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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Feb 18 19:47:59 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 18 19:12:22 2007. You only back up what you say with rhetoric.Not so. Most of what I know about him comes from the Power Broker. Why would reading books on Robert Moses make a difference? First of all, you don't know half of what he built. He was very influential upstate as well as downstate. He also advised other cities and countries. I think he even built something or advised in Brazil. You also don't know about his early history, how he started out with the best of intentions and was a champion of the common man before he got drunk with power. He was responsible for the first civil service tests to give people jobs based on their qualifications instead of who they knew. It wasn't until he realized that it doesn't matter how good your plans are if you have no power to get anything done that he began his quest for power. His personality was not that different from FDR, LaGuardia, or other politicians after power which is why he did not get along with these people. Moses was very smart and he deserves credit for that even if he didn't use his power the way we think he should have used it. Yes he was dispicable and hurt a lot of people needlessly, but he wasn't all bad. You may still hate him, but you will get a greater understanding of him if you know more about him. As Chris said, it's not all black and white. |
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