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Use of cars can help families reduce poverty, large study finds
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| 4-4-14
| Emily Badger
Posted on 04/08/2014 4:41:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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But cars are evil planet-killing death machines! Trains will solved all our "sprawl" problems.
To: TurboZamboni
Every boy since the invention of the infernal combustion engine was invented knew this and used it to wheedle a car into his possession.
Girls were happy to ride with us until they got uppity and wanted their own.
Is this a study that actually got paid to determine?
I'm in the wrong business.
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posted on
04/08/2014 4:49:05 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: TurboZamboni
I check out the “Jobs” section on craigslist from time to time. One of thing that is prominent in the ads is “reliable transportation”.
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posted on
04/08/2014 4:56:26 AM PDT
by
MCF
To: TurboZamboni
problem is, WE will be the ones that have to pony up for the cars, insurance, tags, inspections and maintenance of said cars for the
poor...
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posted on
04/08/2014 4:58:17 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: TurboZamboni
This means they probably want to give the poor “Obamacars” next.
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posted on
04/08/2014 4:58:44 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
04/08/2014 4:59:29 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
To: TurboZamboni
Several crucial differences emerged between families that had access to a car and those that did not. The families with cars moved to neighborhoods with less poverty and were more likely to stay there. They lived in neighborhoods with less unemployment, higher median rents, more access to green space and lower levels of cancer risk. By the end of the government's survey, these families also lived in neighborhoods with better-performing schools.They are describing suburbia - lefties hate suburbia. Unless, as it seems, they believe that the populations should be switched.
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posted on
04/08/2014 4:59:39 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
To: MCF
I guess they don’t hire GM owners.
To: TurboZamboni
But, for the ‘poor’ now, personal mobility is a right. Just like TANF, SNAP, WICs, Section 8, ObamaPhone, UIC, EITC and all the other forms of welfare and private charity.
When it is THEM that gets, who the hell cares about the environment. The few (growing larger everyday), the chosen, the defiantly demanding entitled. Nothing else matters.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:01:09 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: knarf
It also could be interpreted to mean moving people to a “good neighborhood” doesn’t unlock the benefits unless you can drive to the jobs, civic activities, schools, etc. Just putting them in a middle class house doesn’t make them members of the mobile, spread out community.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:06:52 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: TurboZamboni
Bikes! Always cracks me up. Uppity smug academics who watch old “films” are obsessed with images of the european proletariat pedaling to town ringing their little bicycle bells. How romantic. How superior.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:08:36 AM PDT
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
To: TurboZamboni
Obama cars coming soon! Having a car is a basic right, just like a phone and healthcare! /s
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:09:10 AM PDT
by
Mich Patriot
(PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
“This means they probably want to give the poor Obamacars next.”
For sure. Add it to the “free stuff” list.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:11:12 AM PDT
by
snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
To: TurboZamboni
Now a car will become a constitutional right, just like cable tv and an obamaphone.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:13:42 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: IronJack
“Poor people don’t need gas. They don’t drive’”
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:24:11 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: TurboZamboni
More research money spent to prove something blatantly obvious. Up next.... $5M to prove water is wet.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:28:11 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
To: Aevery_Freeman
They are describing suburbia - lefties hate suburbia. Unless, as it seems, they believe that the populations should be switched.The lefties really DO hate those safe, clean, well-armed, Republican, low tax suburban and rural areas!
The population switch experiment has already been demonstrated by the French.
In France, the cities may be the preferred choice for the wealthy live and the suburbs are where the poor and minorities tend to live.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/french-intifada-arab-banlieues-fighting-french-state-extract
"Poor" households in the US have more cars than middle-class households almost everywhere on the planet. Poverty in the United States in 2014 doesn't have much (if anything) to do with money.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:28:23 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: TurboZamboni
I suggest that people here take SCREEN SHOTS of this article...it will not be posted very long.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:34:32 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: catfish1957
It's been proven over and over that in most places with light rail built to “serve the poor” that it would be more cost effective to buy them all a new car.
Not that I suggest doing this-no stake or pride in ownership= no maintenance or upkeep.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:35:02 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
To: TurboZamboni
I’ve got a great idea, I call it “cash for clunkers”.
Let’s offer people that are wealthy enough to buy a new car cash for their good reliable used car.
We’ll take the good reliable used car, turn it into junk and deny people that can’t afford a new car good reliable used cars for transportation to work.
We’ll drive the price of used cars, even cars that really are pretty much junk, through the roof and make them so expensive people can’t afford to get good reliable cheap transportation to work.
Since these people won’t have any way to get to work they will get on the govt dole and vote democrat.
Gosh I’m smart.
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posted on
04/08/2014 5:38:30 AM PDT
by
IMR 4350
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