Posted on 07/06/2008 11:19:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Some kids entered SamTrans' "Art Take a Bus Ride" competition because they like to draw. Nine-year-old Kevin Huo of Foster City did it because he wants to help save the world.
"I had to get my message out to everyone so they'd understand that this Earth is getting sick," Huo says. "I want everyone to understand that they should ride the bus and lower their carbon footprints."
Huo, a third-grader at Audubon Elementary, won the contest's grand prize with a drawing he describes as a vision of a healthier future. SamTrans spent $5,000 to plaster one of its full-size buses with a blown-up version of the picture, in which windmills and solar panels form the backdrop for a line of smiling bus passengers.
A budding environmentalist who lists "looking at trees" as a favorite hobby, the precocious third-grader was an apt winner for a contest whose theme was "Go SamTrans, Go Green." He studies birds, enjoys learning about sustainability and volunteers with his family to clear trails at local parks.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Let’s get the kids young, huh?
My husband works for the public transportation system in our city. We don’t like public transportation, we don’t take public transportation, and we don’t want public transportation. To heck with public transportation.
and this little tree hugger will be voting in a few years.
God help us all.
The kid’s brainwashed.
A budding wingnut. His parents must be so proud.
I wonder how much “help” he got from his activist parents.
THIRD GRADE.
Methinks this kids parents didn't beat him nearly enough.
This proves that the average mental age of the typical liberal is 9 years old. This youngster has a chance to do what most liberals cannot achieve - outgrow this erronious mindset.
Is this about one of those little life-like robots the Japanese have developed?
LOL. I thought environmentalists were at the 3-year-old level. :-)
Hey, kid, the new buses for the transportation system that my husband works at costs from $800,000 to $1,000,000 each. Have the cash?
I wonder if the idealistic little geek has ever ridden a bus on a 110 degree day with 90% humidity.
I doubt it, if he had he wouldn’t be so idealistic about busses any more.
Funny how the idealism of youth surrenders to the wisdom of age.
Hey Kid, It will not be the Carbon Footprint that gets people on the Bus but rather the price of Gas.
At $4.00 a gallon more people have begun taking the bus.
At $5.00 a gallon even more people will stop driving their car and take they bus.
At $10.00 a gallon almost everyone will be taking the bus.
As for me, I have been riding my bike to work since gas was $1.25 a gallon!
Brainwashing is the right word for it.
Someone needs to show this brainwashed tyke what windmills do to the precious little birdies...
Hey Kevin, let's all tell each other what to do. For example, why don't you lower your 'carbon footprint' by only using transportation for necessary things like work, the store, the doctor, etc.
I'm sure that the bus doesn't go to all of your park and 'green' outings so OOPS there goes your fun. No video games either.
Soon he'll be ratting out his friends and family to the Eco-Polizei.
I don't either, but our Kremlin/gov't wants you on it. They like dependence, not independence. Keeps us under their thumb.
I was going to post the very same thing. This happens so often.
Great minds think alike. LOL
Adding my 2¢ anyway.
Although it is good to be conservative and do what you can as an individual
to help keep the earth as clean as “you’ can, this is just another CONTROL thing.
Democrats = Control Freaks, Bigger Government, More Welfare and Social Programs that will turn us into a cesspool just like Britain and England.
And I might add, a new religion even if you don’t want one.
Poor child been watching to many Al Gore cartoons.
There are two things good about public transportation: (1) My husband retiring at the age of 49 with 31 years of service and (2) his PERS check. Other than that...
It’s funny how public transportation is supposed to be so great. Those buses are the stinkiest things around. Breathing is a nightmare when you’re stuck driving behind one!
“This youngster has a chance to do what most liberals cannot achieve - outgrow this erronious mindset”
If you believe that you’re as sick as this kid!
It’s been proven that what you are taught between the ages opf 3 an 7 you will revert back to.
That’s why government wants to get every ki into pre school.
The kid's too young to think of these things by himself. I blame the parents - and perhaps they're the ones who lacked your prescription.
The public transportation system that my husband works for will be having two sets of layoffs and a reduction in service soon. They are millions in the hole.
Liberal hypocrisy, as usual.
Oh, I forgot, while increasing fares.
Wait until he discovers boobies.
It is sickening to see our 8 year olds being brainwashed in this way. He’s simply regurgitating the lies he’s been fed. Too bad he doesn’t have parents with the chutzpah or intellect to teach their child the truth.
“PERS check”
What is it??
I wasn’t schooled in alphabet soup.
Oh Kevin?
Shut up ya little twerp, you don’t know jacksh*t, all you know is what your local tree-hugging communistic environmental-wackos have been pouring into your now-polluted and deluded mind.
The birds are going to die, the trees are going to eventually become a hazard to life and limb, and it will be all your fault. Why? Because we humans are the biggest threat to the environment, isn’t that what they’re telling you, and me, and everyone else 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Kid, you don’t know a fraction of what you DON’T know.
I was recently at a mall. School kids made large globes out of paper. They actually were very, very nice. One globe had the following signs on them: “NO HUNTING” and “NO FISHING.” What are they teaching our children?
PERS = Public Employee Retirement System
“Nine-year-old Kevin Huo of Foster City did it because he wants to help save the world.
“I had to get my message out to everyone so they’d understand that this Earth is getting sick,” Huo says. “I want everyone to understand that they should ride the bus and lower their carbon footprints.”
Kevin you are a cute kid. Bur Marxism is a very bad thing. Marxists have killed millions of people over the decades; many more than the Nazis killed.
When you grow up and get a job; you will turn much more conservative when you see how much of your paycheck goes to support broken government programs.
It won’t be late to turn away from your childlike leftist ideology.
Kevin, we will be rooting for you, and for our great nation.
And after reading this article excerpt, I am officially sick of you, kid.
I'm sure THAT will come in handy after a nuclear war /s.
There's your problem, YOU were stuck DRIVING behind one!
Hold on one second.
beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep......(hand over telephone mouth piece) hello, green police? yeah, Lijahsbubbe has been driving, instaed of riding the bus. I have documentation right here. Go arrest him/her right now.
LOL. I think you're onto something with the 'green police'. Don't let the liberals see that idea!
Lok kid, we all went through that exercise in the 70s and it is warmed over garbage to us at this point Tell your brainwashed elementary school teacher that and see what reaction you get.
Green police or brown shirts?
Several years ago, an elementary school here in southern NH had the little kids put on a mock trial as part of their “Environmental Science” class. They put the human race on trial for crimes against the environment!
It might have been the same school that did the Saudi Night last year...
Good point. Same thing, different color. It eases the transition.
They’re both earth tones though, so they seem less threatening.
Like an 8 year old is going to say “not in vogue until nowâ€.
Oh, good God. What are they teaching our children? That’s just...
COMMIES!
That is why the gov’t “education” system belongs in the trash.
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