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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">No car-hating is a reactionary emotion. It is a sublimated form of anti-
<BR>working class prejudice.
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<BR>Give us a bloody break.
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<BR>Cars are a means of individual transportation. They are necessary and serve a
<BR>useful social purpose in certain contexts. But too often, we end up using
<BR>them, at least in the US, because public transportation which could be more
<BR>economic, less environmentally damaging and quicker, is underdeveloped. If LM
<BR>didn't fetishize individual consumption in its pseudo-libertarian world view,
<BR>this would be readily apparent.
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<BR>All one need do is compare the NYC and Washington DC subway systems to see
<BR>how much NYC lacks in this regard. And it makes absolutely no sense that we
<BR>have overcrowded airports which move people up and down the east coast on a
<BR>daily commutation basis, when a decent high speed public train system could
<BR>do it much better. It is part of the irrationality of American capitalism
<BR>that it does not happen, and that we subsidize roads and airports with
<BR>extraordinary amounts of public money, but put virtually none into trains.
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Avenue South
<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
<BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
<BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --
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