I agree...I think we need more public transportation. I would love to dump my car, but until non-urban areas get decent and usable public trans, that will never be able to happen. Out in Aurora, IL, when I lived there, there was a bus that went to the transportation center where you boarded the Metra trains to go to downtown Chicago. This bus picked up about 2 houses down from where I lived. The only problem was that they stopped running the bus as 4pm...making it completely useless. There weren't any other busses that ran anywhere near where I lived between 5-7pm, when most people coming in from the city, would be arriving in Aurora. It's a 1-1 1hr 45min ride depending on if you get an express train or a local. So if you figure getting off work at 5 or 6pm, that is getting you out to Aurora at 6-7 pm. Aurora is even a relative lower middle class to lower class community where many rely on public transportation to get around. I also think more people would use public trans if they had a decent system that could get them to the placers they want to go. In some areas, this may not be feasible...like in rural areas. Maybe the solution is for the government to really push hard on AFVs and Eletric/Hybrid cars. What I would have loved to see is instead of the cash for clunkers, how about a direct exchange of your gas powered car for a hybrid or electric car. I would turn in my car for that in a heartbeat.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:22 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: [politics] Cost of tax cuts for the rich exceeds gains by budget cuts Obama or no Obama, we're in deep and we can't just cut spending and dig our way out. We are in a situation where, under the current system, we either: 1. keep going forward with the current plan, ultimately resulting in the debasement of the dollar, leading to $15/gallon oil, or 2. dramatically cut spending to balance the budget, resulting in misery for tens of millions of gun-owning middle class Americans. Both scenarios lead to the end of the car-centric American way of life. We have to figure out an alternative and we have to figure it out now. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why would I be the one bamboozled. I'm the one saying we're taking the > wrong course and you're the one saying Obama knows best. > > Two more years of this and we are done. I keep hoping one day Obama > will wake up and say not only was Bush right about terrorism, he was > right about the economy too. > I know, I'm a dreamer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336436 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
