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   From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "Warm Worm"  wrote in message   
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   > Don wrote:   
   >> "Warm Worm"  wrote in message   
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   >>> Don wrote:   
   >>>> "Jack May"> wrote   
   >>>>> Just because some people can't afford a car IN NO WAY implies that   
   >>>>> public transit is the solution.  There are other options that are far   
   >>>>> cheaper like transportation subsidies for the poor.   
   >>>> OK, I just let the dogs loose.  =D   
   >>>> I think you hit it right there Jack, and I've said so myself in the   
   >>>> past.   
   >>>> The people that bitch the loudest about cars are not car owners   
   >>>> themselves, for whatever reason, most likely economics.   
   >>>> This is based in envy, an emotion, with no logic at its root.   
   >>> This seems to be like hearing someone boasting about how envious others   
   >>> are of his pile of shit.   
   >>   
   >> Actually, its like someone exclaiming his jealousy of someone elses pile   
   >> of shit.   
   >> Like watching a train wreck, in slow motion.   
   >   
   > I would be reluctant to put too much stock on some people's ill-conceived   
   > jealousies, such as if they somehow represented everyone's, or as if the   
   > piles of shit weren't nevertheless still piles of shit.   
      
      
      
   Everything is a pile of shit, when you don't own one.   
      
      
      
      
   >>> Whether it's affordable or not, it's still a pile of shit.   
   >>> You'd have to pay me to buy it-- but even then...   
   >>   
   >> Indeed, a pile of shit is what it is, the amazing part is that some are   
   >> jealous of it.   
   >> Go figure.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>> If, as Pat said, all the cities burned down these folks would starve or   
   >>>> be killed because they wouldn't be able to go *where the food is* or   
   >>>> escape danger.   
   >>> Hoho... If that happened, I'd grab a chair, a cold one, and from a safe   
   >>> vantage point, watch what happens to your new 100-acre land-grab.   
   >>   
   >> I doubt anyone would want the land itself for in the immediate picture it   
   >> would be worthless.   
   >> They might however be interested in the, yet unbuilt, greehouse jammed to   
   >> the ceiling with succulent vegetables and fruits.   
   >> They can have it, and if they can maneuver the trip wires they might eat   
   >> well for a few weeks.   
   >   
   > Trip wires, or guns for that matter, are going to be relatively   
   > ineffective at controlling a famished city explosion, and may even   
   > precipitate the consideration of roasting you.   
   > If you're sharp enough to gauge the situation as its unfolding, and   
   > accommodating enough, however, (all very theoretical of course), you may   
   > be able to leverage the situation in everyone's favor-- especially your   
   > own-- and help forge a new town and way of life.   
   >   
   >> In the meantime, I'll be sitting on the front porch with a cooler of cold   
   >> ones and a Remington Model 7 with a Leupold 6x9 variable picking them off   
   >> like flys with 240 grain FMJ's.   
   >   
   > Oh dear...   
   > Meanwhile, some will chance upon my vantage point, wondering where all   
   > those shots are coming from, pump me for info and rip my nigh-vision   
   > binoculars from my hands and... Well you can guess who's eventually gonna   
   > be roasted from beard-to-tail on "his own" 100-acre land.   
      
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