Posted on 04/19/2010 6:46:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
At a National Press Club event last year, a panel moderator decided to quiz Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood on his department's policy. "Some in the highway-supporters motorist groups have been concerned by your livability initiative," he said. "Is this an effort to make driving more torturous and to coerce people out of their cars?"
"It is a way to coerce people out of their cars," answered LaHood, with a blunt frankness rare for a politician.
These days, the Department of Transportation is sticking its nose into everyone's lives. DOT has teamed up with the Environmental Protection Agency and Housing and Urban Development to create the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. Their actual purpose is somewhat foggy and loaded with Orwellian language -- something about creating more "livable" and "healthy" environments. As transportation goes, that means creating more "choices" for commuters: the choice to leave your car at home and take the train, for example. Or ride your bike. Or walk.
It's an alarming fact that's eluded even many conservative commentators: The core of the president's progressive agenda is to fundamentally change in the way we move from one point to another.
American transportation is dominated by the car. According to a USA Today study, 91% of Americans drive to work. Another study by Experian Automotive found that an American household has an average of 2.28 cars in the garage. That's a dire crisis for a president who thinks the entire economy should "go green." With cap-and-trade having gone rigor mortis in Congress, the Obama Administration needed easier ways to create serious environmental change.
Enter the Department of Transportation.
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There should be (in addition to treason) a way to remove people from office for insanity or for ruining the country. When can we throw people in jail for their abuse of the country?
Is Ray the Hood going to coerce truckers out of their trucks, too? and bring in our food supplies by ox cart?
Feds vs. USA Government against the people..For the government and by the government...Disgusting.
Control, control, control. If the government controls your personal mobility, your access to health care, and maybe even requires you to get a license to sell your house through cap-and-trade, what else is left in the way of freedom? NOTHING!
AGENDA 21
I’m thinking Agenda 21 may be behind the drive to evacuate Michigan.
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Someone needs to remind Mr. Hodd that he is OUR servant and not the other way around.
Americans want to drive — his job is to make it easier for us to drive.
Of course starting with the PROFITABLE Toyota Motor Corporation.
Toyota and the Union-Backed, Government-Led Witch Hunt
http://biggovernment.com/brjohnson/2010/02/17/toyota-and-the-union-backed-government-led-witch-hunt/
Unless someone can show me in the Constitution where the fedgov is specifically granted the power to regulate modes of transportation.
Americans want to drive his job is to make it easier for us to driveUNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Unless someone can show me in the Constitution where the fedgov is specifically granted the power to regulate modes of transportation.
Considering some metropolitan areas have been forced to stop public transportation due to funding issues, this is going to hurt more people than they can imagine. Not that Obama cares.
By the way, this also goes to show how ignorant the politicians are in not grasping that all of America is a metropolis.
since we are full steam ahead building roads, bridges and infrastructure to get unemployment down and the economy turned around.
Here’s the deal, I will get out of my car and let someone else do the driving when:
The schedule fits my life
The route goes where I want it to go
The time it takes is the same, or less than when I drive
The seats are as comfortable as the ones in my vehicles
The driver will stop when I have a hankering for a snack, or drink on the way home.
The driver will stop at all the places I need to hit on the way home and wait for me until I am finished.
The owner of said transportation will ensure that I will not be subjected to the political views/life story of someone I may find totally undesirable.
My safety is guaranteed, with a HUGE monetary settlement guaranteed, if it isn’t
The list goes on.
Until the above can be satisfied, then Mr. laHOOD can keep his green shoots and skittles, lest he get run over trying to force them on me.
sfl
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Good point.
yet more evidence why the Republicans need a formal mechanism for drumming people out of the party. This guy needs to be one step behind Lindsay Graham and the Maine Sisters.
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