[Iowa-dx] Another Yahoo "Best Answer" Award To GreenPartyRon

[Hart, Holly J]

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From: iowa-dx-admin@lists.gp-us.org [iowa-dx-admin@lists.gp-us.org] On Beha=
lf Of GreenParty Ron [greenpartyron@activist.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:18 PM
To: iowa-dx@lists.gp-us.org
Subject: Re: [Iowa-dx] Another Yahoo "Best Answer" Award To GreenPartyRon

This is my reply to Cerene, who responded to my posting when she
awarded me "Best Answer" status:

Hello Libris FIdelis (greenpartyron),

You have received a message from another user!

From: Cerene<http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylc=3DX3oDMTBxZjVlc3FkBF9=
TAwRzZWMDdXNyX3VzcgRzbGsDc2VuZGVy;_ylv=3D3?show=3DVQYMLthNaa>

Subject: Highways

Message: Hi, I'm the one that posted the question on the cons of building a=
 highway. You see, I'm a student in Senior Honors Earth Science and my clas=
s is doing a debate on the extension of the Northwest Parkway in Colorado. =
My group was chosen to defend the con side of it. There wasn't much informa=
tion on the parkway online, so I had to turn to other methods. At first, I =
thought that the only cons were that it causes pollution and destroys the w=
ildlife. Otherwise, I thought that there were only pros to building the hig=
hway. The highway does give more people access to different jobs and it doe=
s help the economy with the building of more businesses along its route. I =
know that the other group is going to use those facts against us so do you =
have any ideas on how I can counter that? Are there any other side effects =
to this highway? Also, I didn't quite understand what you meant by "brings =
more 'off-roaders' to attack the natural environmen t and the parts about t=
he rip-rap. Thank you so much for helping me out, it was greatly appreciate=
d!

Cerene

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My posted answer to Cerene:

About the job creation part of creating new highways, there already are som=
e "super" super highways and freeways enough to handle our population.
Most new highways are created for commerce, not population mobility.  They =
contribute to urban sprawl.  The idea is to get jobs into the city, where m=
ost of the poor are.  I agree that a lot of the poor are in rural areas, ho=
wever, most poor live in the urban cities, and that is where job creation i=
s needed.
Of course, the same applies to new commercial business as it does to buildi=
ng a new fast food drive-through: land is more expensive in the city than i=
n the sub-urban areas and rural areas.  If a fifth of an acre costs two-mil=
lion dollars in Orange County, California, how many $5.00 hamburger meals a=
nd $1.50 carbonated drinks have to be sold to pay for the workers' wages, p=
urchase of the land and construction of the building and parking lot, pay t=
axes and the owner's profits?  That effects a cost-increase ("inflation") o=
n the product, the same as it does for a manufacturer, so highways are the =
means of getting more business by creating urban sprawl.  It is a "Catch-22=
" dog-eat-dog problem situation.  But urban sprawl "eats up" farmland and w=
ildlife habitat!
How we address these issues will determine our ability to manage our over-p=
opulation issue which is the profit motive for more urban sprawl.
"Humans are really sub-human with the ability to be human if only they woul=
d try. -- Ronald Willet Kinum 1996"

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