Comments on: How Do We Make Clean Transportation Part of the National Discussion?

Comments on: How Do We Make Clean Transportation Part of the National Discussion? http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/08/29/how-do-we-make-clean-transportation-part-of-the-national-discussion/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:09:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Umberto Brayj http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/08/29/how-do-we-make-clean-transportation-part-of-the-national-discussion/comment-page-1/#comment-2155 Umberto Brayj Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:25:58 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1088#comment-2155 You don't. Large portions of our economy will cease to function, and those with the foresight to profit off of high energy prices from whatever comes next set the agenda for the next couple of generations. Nearly every American I know (esp. the baby boomers) thinks that a suburban home and a happy motoring lifestyle are examples of "the marketplace" in action and also the ideal living situation for everyone. In places without livable streets movements, you get "Potterville" or ghost towns. A bunch of foreign owned sweat shops open up in the midwest, and hire our workers at a pittance. Our government leases all of its property to private organizations in "Public Private Partnerships". In order to pay off our massive debts, we are forced to take on IMF-style "austerity" policies that destroy our ability to get credit pumped into our domestic economy. Wide-scale poverty brought on by the "austerity" policies that demand huge cuts in social programs leads to violent and corrupt political parties, and we're right back to our pre-civil war state in no time. The end. You don't.

Large portions of our economy will cease to function, and those with the foresight to profit off of high energy prices from whatever comes next set the agenda for the next couple of generations.

Nearly every American I know (esp. the baby boomers) thinks that a suburban home and a happy motoring lifestyle are examples of "the marketplace" in action and also the ideal living situation for everyone.

In places without livable streets movements, you get "Potterville" or ghost towns. A bunch of foreign owned sweat shops open up in the midwest, and hire our workers at a pittance. Our government leases all of its property to private organizations in "Public Private Partnerships". In order to pay off our massive debts, we are forced to take on IMF-style "austerity" policies that destroy our ability to get credit pumped into our domestic economy. Wide-scale poverty brought on by the "austerity" policies that demand huge cuts in social programs leads to violent and corrupt political parties, and we're right back to our pre-civil war state in no time.

The end.

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