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Topic Education

 * Contention One is Topic Education— **

__**ARTBA, 10 **__ – American Road and Transportation Builders Association to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform “The Contribution of the Federal Transportation Investment Programs to Fiscal Responsibility and Deficit Reduction”, [] )
 * First, transportation infrastructure is financed in one of two ways—through the general fund, or through increased revenue—stimulus programs finance through the general fund while failing to repair the Highway Trust Fund **

Transportation Investment and User Financing … expanded transportation improvements.

__**Snyder, 6/26 **__ – became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica and public radio. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC (Tanya, “Where Did the Senate Get the Extra Money to Pay For Its Bill?”, 26 June 2012, [] )
 * Second, Congress just passed a MASSIVE transportation bill—it should have triggered your disads, but didn’t fix the Highway Trust Fund **

Congressional leaders announced … just to avoid raising the gas tax.

Plan

 * Thus the plan: The United States federal government should increase the federal excise tax rate and phase-in a price floor and variable tax on gasoline for surface transportation infrastructure in the United States. **

Energy Policy

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contention Two is Energy Policy— **

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turgeon, 10 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Legal Associate at the Cato Institute; J.D.University of Virginia School of Law 2009; B.A. Tufts University 2004, (Evan N., “Triple-Dividends: Toward Pigovian Gasoline Taxation”, Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law 2010, Lexis) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The United States' current energy policies …"as they impoverish society as a whole."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First, current federal energy strategies fail—they impose market distortions, and ineffective constraints on private industry **

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turgeon, 10 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Legal Associate at the Cato Institute; J.D.University of Virginia School of Law 2009; B.A. Tufts University 2004, (Evan N., “Triple-Dividends: Toward Pigovian Gasoline Taxation”, Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law 2010, Lexis)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, these Energy strategies gut U.S. foreign policy—they ensure ineffective diplomatic leverage and lack of U.S. legitimacy **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">C. Foreign Policy Detriment In 1828, … detrimental to the United States' interests may result.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Barlow, 2 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Director of the Berglund Center for Internet Studies, holds the Matsushita Chair of Asian Studies at Pacific University, Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley (Jeffrey, “American Power, Globalism, and the Internet: Editorial Essay”, The Journal of Education, Community and Values, March 2002, http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/article.php?id=527)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, that lack of legitimacy ensures nuclear, chemical, and biological war **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Much of Nye’s analysis … state autonomy in a networked system.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zakaria, 8 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, & editor of Foreign Affairs magazine & Newsweek Internationa & professor of IR and political philosophy at Harvard and Columbia University (Fareed, “Wanted: A New Grand Strategy”, 8 December 2008, [] )
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But effective multilateralism led by the US solves—prevents multiple triggers for conflict and destruction **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The "Global Trends" report … He should seize it.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Greene, 6/28 **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(Michael, “34.1 MPG CAFE Standards for 2016 Upheld by U.S. Court of Appeals” http://www.treehugger.com/cars/341-mpg-cafe-standards-2016-upheld-us-court-appeals.html//HH)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Specifically, new CAFE regulations are coming— **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The 2012-2016 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards … figure out what solution works best.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brownfield, 11 **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(Mike, “How Will Obama’s EPA Regulations Affect the Auto Industry?”, <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They’ll collapse job growth and the Auto Sector **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Say goodbye to cars and trucks … many serious injuries.”

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">U.S. News, 12 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(“Is the U.S. Auto Industry on Track for a Comeback?”, <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, Auto Recovery is essential to U.S. Economic recovery—the auto industry will drive other sectors and ensure job growth **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">More than three years after bad management ... That's going to be hard for the Japanese."


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, a weak economy causes conflict—all empirical analysis goes our way **

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Royal, 10 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, (Jedediah, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline … should be considered ancillary to those views.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turgeon, 10 **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Legal Associate at the Cato Institute; J.D.University of Virginia School of Law 2009; B.A. Tufts University 2004, (Evan N., “Triple-Dividends: Toward Pigovian Gasoline Taxation”, Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law 2010, Lexis)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finally, an increased gas tax is the transition method—it transforms U.S. foreign policy and re-energizes U.S. diplomacy **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Significantly increasing federal taxes on gasoline … it is cheaper to use.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deficits **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contention Three is Deficits— **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First, the deficit is on an unsustainable path – now is the CRITICAL time to re-orient policies to stave-off a new debt tragedy **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Council on Foreign Relations, 12 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(“U.S. Deficits and the National Debt,” pg online @ [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">At some point in the not-too-distant future … sustainability of an active U.S. foreign policy," he says.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, Congress has two options for the future—increased revenue generation, or deficit spending—only NEW REVENUE ensures Fiscal Responsibility **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ARTBA, 10 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – (American Road and Transportation Builders Association to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, “The Contribution of the Federal Transportation Investment Programs to Fiscal Responsibility and Deficit Reduction,” [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">For more than 50 years … budget-neutral user taxes and levies.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, the plan is a KEY TEST for future budget debates—increasing revenue ensures a sustainable fiscal path **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Washington Post, 3/7 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(“A fiscal test for Congress,” 7 March 2012)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Over the past year … "the most predictable economic crisis in history"?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, Failure to Reign-In Deficits and Establish Fiscal Discipline Guts U.S.-China Relations they’ll be over-aggressive, gutting cooperation **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prasad, 2/25 __****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">holds the New Century Chair in International Economics. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was previously head of the Financial Studies Division and the China Division at the IMF (Eswar, “The U.S.-China Economic Relationship: Shifts and Twists in the Balance of Power,” 25 February 2012, [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The lopsided nature of trade … and tackling climate change.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Multiple Scenarios for Extinction **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wenzhong, 4 __****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2/7/2004, (Zhou, “Vigorously Pushing Forward the Constructive and Cooperative Relationship Between China and the United States,” <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">) Modified for Gendered Language

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">China's development needs … even greater accomplishments in China-US relations.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Manufacturing

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contention Four is Manufacturing— **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First, manufacturing is on steep decline—will take the U.S. economy with it—new action is key **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nash-Hoff, 12 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(“American Manufacturing Has Declined More Than Most Experts Have Thought,” [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A new report released … actually done by foreign workers.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, surface transportation investment is CRITICAL to U.S. manufacturing—props up dependent industries **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hermann, 11 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– P.E. SECB, F.ASCE President American Society of Civil Engineers (Andrew “Impact Of Infrastructure Investment On The Manufacturing Sector”, Lexis)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ASCE commends the Joint Economic Committee … Increase federal leadership in infrastructure;


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, investment in HIGHWAY transportation infrastructure is particularly critical—ensures long-term growth of steel and the manufacturing base **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">AISI, 12 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> (American Iron and Steel Institute, “AISI Public Policy Priorities – Promoting a Pro-Manufacturing Agenda,” pg online @ [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A globally competitive economy … research on improved gas mileage;


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, manufacturing capabilities are key to technology necessary for U.S. deterrence **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">O’Hanlon et al., 12 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> (Mackenzie Eaglen, American Enterprise Institute Rebecca Grant, IRIS Research Robert P. Haffa, Haffa Defense Consulting Michael O'Hanlon, The Brookings Institution Peter W. Singer, The Brookings Institution Martin Sullivan, Commonwealth Consulting Barry Watts, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments “The Arsenal of Democracy and How to Preserve It: Key Issues in Defense Industrial Policy January 2012,” [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The current wave of defense cuts … in a globalized marketplace.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Credible deterrence solves global nuclear wars **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robinson, 1 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – president and director of the Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratories (C. Paul, “A White Paper: Pursuing a New Nuclear Weapons Policy for the 21st Century,” 3/22/2001, http://www.nukewatch.org/importantdocs/resources/pursuing_a_new_nuclear_weapons_p.html)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I served as an arms negotiator … the choice would be in our hands.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All levels of manufacturing and R&D are interconnected—a sustainable manufacturing base in the U.S. is critical to Advanced Manufacturing and R&D **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lind & Freedman, 12 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – policy director of New America’s Economic Growth Program and a co-founder of the New America Foundation AND a program associate in New America’s Economic Growth Program (Michael & Joshua, “Value Added: America’s Manufacturing Future,” http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Lind,%20Michael%20and%20Freedman,%20Joshua%20-%20NAF%20-%20Value%20Added%20America%27s%20Manufacturing%20Future.pdf)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Perhaps the greatest contribution … to 50 percent by 2020.33


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Independently, that innovation solves great power wars **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Taylor, 4 __** **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Mark, “The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions”, 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Technological innovation is of central importance … would not exist in the first place

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The convergence of "exponentially advancing technologies" … even if people don't know it.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, advanced manufacturing technology will make war IMPOSSIBLE **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paone, 9 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – 66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs for the US Air Force, (Chuck, “Technology convergence could prevent war, futurist says,” 8-10-09, http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123162500)

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We begin with the introduction to our affirmative from **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grengs, 4 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan ( Joe, CITY, VOL. 9, NO. 1, APRIL, “The abandoned social goals of public transit in the neoliberal city of the USA”, http://communitylearningpartnership.org/share/docs/Grengs.Abandoned_Social_Goals_of_Public_Transit.pdf)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Imagine a bus stop… And yeah, you have a good point.” (del Barco, 1997, p. 1)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The drive for capitalist gain has seen a shift in the goal of transit, from assisting those who can’t afford cars to helping to promote white sprawl and segregate urban communities **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grengs, 4 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan ( Joe, CITY, VOL. 9, NO. 1, APRIL, “The abandoned social goals of public transit in the neoliberal city of the USA”, http://communitylearningpartnership.org/share/docs/Grengs.Abandoned_Social_Goals_of_Public_Transit.pdf)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hidden behind the surge … public purpose of mass transit.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Capitalism is applying its stranglehold to public transportation—that worsens inequality, devalues lives and creates continuous war **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grengs, 4 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan ( Joe, CITY, VOL. 9, NO. 1, APRIL, “The abandoned social goals of public transit in the neoliberal city of the USA”, http://communitylearningpartnership.org/share/docs/Grengs.Abandoned_Social_Goals_of_Public_Transit.pdf)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In an emerging world order … who depend most on good transit.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This creates slums, filled with an urban underclass—the system uses racism and classism to legitimize its failures **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wilson, 10 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(Carter, professor of political science at the University of Toledo, The Dominant Class and the Construction of Racial Oppression: A Neo-Marxist/Gramscian Approach to Race in the United States, Google Scholars)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In the final analysis … analysis of contemporary racism.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And, capitalism builds transportation systems that promote consumerism, causing massive environmental catastrophe—we must advocate a mass expansion of public transit **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Townsend, 8 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">(Terry, managing editor, Individual Versus Social Solutions to Global Warming)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We have to convince millions … capitalism is inherently incapable of doing**.**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These excluding and homogenizing practices prevent coalition and organization of the masses and causes extinction—we must allow the specter of Communism to reemerge **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Žižek, 9 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana University,(Slavoj, “Censorship Today: Violence, orEcology as a New Opium for the Masses” [] )

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Last but not least … the hypothesis to deploy itself.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The communism we speak of is not an ideal, but a movement that reacts to contradictions in the capitalist system – This vision of communism is thwarted by a perceived lack of revolutionary subject **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Žižek, 9 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana (Slavoj, New Left Review 57, May-June 2009, “How to Begin at the Beginning” http://www.newleftreview.org/II/57/slavoj-zizek-how-to-begin-from-the-beginning)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">So where are we today … against all odds?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Transportation infrastructure is the bastion of global capitalism’s abuses—it creates zones of inclusion and exclusion – Only by accepting the mantel of the revolutionary subject and the excluded can we engage in universalized antagonism where we can recapture value to life and stave off human extinction **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Žižek, 9 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana (Slavoj, New Left Review 57, May-June 2009, “How to Begin at the Beginning” http://www.newleftreview.org/II/57/slavoj-zizek-how-to-begin-from-the-beginning)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">It is not enough to remain faithful … actually becoming so is to act preventively.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We must engage the state as planners – Using a universalized particular demand to provide transportation for urban populations acts as a counter-methodology to that of neoliberal planning **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grengs, 4 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan ( Joe, CITY, VOL. 9, NO. 1, APRIL, “The abandoned social goals of public transit in the neoliberal city of the USA”, http://communitylearningpartnership.org/share/docs/Grengs.Abandoned_Social_Goals_of_Public_Transit.pdf)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Federal policy encourages … meaningful citizen participation.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Žižek & Daly, 4 __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– *researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana AND taught at Essex and Manchester Universities, joined the Politics course team in 1999, responsible for the Level 2 core module in International Studies, Global Imaginations: Ideas and Identities, also active in the area of Political Theory, and teaches and co-ordinates SOC1001 Introduction to Political Theory, SOC3006 Making of Modern Political Thought, and offers a specialist option on SOC3028 Ideology, Fantasy and Film in the final year, has published a range of articles on Political Theory, Marxism and Post-Marxism and the Politics of Ideology and Fantasy and is currently writing a book on the work of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek for Sage, completed a training course for supervising PhD students.(Slavoj & Glyn, “Risking the Impossible”, 2004, [] )


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">For Zizek it is imperative … in an otherwise sound matrix. **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The affirmative represents an ethical shift that embraces contingency in the face of certainty – This represents a dramatic shift from existing, unquestioned institutions **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Žižek & Daly, 4 __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana AND taught at Essex and Manchester Universities, joined the Politics course team in 1999, responsible for the Level 2 core module in International Studies, Global Imaginations: Ideas and Identities, also active in the area of Political Theory, and teaches and co-ordinates SOC1001 Introduction to Political Theory, SOC3006 Making of Modern Political Thought, and offers a specialist option on SOC3028 Ideology, Fantasy and Film in the final year, has published a range of articles on Political Theory, Marxism and Post-Marxism and the Politics of Ideology and Fantasy and is currently writing a book on the work of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek for Sage, completed a training course for supervising PhD students.(Slavoj & Glyn, “Conversations with Zizek”, page 18-19)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">For Zizek, a confrontation with the … exhorts us to risk the impossible.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thus, we demand in the face of neoliberalism that the United States federal government increase mass transit for urban areas. **