Get A Horse!

photo: Tiddlycove in FrEAKING NEWS

Having spent some time in Toronto, I come back very appreciative of the public transport system and the Ukrainian area called West Bloor Village. If we leave aside bakeries of unparalleled cleanliness with sweets lining the windows as if in some Photo Shop extraganza, we shall deal with transportation alone. If we ignore the world's best cream cheese at Daiter's Deli, we shall deal with buses and subways and trains. Yes, trains! There is real transport for people, just as it would be if people and their concerns actually mattered! Really. That is something the USA does not have. Amtrak has to beg like Lazarus at the Dives' Table of Congress, Amtrak is told to go fly a kite and generate a profit. ...Just like the highway system......!!!!!!!

Real capitalism.

Highways get lots of pork. Calculate how much the federal and local governments throw at the highway system. Real US of A capitalism has give-aways for everyone, except the poor and the trains. It is part of the illusory dream of the Suburban Flight: cheap highways, cheap oil, and no people of color!