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To: TimF who wrote (150804)	9/3/2002 2:10:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586096

GM and the Red Cars................. This is a myth A brief version of why this is a myth is contained in a letter to the editor I wrote in the LA Times. Read for the full story. Tim, are you sure you want to use this guy as a source? He's a bit of a crackpot. Below is another of his letters to the editor re a move to Austin. In spite of statistics to the contrary, he says that Austin is not really a cheaper place to live than LA. Making his position even more bizzare is my own experience.........statistically, Seattle is not supposed to be cheaper than LA but it is. But the coup de gras is when he says Clinton could have gotten a lot more done had it not been for the Rep. party throwing temper tantrums. Now, D. Ray will assure you that this is a boldface lie and that the man must be a lunatic and not to be believed. As for the argument that GM's takeover of the Red Car was someone's personal drama and not the reality, let me just say that no conspiracy theory has only one key player.......in fact, by definition, conspiracy suggests more than one player. And there is no question that GM had help acquiring and dismantling the streetcar/trolley systems in the US. Their co-conspirator were shorted sited municipalities who insisted on keeping streetcar fares at low levels even in the face of inflationary pressures. That does not change the fact that GM screwed this country in an effort to sell more buses and cars. GM, like many large American corps, is a 'ho. ted ___________________________________________________________ Stan's Letters to the Times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've had several letters to the editor published in the Los Angeles Times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This first letter was published on June 3, 1996. It was in response to a columnist who told the story of some friends who were leaving Los Angeles to move to Austin, Texas: I had to chuckle when I read Peter King's column on May 29 about his friends who were leaving Los Angeles to move to Austin, Texas. We left Los Angeles to move there, back in 1991. It was a bitter disappointment. The "lower cost of living" was an illusion. Being trapped indoors by the climate was awful. Realizing that my 12-mile commute there took just as long as it did here was the final straw. We moved back last year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This letter was published on October 22, 2000. It was written after the third debate of the 2000 Presidential campaign: Regarding the "broken promises" of the Clinton years: It seems that the Clinton administration could have gotten a lot more work done if it were not for the Republicans kicking, screaming and throwing an eight-year temper tantrum because President George Bush lost in '92. The Republican Party needs to be sent to bed without dinner.