public transportation and seniors

From AARP and Streetfilms...

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[Roger]

"It's a pleasure to be able to say I live in Arlington," said the little old rich lady. "And the sign said, 'Long haired freaky people need not apply.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia

"In 2010, there were an estimated 90,842 residences in the county. In 2000, the median single family home price was $262,400. About 123 homes were worth $1 million or more. In 2008, the median home was worth $586,200. 4,721 houses, about 10% of all stand-alone homes, were worth $1 million or more."

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Arlington-Virginia.html

So AARP is describing how the top 1% or so of Americans might live more happily, but what about the other 99%, many who dare not set foot on crumbled sidewalk or weeded path for fear of being robbed, or shot or stabbed to death, or breathing polluted air that will surely shorten their lives by years?

Compare Arlington with the http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/median-home-price-in-detroit-7500/

I wonder what percentage of folks in these cities would find AARP's video on Public Transportation and Seniors enlightening.

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Detroit-Michigan.html
http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Cleveland-Ohio.html
http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Gary-Indiana.html

My momma one said we live in a land of plenty, and you can be anything you want to be. Yes, that was the American Dream http://www.amazon.com/The-American-Myth-Success-Horatio/dp/0252060431 But today? By today's standards, founders of our Great Nation were among the richest on earth. http://www.amazon.com/Democratic-American-Constitution-Second-Edition/dp/0300095244 Whom did they have in mind as they penned those Great Words? Abraham Lincoln once said, "...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." It seems that we have lost sight of who those people are. http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=98654 Now the captain sits in his http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/counting_house.asp while this Great Nation drifts toward the rocks.