>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Tough Driving
>> SUV owners: Park it - right now, before I hurt you
>>
>> By MARC COOPER
>>
>> Indeed, taking you with me is a sacred civic duty. As the
>> gaps between rich and poor widen, the gaps in income, in housing, in the
>> very political geography of this city, the allure of the Sport Utility
>> Vehicle grows ever stronger.
>
>While I don't mind seeing SUVs and their drivers pilloried, I think I do
>mind the kind of rhetoric that helps to conceal the comparisons Doug
>makes in the current LBO#94 on Wealth Distribution. The rich don't
>own SUVs -- they travel in limousines. And those with $100,000.00
>annual incomes are apt to be political supporters of the rich, they are
>not themselves rich and it really twists consciousness of social
>dynamics to pretend that they are.
Yeah, and I don't like his Impala very much either, but it's still a wonderful polemic. Marc's very good at this sort of thing.
Doug