[lbo-talk] Suburban revolt against Obama?

[Carrol Cox]

I think Dwayne here describes the danger of Obama's fake health program.
It will discedit any real halth program for a decade, just as Clinton's
did. And this fits a pattern that beame established in the late '30s:
starve or disrupt government programs (e.g. Amtrak or the Post Office)
so that their lousy service will be come an argument for privatization.

I haven't read the whole article, but on large elment of the original
flight to the suburgbs was a flight from Black people. I don't know 
whether this is relevant to this thread ornot.

Carrol

Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> 
> Responding to James' recommendation of
> <http://www.newgeography.com/content/001364-the-war-against-suburbia>
> Doug wrote:
> 
> Fuck the climate, I wanna drive everywhere!
> 
> .......
> 
> It's no accident, I think, that James -- the author of Let's Build:
> 
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lets-Build-Million-Homes-Years/dp/0955383005>
> 
> and a climate change skeptic would be attracted to the New Geography
> essayist's argument.
> 
> While useless as a description of the American scene, the article
> *does* provide us with yet another example of an interesting trend:
> criticisms of the Obama administration which are based upon a belief
> that it's something it's not: i.e. radically different.  (See, for
> example, the tea partiers.)
> 
> Mr. Kotkin repeatedly deploys the hyperventilating phrase, "war on
> suburbia" (coming soon to a tv talking head, shouty blog and radio
> chat show near you) using as examples of this brutal struggle a few
> tepid policy and budget mods for rail upgrades and supposedly suburbs
> shattering 'green' initiatives (nicely dissected by Doug in this
> thread).
> 
> This puts those of us interested in accuracy in an odd position:
> setting the record straight, not to support Washington but to
> re-adjust arrows towards actually existing targets.
> 
> .d.
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