Comments on: Transit Cuts Report Underscores Cities’ Congressional Influence

By: Modern Ankh

Modern Ankh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:00:10 +0000

Are we getting the idea yet?, democracy is a BIG FAT WHITE LIE. Americans MUST take back their power. As to why Americans don’t see that a ‘vote’ is nothing but a pure psychological LIE. America…PLEASE look in the mirror…there is no democracy other than the one YOU claim back!

This is a nation which still claims America was discovered by European settlers (um…PBS)…PLEASE!, America was stolen by the edge of the White sword just like politicians are doing right now to each and every one of us. The media are nothing but sell out cowards who work for the dollar that the royal chamber pays them.

CLAIM YOUR AMERICAN FREEDOM!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:39:12 +0000

huh? Isn’t it fairly obvious that under almost any system of cuts, service would be cut most in places where there is the most service to start with — i.e., largely in major cities and along the coasts? I’m not entirely sure that the T4A map shows much of anything at all.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:19:12 +0000

“Still, T4A’s picture of cutbacks brilliantly illustrates where transit’s congressional constituency should be leaping to its aid — the question is what it would take to make that happen.”

Health care reform is the best shot, but no one is taking advantage.

Have the federal government take health care costs away from the states, by picking up the full cost of Medicaid for example, or some of the cost of state and local government retirees. Fund it by eliminating federal transport spending, and perhaps housing spending and subsidies.

This will nationalize government involvement in health care, which makes sense because the sick and those seeking to avoid paying for the cost of their care can move between states.

It will localize transportation and housing decisions, which makes sense because infrastructure and buildings do not move, and different places have different physical characteristics.