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Tom Kunich
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> Tom Kunich Wrote:
>> So those who do - such as 90% of those living in the bay area who live
>> more than 15 miles from work should suffer because you believe that
>> they ought to commute on bicycles?
>
> Tom, learn to read. I said "I ride to work". I did not say "everyone
> should ride to work". However, the more people the do, the better. For
> health, for reducing pollution, for reducing congestion on roads, for
> making the dwindling supplies of petrol last longer etc. Public
> transport is another good option too.
I wonder if you live in California? Same with Ben.
You people don't seem to have any idea of what it's like here. In 40 years
of working, I've worked closer than 15 miles from home for a total of 5
years. Most of the time my commute has been more than 25 miles and for about
5 years I worked more than 30 miles from home.
Today essentially EVERYONE in the bay area works 20 miles or more from work.
Public transportation has worked for me for a total of 6 years.
And aside from the stupidity implicit in Ben's postings, job growth in
California is stagnating. If you cut out all the jobs in the "service
industry" (always have a job as long as you can work a slurpy machine)
California has been losing jobs and businesses for 10 years now and it is
beginning to show. Electronics, mechanical engineering, biotech firms are
all leaving this state to find someplace that is a little more business
friendly. Many are simply moving out of the country.
One of the places I worked was in Berkeley and a city inspector came in and
threatened to close the place down for having toxic chemicals on site. The
toxic chemicals were - TWO UNOPENED CANS OF MOTOR OIL to lube the machines
in the machine shop.
Berkeley used to be the hub of electronics and biotech and they legislated
all of those businesses right out of town. It mostly moved out onto the
peninsula and was being fed by graduates from Stanford but then the towns
over there began taxing innovative businesses out of the area there as well.
Finally the state government got in on it and now even the huge business
boom in San Diego is moving across the border to get away from the socialist
pigs in power here.
For awhile it looked like Oregon was going to take off as a tech business
hub but with the influx of Californians they managed to kill the golden
goose there as well.
You people don't get it and I don't believe you ever will. And it will show
in the end.
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> Tom Kunich Wrote:
>> So those who do - such as 90% of those living in the bay area who live
>> more than 15 miles from work should suffer because you believe that
>> they ought to commute on bicycles?
>
> Tom, learn to read. I said "I ride to work". I did not say "everyone
> should ride to work". However, the more people the do, the better. For
> health, for reducing pollution, for reducing congestion on roads, for
> making the dwindling supplies of petrol last longer etc. Public
> transport is another good option too.
I wonder if you live in California? Same with Ben.
You people don't seem to have any idea of what it's like here. In 40 years
of working, I've worked closer than 15 miles from home for a total of 5
years. Most of the time my commute has been more than 25 miles and for about
5 years I worked more than 30 miles from home.
Today essentially EVERYONE in the bay area works 20 miles or more from work.
Public transportation has worked for me for a total of 6 years.
And aside from the stupidity implicit in Ben's postings, job growth in
California is stagnating. If you cut out all the jobs in the "service
industry" (always have a job as long as you can work a slurpy machine)
California has been losing jobs and businesses for 10 years now and it is
beginning to show. Electronics, mechanical engineering, biotech firms are
all leaving this state to find someplace that is a little more business
friendly. Many are simply moving out of the country.
One of the places I worked was in Berkeley and a city inspector came in and
threatened to close the place down for having toxic chemicals on site. The
toxic chemicals were - TWO UNOPENED CANS OF MOTOR OIL to lube the machines
in the machine shop.
Berkeley used to be the hub of electronics and biotech and they legislated
all of those businesses right out of town. It mostly moved out onto the
peninsula and was being fed by graduates from Stanford but then the towns
over there began taxing innovative businesses out of the area there as well.
Finally the state government got in on it and now even the huge business
boom in San Diego is moving across the border to get away from the socialist
pigs in power here.
For awhile it looked like Oregon was going to take off as a tech business
hub but with the influx of Californians they managed to kill the golden
goose there as well.
You people don't get it and I don't believe you ever will. And it will show
in the end.