The Transportation Secretary Wants to “Coerce People Out of Their Cars”

  This is my second post in a row in which someone in the government speaks about changing people’s behavior. Both of these posts deal with different aspects of the same subject– global warming.

  This time, instead of the government dictating that Americans need to change their eating behaviors we have an administration official claiming that we need to change our transportation behaviors. Here is what the Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, had to say:

He says he has joined a ‘transformational’ administration: ‘I think we can change people’s behavior

 This is what the true goal of global warming is to these politicians, regulating people and their behaviors. I know that I keep saying the same thing over and over on this issue but it is too important not to.

But that was not all that Ray LaHood had to say on the subject.

It is a way to coerce people out of their cars

   He continues that he likes the “the idea of creating opportunities for people to get out of their cars.” What he calls “opportunity” I call government intrusion. This administration seems hell bent on controlling various aspects of average Americans– from what they can eat to what they can drive.

  The attack on the auto industry began in earnest with the government take over of GM and Chrysler and it isn’t going to let up. From telling automakers which cars they can produce to “coercing” people out of their cars; the global warming effort in Washington to control, regulate, and tax Americans is in high gear.

  These people feel so emboldened now that they are not afraid to tell us what their agenda is any more, Ray LaHood’s comments are proof of that, if only people will listen. It is not time for the government to start changing the people’s behavior, it is time for us to start changing the government’s behavior.