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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (351056)9/19/2007 2:34:11 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1573587
 
However, several events transpired to bring the accusations against General Motors back
to the publicÕs attention. In 1956, the federal government passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act,
ushering in four decades of Interstate highway building. Meanwhile, by the 1960s, urban
coalitions were demanding that attention be paid to the multitude of crises sweeping the nationÕs
cities. Choked by traffic congestion and mired in racism, poverty, and despair, urban areas were
losing their economic competitiveness to the expanding suburbs. Urban mayors appealed to the
federal government for specifically urban responses.

Choked in traffic? LMAO! By today's standards, traffic in the 1950s was a breeze. The interstate system was set up to encourage the development of the suburbs. Americans traditionally have not liked their cities. That's why the suburbs were so appealing. Of course, that's changing now.

Yes, Tim, its all true......GM dismantled the light rail systems in American cities to encourage the use of buses and the buying of cars, and then it bought up the bus companies and sold them back to cities so that it could control everything. This is the same near sighted GM we see today that recently got bumped as the largest car maker in the world.

Now American cities are having to build new light rail systems as well as subways at a cost of billions of dollars so they can join the rest of the world's modern cities. Many of those same cities had light rail and subways sixty years ago before GM came along. How much you want to bet their is a Republican behind the GM travesty?
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