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<p>[quote user="schlimm"]</p> <p><span>[quote user="Sam1"]The toll roads in Texas have been or are being built so that low income motorists can avoid them. Very few people in Texas use public transportation.[/quote]</span></p> <p><span>Those two declarative sentences, not just one, clearly state your opinion. What part of them is NOT a correct reflection of your views? Barring phrases snipped out of a larger work that states a contrary opinion, the claiming that what one says is taken out of context is usually just a dodge to avoid responsibility for statements that are either wrong, embarrassing or both. </span>[/quote]</p> <p><span>Maybe you should read everything instead of lifting sentences out of context. That includes clarification comments. </span></p> <p><span>"The comment about toll roads being built so that low income people can avoid them could be better stated to say that they have been built so that low income motorists don't have to use them and have reasonable alternatives. Thus, no one is forced to use TX130 around Austin; they can continue on I-35 through the heart of the city, but they are likely to encounter more traffic."</span></p> <p><span>If you cannot see from the verifiable numbers that a small percentage of people in Texas, including those in the state's major metropolitan areas, use public transportation, there is nothing that I can say to convince you otherwise. But then I don't care what conclusions you draw.</span></p> <p><span>Nope! Claiming that statements are taken out of context is a relevant observation. All too often, when you, as well as several others, don't like the facts, you push back with an extraneous comment without in anyway addressing the facts.</span></p>
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