Ride a bicycle? Now there’s a bulls-eye on YOUR back!
Whenever I run into one of the knee-jerk conservative ideologues who goes bonkers at the very idea of a federal subsidy for Amtrak, my standard response is, “But in a modern civilized society, all public transportation is subsidized, from the airlines to bike lanes and sidewalks.” (In fact, see previous post!)
Well, now one of the chief crazies, United States Senator Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma, is proposing that we eliminate federal monies used to build bike paths and sidewalks. Yes … really!
Just when you think we may have finally hit bottom, some damn fool like Coburn starts digging again.
