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| Obama: "The days where we're just building sprawl forever, those days are over" |
| 2009-02-11 |
| To the ghettos wit yuz. President Obama was back on the road today to garner support for the economic stimulus package that passed the Senate early Tuesday morning. He was speaking today at a town hall forum in Ft. Myers, Florida, and near the end of his hour-long session, a city councilwoman asked him about transportation and infrastructure in the stimulus. Here's how he responded: It's imagining new transportation systems. I'd like to see high speed rail where it can be constructed. I would like for us to invest in mass transit because potentially that's energy efficient. And I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally... The days where we're just building sprawl forever, those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats, everybody... recognizes that's not a smart way to design communities. So we should be using this money to help spur this sort of innovative thinking when it comes to transportation. That will make a big difference. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #16 DMFD Your picture shows there's plenty of employment opportunities in "Community Organizing". Of course they'll need rapid transit. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-11 18:52 |
#15 High density, low-impact, egalitarian, sustainable Obamaville: |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-02-11 18:40 |
| #14 sprawl = construction work no sprawl = no work |
| Posted by: Elmusoting Tojo4877 2009-02-11 17:15 |
| #13 Bright Pebbles, we should be so fortunate that the notorious late sleeper should be awoken every 5AM. That building across the street is the KAM Isaiah Israel Temple. Fooled me the first time I saw it. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-11 15:52 |
#12 What the world should look like to a "Community Organizer". |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-11 14:22 |
| #11 Ask Boulder how well that worked. Prices jumped through the roof and almost all the building are crumbling and falling apart because they are "historic". Give Boulder another 20 years and people will be living in tents. Liberalism IS a cancer to the west. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-02-11 14:14 |
| #10 Saw my second 1-20-13 bumper sticker this AM. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-11 13:14 |
| #9 I'm already longing for the days when Obama bloviating is over. |
| Posted by: Cynicism Inc 2009-02-11 13:06 |
| #8 > The Obama estate. VERY Handy for the mosque, right within wail distance. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-02-11 12:53 |
| #7 The history of Chicago area suburban development can be summed up as 'running away from Democrats' In NE IL everytime the Dems took over a local government unit the taxes went through the roof. Businesses, industry, and people moved to more tax friendly areas, causing growth (or sprawl). And of course the Dems followed them, took over again and the people, businesses, and industry moved yet again... ad infinitum. Stopping sprawl is simple, stop Democrats. |
| Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Thromong2805 2009-02-11 11:25 |
| #6 With these bozos running the place we won't be building anything. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2009-02-11 11:09 |
| #5 The houses are too damned close together. Gimmie land, lotsa land. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-02-11 11:04 |
| #4 The Obama estate. Doesn't look like a fourth floor flat. Looks sprawly. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-11 10:37 |
| #3 Phueching bloody prophetic....water is also wet. NOBODY is building now, or likely to build anytime soon! Futurist, truth-sayer, economist, military expert, community disorganizer. I knew Wakan Tanka, and you're no bloody Wakan Tanka. (How did we make it so long without this Cook County genius?) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-02-11 10:30 |
| #2 Like keeping the thermostat at 72, Barry? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-11 10:29 |
| #1 There will be sprawl as long as humans keep reproducing. Unless he has a depopulation program in the Pork Package as well [unlikely with the effective repeal of welfare reform], somebody has to park their ass someplace. They get nasty when when you stack them up [excepting some circles in Hollyweird]. And depopulation usually hits urban centers hardest, the core of the Donk power base. More talk. More government. Less solutions. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-02-11 10:22 |