Tandempower
BIG MONEY-sure as heck controls USA- it gets a cut of every transaction that isn't pure barter-but very little to do with "cars".
Po folks-and all the rest of us- LOVE CARS!
How in hell did those Okies-Grapes of Wrath-manage to get to CA- and perhaps eventually find a better life??
Cars trucks on Route 66 and its like.Yeah we loved cars-think advertising sold them that truck??
Cars are/were soooo much fun-like a bike really. The same impulses that "make" us love bikes-makes us love cars!!
Fewer cars in various cities is ALWAYS FAVORED by the elite- they always will have affordable transportation-and protection
It isn't BIG OIL or BIG CAR MANUFACTURING or Developers that have the whip hand-they actually produce real useful products
Pretty sure a Goldman Sachs shill was sitting at President Obama's right hand- they are completely indifferent to how they skim/skin the rest of us-as long as we spend-they make out-and safe bet all those elite-prefer car lite cities-just like you.( safe bet they won't be pedaling)
You are inadvertently shilling for the same folks who *****ed about/sued because "Their view and property values were being ruined by wind turbines 10 miles off the Mass. coast"
Yeah-second "cottages" of course
Much/most of the 2008 "bad loans"(brought to us by BIG MONEY Goldmann Morgan Stanley etc) weren't new construction- they were churned sales-BIG MONEY made $$ 3 ways
1) Made $$ on the original crummy loans(points etc)
2)Made $$ When they bundled AND SOLD the crappy loan BUNDLES- to various customers-foreign and domestic investors banks funds etc- Oh they also claimed that "some complicated math we can't understand "made this Junk in=Junk out which was pure BS of course-at its heart they said "they won't fail because they didn't fail this way last year" Completely ignoring the truism- REAL ESTATE BUBBLES-ALWAYS POP!
3)MY FAVORITE-They made $$ BETTING that these crappy loan bundles they sold to treasured customers-WOULD FAIL!!
I just LOVE
#3 . Might not have even been illegal!!
These affluent folks ALWAYS favor "car lite cities" but "po folks" will always be the car lite ones of course.
And good affordable public transportation is only feasible in very big dense affluent cities-
It is just too expensive to run a trolley bus "light rail" if it isn't "full" almost all the time
and my suspicion is good affordable(meaning cheap $1/ride)public transportation-never directly "pays for itself"
The city has to subsidize it in some fashion-which makes sense in rich crowded cities NYNY
NOLA- my city-used to have GREAT cheap- 10 cents in 1965-public transportation-but we were RICH back then-with a much bigger population-QUEEN OF THE SOUTH- lots of BIG CORPS OIL SHIPPING-
Big Port and lots of mineral wealth-and we weren't as poor-maybe less violent-certainly not as well armed.
650,000 citizens in NOLA proper- now roughly 350,000 no or almost no fortune 500 headquarters
10 cents for a bus or trolley ride and so many lines if you played it right-got a transfer-the 10 cents could get you there-and back!!
Yeah-public transportation- takes a huge dense city-affluent city to make it affordable.
Earlier some poster said his 100,000 city-did a study-couldn't afford it.
Rust belt cities-some still big-Detroit-etc-can't afford whatever they have-can't pay pensions or current salaries