This will be a good decade for bicycling!

Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.

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"Every American government since Reagan has essentially been
consumed with the task of denuding the middle and working
classes of their paltry share of the national pie, in order to
deliver those dollars into the hands of wealthy political
benefactors." - David Michael Green

On 1/1/2010 2:26 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.


So you mean that everywhere will be as nice to ride as Detroit is?
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On Jan 1, 12:26*pm, Tom Sherman °_°
wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.

--

"Every American government since Reagan has essentially been
consumed with the task of denuding the middle and working
classes of their paltry share of the national pie, in order to
deliver those dollars into the hands of wealthy political
benefactors." - David Michael Green

As wealth concentrate even further, the bicycle will come to mean the
vehicle of proletarian struggle and a full blown revolution will
explode in the year 2017, celabrating the centenary of the Bolshevik
revolution.

The owners of SUVs will repent from their past and will be re-educated
with hard pedaling.

On Jan 1, 2:26*pm, Tom Sherman °_°
wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.

--

"Every American government since Reagan has essentially been
consumed with the task of denuding the middle and working
classes of their paltry share of the national pie, in order to
deliver those dollars into the hands of wealthy political
benefactors." - David Michael Green

I have no opinion on your political projections, Tom. They're probably
as good as the experts, which isn't saying much.

But living in Milwaukee, you ought to know that there's more than
politics standing in the way of mass bicycle commuting, such as cold,
rain, snow and ice, obesity and other symptoms of poor physical
fitness - even heat sometimes.

On Jan 1, 12:26 pm, Tom Sherman °_°
wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.


I agree that these circumstances exist and would tend to put bicycling
on the rise, but for real change in the USA something's gotta give:
$50 gas or no gas at all or... I don't know. People say this would
botch the economy,, but nature finds a way, and bicycles have a lot
going for them.

"We're heading for the day of reckoning. I'm tellin' ya! Its all
building up to something, something that can only be redeemed with
fire!"

On Jan 1, 9:00*pm, Dan O wrote:
On Jan 1, 12:26 pm, Tom Sherman °_°

wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.

I agree that these circumstances exist and would tend to put bicycling
on the rise, but for real change in the USA something's gotta give:
$50 gas or no gas at all or... I don't know. *People say this would
botch the economy,, but nature finds a way, and bicycles have a lot
going for them.

"We're heading for the day of reckoning. I'm tellin' ya! Its all
building up to something, something that can only be redeemed with
fire!"

I think first you have to topple capitalism...

But no gas at all, could be a good outcome.

"Tom Sherman °_°" wrote in message
...
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private motorized
transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road, and more
bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto serfs.

Mr. Sherman desires nothing better for mankind than the kind of society
which prevailed in the Soviet Union for most of my life. That is where full
out socialism (communism) will land you. I do not recall many bicycles ever
being ridden in the Soviet Union.

"Every American government since Reagan has essentially been
consumed with the task of denuding the middle and working
classes of their paltry share of the national pie, in order to
deliver those dollars into the hands of wealthy political
benefactors." - David Michael Green

I doubt that was ever the intention however it worked out. Capitalism
without some government regulation is impossible I must admit. But let us
never throw out the baby with the bath water. Follow Mr. Sherman and you
will end up living in a "communist paradise", i.e., the old Soviet Union.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

"Ron Wallenfang" wrote in message
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On Jan 1, 2:26 pm, Tom Sherman °_°
wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.

I have no opinion on your political projections, Tom. They're probably
as good as the experts, which isn't saying much.

But living in Milwaukee, you ought to know that there's more than
politics standing in the way of mass bicycle commuting, such as cold,
rain, snow and ice, obesity and other symptoms of poor physical
fitness - even heat sometimes.

Mr. Sherman has advised me in a previous post that he is now living in
Eastern Iowa (exactly where he didn't say). He probably thinks Iowa is
somehow less than Wisconsin, never realizing that Iowa is infinitely
superior to Wisconsin in everything but scenery. However, for a true
paradise on this earth, you must go to Minnesota where you will have the
privilege of freezing to death. As I write this, it is 20 degrees below
zero. Hells Bells, I cannot even go out of the house, let alone ride a
freaking bicycle.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

"DougC" wrote in message
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On 1/1/2010 2:26 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.


So you mean that everywhere will be as nice to ride as Detroit is?

Doug, although I know you are an idiot from previous posts, you also
approach sheer genius at times. Indeed, cycling is a proclivity of an elite,
but one not based on income. Americans will never resort to cycling to get
around. If they are as poor as church mice, they will either walk or take
public transportation.

Cycling only becomes a mass transportation thing in a society where it is
culturally ingrained such as it was in China of recent decades. The
socialist-communist serfs of the former Soviet Union never took to cycling
because it was not in their culture to do so and it most certainly is not in
the American culture ever to resort to cycling no matter how dire the
circumstances. Only a cultural elite ever gets into cycling. Very funny that
Mr. Sherman does not realize this very elementary fact of life.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

On 2 Jan, 11:04, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"DougC" wrote in message

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On 1/1/2010 2:26 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
Why you ask? As the plutocracy consolidates their power and wealth, the
existing and new working poor will not be able to afford private
motorized transportation. Therefore, fewer motor vehicles on the road,
and more bicycles ridden for transportation by the new class of de-facto
serfs.

So you mean that everywhere will be as nice to ride as Detroit is?

Doug, although I know you are an idiot from previous posts, you also
approach sheer genius at times. Indeed, cycling is a proclivity of an elite,
but one not based on income. Americans will never resort to cycling to get
around. If they are as poor as church mice, they will either walk or take
public transportation.

Cycling only becomes a mass transportation thing in a society where it is
culturally ingrained such as it was in China of recent decades. The
socialist-communist serfs of the former Soviet Union never took to cycling
because it was not in their culture to do so and it most certainly is not in
the American culture ever to resort to cycling no matter how dire the
circumstances. Only a cultural elite ever gets into cycling. Very funny that
Mr. Sherman does not realize this very elementary fact of life.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

I get the impression that most Yanks will only travel in great big gas-
guzzling V8 SUVs, even if it's only to go 100 yards down the road to
the nearest Burger Bar. That is why they do so much damage to the
planet and why so many of them are grossly overweight!

DC