Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Thu Apr 2, 2009 5:46 AM
Ma'am;... Certainly we should tax gasoline more; but is that fair??? This people are the most powerless and miserable population on earth, and not because they do not have much; but because the price of getting that good is a target running downrange... Do we really need our jobs jumping all over the countryside??? Do we need to be whipsawed to death, with states competing with each other for factories until, to have a job, all workers are reduced to slavery???A federal system would work better for the workers...A national plan would work better for the country... How can the Germans keep their country the country and their cities as cities while we sprawl and sprawl until the outskirts of one city meet the outskirts of another??? There are small factories all the way from Lansing to Detroit, and no one can say where Detroit leaves off and Ann Arbor begins... Factories seek to escape old expensive infastructure, and the taxes are so cheap on their abandoned realestate, that they can simply walk, and find new workers, and new realestate... The thousands of miles of good farmland destroyed by this mindless progress is not a point of pride; but a mark of shame.... And People have to jump in their cars for work, usually one to a car, travelling hours a day... Of course they should pay for such behavior; if there were an alternative...There is no public transit system... That too is a mark of shame... And no one except the crazy or the drunk talk on the bus around here... All think of it as an indignity to have to share space with the poorest, and that is how public transit is percieved: the last chance to get there if the goal is not too distant...So what if I own an SUV???.There is no doubt that it is useful....And it costs... So it usually sits... But pack four or five people in it, and the fuel per person per mile gets down right reasonable...It is one thing for Europeans to run around in match box cars... Where do they have to go??? I have been twice in my life beyond the Mississippi...Does anyone think it would have been possible to get my family to go in a clown car??? We have families, and we like to go together, and for those people who out of common sense put their cities in one place and their scenery in another, who can go by train, having an expensive car that will not hold more than two is a smart decision... If you want people to drive small cars, give them a break... I have a car/truck that I don't drive one part of one percent of the time, that I must insure 100% of the time... Does that make sense???Does it make sense to have grocery stores miles away from auto parts stores that are miles away from hardware stores??? You want the average citizens to pay for the fact that their society is an anarchy... Believe me... We pay.... We pay with every hour out of our days stuck in traffic...We pay with every extra gallon of gasoline that we turn into pollution...We pay with every second of our limited lives that we spend at traffic lights... What is the point of government that does not manage national affairs to the best interest of all the people??? Sure; it has bent over making things easy for the owners, for the rich, for the businessmen... Has there been any trickle down benefit to America spending its life on the road to make a buck that goes in large part to buying time on the road to make a buck???It is crazy...It is anarchy...It is capitalism... And when it comes to paying for the cost of this mess; should it not be the rich who pay???Is there some reason a person with an income of a hundred million cannot live on ten million??? Would progress be stiffled??? Would capitalism come to an end???We have let so many jackassess in power cut their own deal in life, and if we had some democracy we could expect some common sense to it all... And we pay... Common sense must be more expensive than gold because it is more rare....And what we pay for the want of it is driving us to ruin... Thanks....Sweeney
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