Posted on 05/28/2013 9:51:48 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
The language of budget cuts, austerity, and sequestration seem to dominate the media's landscape these days, instilling fear into Americans of vital government services being cut and chaos ensuing if governments aren't allowed to spend and borrow infinitely. Conservatives decry supposed cuts to the military-industrial-complex, and liberals bemoan that without government welfare transfer programs, there would be social Darwinism. ... Leaving aside the details on whether the U.S. budget is actually shrinking, one needs to look no further than the city of Detroit to find the spontaneous order, civic cooperation, and peaceful market forces that take over when government simply isn't around. ..... The Detroit Bus Company (DBC) is a private bus service that began last year and truly shows a stark contrast in how the market and government operates. Founded by 25-year-old Andy Didorosi, the company avoids the traditionally stuffy, cagey government buses and uses beautiful vehicles with graffiti-laden exterior designs that match the heart of the Motor City. There are no standard bus routes; a live-tracking app, a call or a text is all you need to get picked up in one of their buses run on soy-based biofuel. All the buses feature wi-fi, music, and you can even drink your own alcohol on board! The payment system is, of course, far cheaper and fairer.
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I mentioned their MI having Right to work in the very same post.... might want to finish reading the post.
The Detroit Bus Company (DBC) is a private bus service that began last year and truly shows a stark contrast in how the market and government operates. Founded by 25-year-old Andy Didorosi, the company avoids the traditionally stuffy, cagey government buses and uses beautiful vehicles with graffiti-laden exterior designs that match the heart of the Motor City. There are no standard bus routes; a live-tracking app, a call or a text is all you need to get picked up in one of their buses run on soy-based biofuel. All the buses feature wi-fi, music, and you can even drink your own alcohol on board! The payment system is, of course, far cheaper and fairer.Soy-based biofuel?
I was wondering if anyone else would notice the error of substituting that for who. Journalists for the most famous of news companies do it. So do many highly educated celebrities.
Awesome. In Illinois, by law, not private bus company can compete with the CTA or RTA. Even when they drop routes it is illegal to pick those routes up privately.
We’re decades behind Michigan and there’s little hope we’ll catch up, ever. We’re America’s North Korea.
I know the Detroit bus company isn’t getting taxpayer dollars. They wouldn’t be advertizing that its OK to drink on their buses.
Private neighborhood security is another business that is growing in Detroit.
The old complaint about the word “decimate” comes up often here. But the English language is a living one, it’s not Latin. The meaning of words and conventions change over time. “Font” and “typeface” were not the same thing originally, but they’re used interchangibly today. A “logo” and a “trademark” were different but now pretty much mean the same. “Lynchpin,” “ Vellum,” “Triumph” all had specific meanings that, like “decimate,” have morphed over time. Likewise, in 1933 “tomorrow” was spelled “to-morrow.”
Not sure I agree. Logo and trademark are definitely different things and I think should be viewed as such. Personally, rather than see words “morphed”, I’d rather keep the old words preserved as they were originally, and have new words developed as needed.
It's a good thing English is so flexible. Let's not be like the French!
I heard somewhere that private citizens were paying for police cars, and, get this -
libs were complaining that they shouldn’t be allowed to do that because police cars were a government function.
“After all, they aren’t spending a billion dollars for a new bridge to Detroit just because they want to spend money.”
Sure they are. If they just wanted to build a bridge, it would cost far, far less than a cool $billion.
They are spending a $Billion because the unions and government bureaucrats are involved. So yes, they are building a bridge just because they want to spend money, and they want to be able to levy taxes to support union toll collectors and government bureaucracy.
Yeah sure, they’ll throw a bridge in too, but that is not the primary reason they are building it.
And today the spelling of tomorrow and all other words depends upon the mood of my keyboard.
to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
which tells me that is the definition of decimate. It is the third acceptable use of the word that widens its definition.
The same dictionary defines triumph as you have indicated, so all of us should avoid using the word incorrectly. I'm going to try and restrict my usage to the list of synonyms they suggest. Thanks for pointing that out to me!
I’ll have to disagree with you on this. What we have done is not so much change the meanings of words but to ignore the nuanced differences of different words’ meanings. Odor, smell, fragrance and stench are all pretty close in meaning in some respects, but obviously (to most people, at least for now) are not interchangeable.
In that case you’d better not use Microsoft Office, nor any word processing program for that matter, that allows you to change fonts, since a font is “type produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry.”
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