2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSooooo.... I was listening to a bit of Diane Rehm this morning,
and apparently some people are pushing the idea of toll roads, possibly/probably sold to private firms to run. This is because there is no way we'll ever raise the gas tax. ( ) The fact that the Highway trust fund was looted was passed over very quickly.
So, I'm thinking of what Elizabeth Warren said:
There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Instead of raising taxes on the general public, maybe it's time to raise the income tax on the people making all the money off good roads?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)We had that single unbiased source of information that was NPR. Now they have undermined it. The FAR RIGHT® cannot play fair. If they play fair they lose every time.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)liberalism and Progressivism a very long time ago.
I recall back in 1992 Cokie Roberts opining with great confidence that there was no way on god's green earth (well, maybe she didn't use that exact phrase but the sentiment was there) that Bill Clinton would ever get the nomination or win the election.
I was rather puzzled at the time, but over the years more and more of this kind of thing kept happening. I suppose it's because by the early 90's those people we were listening to had begun to move within the circles of power, and most of them were firmly ensconced inside the Beltway.
Diane Rehm has always had a somewhat conservative slant, and she doesn't always listen very carefully to what her guests are saying.
Terry Gross, who rarely deals directly with political issues, truly is a breath of fresh air.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Heck, I shook his hand.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)on any of our NPR or community radio stations. Too bad.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is a gem!
Prairie House Companion, I am sincerely going to miss.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Probably don't worry. They will play re-runs for the next 20 years and save money. Just like they are doing with Car Talk.
I can't wait to learn what might be wrong with my 1972 Datsun.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)I don't care what her voter registration may be out of family loyalty.
She even criticized Obama for going to visit his dying grandmother in Hawaii.
FSogol
(45,470 posts)show is sometimes mindboggling. She's been phoning in her preparation for shows for years now. Kojo would be better in her spot.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Parks, water and sewer treatment facilities, power plants, office buildings and - coming soon - the freshman class of elected government "representatives".
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)figures.
NPR. Just put a FOX news sign out front and be done with it. Lying, traitorous bastards.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Privatization Watch:
http://www.privatizationwatch.org/
Scary. VERY scary.
calimary
(81,192 posts)Knowledge is power. And the more we know, the better armed and better prepared we can be.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Yeah, yeah, I know. The DLC doesn't exist anymore.
Technically.
quarbis
(314 posts)The money been spent and the company filed for bankruptcy and the road is deteriorating with no one to fix it. We are stuck with the bills.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)as a good thing.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)With it, the investors and bond holders lost. The taxpayers didn't lose a penny.
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)In the morning. This gives me all I need to know about their sharp right turn over the past few years which keeps getting more and more extreme.
What bothers me most though is that I find myself arguing with some of my liberal friends who still think NPR is "fair and balanced".
Hey! Where did I hear that before?