As I read about Obama's choices and look at all of the public debate about his options (it was nice to see that even Washington Week in Review found his old guard, quintessential establishment choices notable) I just keep thinking the same three things over again. The things that I keep saying here.
1.) We should be buying all of our rail rights of way, widening them, and adding more tracks.
2.) Aid to auto companies should be designed to encourage and aid the spinoff of divisions, manufacturing plants, and other subsets as employee-owned companies.
and 3.) Every possible dollar, EVERY possible dollar should be routed to funding a fast track plan to specify, legally enable, and fund the massive purchase of small, light-duty streetcars with modular components, open source specs to ease repair and aftermarket modification, and a purchase price of $150,000.
If we do these things we will route around much of our current economic disaster, spur amazing and eventually very lucrative invention and development, and become a better country. It really is that simple.
I swear by the blood of Thomas Jefferson that part of me just wants to print up one page explanations of this and spend the next few years doing nothing but traveling America wheatpasting hundreds of thousands of these summaries on every lamppost, bulletin board, and transit shelter in America.
-Rustin
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