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["Michele May" <mmay.lmft@cox.net>]

I have not forgotten how industrialists undermined the public transportation system in early New York.  We could do better, now, then and in the future  We had cut throat industries buying influence to keep their pockets, and their children’s pockets full.  They promote(d) large scale production and its inevitable waste. Too many people buy into it saying it creates jobs.  What jobs now, everything is moving overseas thanks to bipartisan support over the years for new trade rules.  Industry pollution and what no EPA Superfund to clean it up….which drives me crazy, when the industries (corporate persons, as in corporate personhood) fail to take responsibility for their waste and place politicians in office who disempower the people, while receiving corporate payouts or quickly return to their previous corp jobs once “public service” is over. 

 

So many dreams come around as nightmares now for the all Americans, not just the politicians who ignorantly and greedily acted as patsies to industry.  

 

What about the average citizen who buys into the “American Dream?”

The land of plenty is now the land of plenty of unhappy people!

 

What can I say about a government that gives no bid contracts to corps who go offshore to avoid paying the American taxes?  I can just take my American Dream and dream about how that money could go to projects like public transportation and environmental clean-up.

 

My point is, there are considerably powerful and entrenched entities out there undermining what is in our best interests.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Johanna Huss Dowd
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:24 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: RE: [permaculture] Keeping your cool....

 

Marsha wrote:

 >> think I already mentioned the car-less Sundays in Switzerland in the 80s and how wonderful and fun they were... <<

 

Wasn't that in the 70's during the first big energy crisis? I remember going bycicling on the Autobahn. There was recently a discussion in Switzerland to permanently establish carfree days but it did not pass the public vote. But you have to remember that even back in those days public transportation there was a lot better then it is in the most parts of the US, it reached virtually every corner of the country.  In the meantime the public transportation system has vastly improved. Some big citys are developping innovative concepts, I.e. car sharing/public transportation packages, bycicles you can rent at every train station and lots more.

 

Johanna (Swiss expat now living in rural NJ and really missing public transportaion)