If you're like me, you struggle with how to INTERACT with others who seem so hard-hearted (edited)

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36. racism and classism

Here in Lexington a few years ago our megar public transportation system needed some financial help and that was put up as a ballot initiative. You could cut the racism and classism with a knife surrounding the arguments against additional funding. It goes along with the Limbaugh style idea of if you don't have enough money (in this case for a car) that means you are lazy and undeserving. The bus service seemed to anticipate this and ran a lot of commercials showing disabled people who literally could not drive using public transportation as well as people who worked in area hospitals. Fortunately it worked and public transportation continued here, in its limited way. People who utilize it are still looked down on.

Public Transportation would fall under the Tea Bagger idea of THEM wanting our tax money because they are LAZY. Don't even start on energy conservation, that's unspeakable in bagger land.