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Throw out the Halloween candy!?!?! Cruel and unusual! My parents generally constrained the amount of sweets we could eat and once I got on my own I went crazy, eating entire boxes of Peppermint patties and making meals of Reese's peanut butter cups and milk. I wonder if we could get better results from having kids eat a bunch of candy so much that they feel sick, make them realize how bad they feel and that it is due to the over-consumption of sugary products, and that could make them drop candy themselves.

I'm not OP.

The LA area does have a rather extensive metro system. The only problem is that you have to get on a bus to take it. According to a US News and World Report from two years ago, LA has the third best public transit in the United States. For only five dollars a day or twenty dollars a week you can ride almost any bus or rail line in Los Angeles anywhere you want. All lines on this map run at least every fifteen minutes during daylight hours. Metro has a trip planner where you enter your start and endpoints and it tells you which bus to take and google has a transit trip planner on its maps website for Los Angeles that also works great. If you are at any bus stop in Los Angeles there is now a number you can text and find out when the next bus will be arriving because every bus stop now has its own identifying mark.

Here is an article from Slate talking about Los Angeles is America's next great mass transit city Los Angeles is currently in the process of building at least three rail lines. The Expo line opened last year from Downtown LA to Culver City and the section to Santa Monica is currently under construction. The purple line subway constructed from downtown to Koreatown in the 1980s and stopped due to political pressure is about to be extended to Westwood if political pressure from Beverly Hills doesn't stop it. The gold line from Pasadena to Downtown in the 90s was just extended to East Los Angeles. The Crenshaw line is being built from South Los Angeles up to Koreatown. There are lots of rail projects currently under construction.

As for the history of mass transit in Los Angeles, yes LA had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in the country in the 1920s and 30s and ripped it out. LA was built as a railway town. Henry Huntington was one of the original land magnates in LA as well as a transportation magnate. He owned the trains and the land. He would build the train out to his land and sell a bunch of houses. When the automobile came around and the land between his lands became more accessible and as Los Angeles filled in people preferred their cars. Take a look at photos of LA from the 1950s. Half of the lots were still unbuilt, the private companies that owned the railways were losing money and could no longer funnel people to their own lots, and people preferred to drive their cars. The train routes were torn up and replaced by more mobile buses. Unfortunately people don't like buses and buses get stuck in traffic and now no one thinks LA has mass transit.

Extensive roadways were planned and enacted in LA from the 1930s through the 1970s and many more were planned and then stopped such as the Laurel Canyon Freeway all the way down LA Cienga from the airport and then up and over Laurel Canyon into the San Fernando Valley, the Beverly Hills Freeway from Hollywood to Santa Monica, and the Venice Freeway along the beach. History of California Highways

As for examples of other cities to follow: I've only been there once but LA reminds me of Berlin. It is huge and sprawling and dense. Los Angeles is already the most densely populated metropolitan area in the United States. (Compare LA not to Manhattan but the entire NY metro area.) We are doing a good job in prioritizing rail and alternative transit. We recently taxed ourselves an extra half a percent sales tax for the next 30 years to pay for transit improvements. We are installing lots of new rail and a lot of bicycle infrastructure improvements as well. Two things I think LA has messed up on--we are still spending metro money to increase freeway lanes. We are spending one billion dollars to add one lane of freeway in each direction for less than 10 miles to a freeway which already has five or six lanes in each direction. We also switched from the German honor system of transit whereby there are not turnstiles and if you get caught without a ticket you have to pay a fine to a system with turnstiles. We spent about a hundred million dollars to install turnstiles with the hope of getting an extra two to five million dollars a year in fares. Neither of those makes sense to me. However, on the whole, Los Angeles is moving quickly in the right direction.

How can we make this more well known and get Parks out of his job in the LA city council?

What do you think of the "Collateral Damage" video?

What do you think think about an all volunteer army vs. a draft?

What do you think of mercenary armies vs government armies?

Why did you join the military?

What are your career plans?

Your comment has lots of misinformation.

Paul Ryan did NOT come from an impoverished situation. When his father, a prominent attorney, died in 1986(Ryan himself was 16) he left an estate of more than $400,000. This was his father's wealth.

His maternal grandmother set up a trust soon after his father died of which Ryan has a share currently valued at about $500,000.

Ryan also has a share in a different family trust that is also valued at about $500,000.

This information is publicly available in an article at the LA Times as well as other places.

Also he didn't take Medicaid benefits. He took Social Security survivor benefits and saved them and used them to help pay for college. Social Security survivor benefits pay out to children under the age of 18 when a parent passes away. He and his family didn't need the benefits to live, his family had more than enough money, and he thinks your family shouldn't need them either.

Paul Ryan is not a common man who worked his way up from nothing. He comes from a prominent family that controlled and still controls millions of dollars.