PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION mess VS MASS TRANSIT solutions It's the next Public School-level-bottomless-mega-bureau on the horizon, and the Democrat/union/media cabal referred heretofore in this blog as THE SOLUTIONISTS™ are licking their chops at what they see as their last great hope for expansion.

Why are the SOLUTIONISTS in a mad rush to bring the "Public Transportation" issue to the fore? Because two former "growth industries" for their anti-capitalist power-base are losing traction:

First, Al Gore and his alarmist/solutionist buddies are finally being rightfully refuted by REAL SCIENCE, so there is a groundswell of support for such issues as new domestic oil drilling (the damned Washington Post even says it's time to start drillin'.)

Second, vouchers and privately operated schools have gotten their noses under the tent of the Soviet-style U.S. educational racket that has traditionally been a dead-solid lock. Leaders like Arnold S., flying in the face of protocol and armed with perceived political capital, even dared to rattle a sword at the edu-crats before getting clobbered by their well-funded (with your dough) media campaigns. And "right-wing extremists" (people who are sick of their kids getting a shitty, over-priced education combined with socialist indoctrination) are shouted down by the multi-million dollar "What about the children?" disinformation campaigns that never fail to mobilize the Oprah-ites toward a bureaucratic draft.

But, there is a change in the air, and the elitists don't like the smell of it. The SOLUTIONISTS are having to spend a substantial chunk of their ill-gotten treasure on propaganda campaigns simply in order to hold their ground, and they see trouble. Looks like alternative media outlets are upping the disinformation price.
THE SOLUTIONISTS are worried—and they need something new to PROBLEMATE. They think they have found perfect populist storm from which to create their newest campaign—and the upside for them is a doozey. It is called "Public Transportation." Don't confuse this with mass transit. Mass transit is to Public Transportation as "retirement investment" is to "Social Security."

And they are already pursuing their new power enclave which, if they are successful, will take some poor future American generation at least fifty years to undo, like all this stupid FDR bullshit we are JUST NOW chipping away at. You may have heard the recent "underwriter" of public radio stations across the country referred to as "publictransportation.org." Don't be surprised if you never hear the term "mass transit" again. At least not on NPR, CBS, NBC, or in any large metropolitan daily. That's right—those people who brought you our educational system, affirmative action and the Social Security system have found their next "problem" to "solutionize" with their boundless magnanimity, and they have to hurry before the free market beats them to it. Because that would be capitalism, which is evil and selfish.

They have to use their normal method of having the "government" rush in before it's "too late" and the capitalist marketplace is allowed to work: EMOTE, EXAGGERATE, BLAME, AND DEMAND. Watch the "outcry" for more efficiency, safety and environmental responsibility combine with the "outcry" about the "criminal profits" being made by the evil oil companies. This is a POPULIST PERFECT STORM, and the bad guys are plotting their power expansion in one of the very few growth areas still available to them...public employees unions. Don't be fooled by this latest attempt to grab for the politboro what should be a free market opportunity.

By the way...would you prefer a future of shared, GPS-managed limos gliding across town operated by innovative, competitive small businesses, or a bumpy ride on a slow, grimy, tuberculin city bus driven by an un-firable aristocrat? If you said limo...I hope you get it, because you'll deserve it. After all, because just as with private and public education, you'll be the one who winds up getting soaked for BOTH! That'll teach Exxon/Mobil!  ¶ 6:29 PM