anymore. And, has anybody brought up the total
gasoline and oil usage by the fleets of hundreds of thousands of school
buses that were put into service to accommodate the new consolidations
at all levels of our State schools? Was that not the "professional
smart growth" of the day? Wasn't that the result of committees of the
"best minds in the field of education? And now this group wants to
reverse the "WILL OF THE STATE" with another plan--friendly, human sized
growth? At least that WILL of the nineteen sixties and seventies--of
the STATE. The post below was entered to indicate that Obama is the guy
for such "brain trusting" new "smart growth." Well big Government is
the only agent which can force such changes as consolidated big schools
on the local people--and the Democrats and Obama are the immediate
agents of bigger yet, coercive--Government.
Eric
Matt Logan wrote:
Unlike the primaries, I have easily found policy statements on
transportation issues of two leading presidential candidates:
http://tinyurl.com/3tfu2q
There's also a nice summary here:
http://tinyurl.com/42gmn6
_______________________________________________
Bikies mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
_______________________________________________
Bikies mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
