Also, our neighborhood had no sidewalks. Sidewalks would encourage walking which, as we all know, is detrimental to the financial well-being of automakers and oil companies, two of the pillars of Capitalism. If we were to walk to school instead of having Mom drive, the Communists would win!

(By the way, since the fall of the Soviet Union, almost all suburban developments have been built with both parks and sidewalks. They are no longer part of the Communist Conspiracy. Nowadays, they're just things children don't use because the media has convinced their parents that there's a child rapist hiding behind every bush and tree.)