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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Kitchen-Table Issues: As the Feds Bail Out Wall Street, Here's a Food-Related Fix for Main Street
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:21:57 -0400

At 11:09 AM 3/29/2008, you wrote:

That's imbecilic. In the context of early 21st century U.S. politics, gutting harmful biofuel subsidies, reinvesting in local food, and rebuilding the public-transit system count as radical ideas. They're almost completely iced out of the national debate, even during a highly contested presidential election. Meanwhile, heroic and pricy efforts to bail out Wall Street seem, for some reason, are perfectly natural.

When I first moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1975, there was talk of a light rail system between Norfolk and the waterfront. Year after year someone would bring it up, and year after year the idea was laughed off, or at least tabled. Year after year, the two cities spent millions of dollars building new highways and widening existing streets, and the traffic grew exponentially, it felt like. Now they finally seem to have gotten the message (that many of us were saying all along), that creating new roads just creates more traffic, and they are finally talking seriously about a light rail system.

Sometime in the future. Maybe. Sigh.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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