Your government at work.
Posted on 02/13/2014 7:04:32 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
There are few things in life that progressive liberals love more than spending other people's money. When ensconced in government, they spend money for freely than a sailor in port who's been at sea for six months. Even when they're not in government, they look for ways to spend our hard-earned tax dollars by pushing ballot initiatives. One type of project in particular seems to excite liberals into a frenzy: high-speed rail. On the surface, you would think that progressive liberals and high-speed rail are an odd mix. You have to use fuel to run a train. You have to hurt Gaia by digging trenches in her flesh and building bridges over her arties in order to build a rail line. Yet, there is a reason why liberals love high-speed rail.
The answer to this question can be summed up in one word: control. Liberals love mass transit as that the power of movement is taken away from the common man. If you're forced to rely upon the government to get you from point A to point B, then you're under their thumb. One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the automobile that freed man from the tyranny of being stuck in a geographic location. Yes, in the past you could use other means of transport, such as horses or ships, to move around, but such modes of transportation lack the immediacy and speed of which you can pick up and go. Sick of the high taxes and insane government where you live? Then pack up your car and drive to another city or state.
The ability to move freely and quickly is something that we shouldn't take lightly. The last act of defiance (before that of open rebellion) is to vote with our feet. That is why liberals hate automobiles and the freedom of the open road. At every turn, they seek to make it more onerous to own a personal car (usually by increasing costs of gas, insurance, and registration) while pushing mass transit as the answer to every problem. Bring up issues facing normal people in most state and local debates, and you'll immediately get progressive liberals bleating about the sad state of mass transit in the area.
Of course, mass transit such as high-speed rail isn't cheap. California's proposed high-speed rail has estimates of $91 billion, which is far more than originally thought. That means that every single person in California will owe $2394 in taxes before the first train even runs. And surprise, surprise, it seems that the high-speed rail won't run as fast as originally proposed. I'm sure costs won't continue to climb in the future.
There is one other aspect of high-speed rail and mass transit besides control that liberals love. They can use such projects to line the pockets of their union allies. I can safely say that every company that gets a contract will have to be unionized. You can't have non-workers getting in the way of the gravy train with their work ethic and keeping within a budget. You've got to feed taxpayer money to unions, which then give money and support to progressive liberal politicians. It's a win-win all around except for freedom.
Willie Green Memorial Ping!
And trains are efficient for getting dissenters to the ovens all the more quickly!
*SPIT*
Obviously the goal is public transportation (aka control) instead of private vehicles.
Although once they get full computer authority in the private vehicles the libs may not be so hateful of them.
When non-Eric Holder's people drive around in personal vehicles, it is very difficult for Eric Holder's people to play Knockout King on them or flash-rob them.
Get them out of their cars and into trains and terminals and Eric Holder's people have equal access to them.
You were faster than I.
Your government at work.
Funny that high-speed rail was bad from the liberal POV when the private railroads in the USA were trying to develop it in the 50s and 60s, and the feds regulated/taxed it out of existence while making public works projects out of interstate highways and airports.
Because liberals are immature little children who think the only jobs are firemen (think govt jobs) and love playing with their choo choo trains....
Ie. they have the mentality of 4 year olds...
Anything that turns individuals into cogs in a big government wheel is supportey by liberals. The difference between classic and modern liberalism is what is called negative vs. positive liberty. The founders of America were the negative liberty type: just keep government out of my personal life. Today’s liberals belive in “positive” liberty: government the distributer of liberty through entitlements. They are completely opposite to the founding principals of America, and shall I say it? They’re supporters of fascism in every form except name.
[ Obviously the goal is public transportation (aka control) instead of private vehicles.
Although once they get full computer authority in the private vehicles the libs may not be so hateful of them. ]
One has to wonder WHY they want everyone so packed into their agenda 21 cities and leave the countryside all vacant...
One would almost think that they are under some sort of alien control and their want all humans concentrated in cities so the aliens only have small areas of the earth to bomb and so after that there are no red necks left int he countryside with shotguns left to shoot the greys and start any sort of meaningful resistance...
But I don’t believe in aliens existence, so I have to assume the people in power think it is better to have have a neo feudal system where the “unwashed masses” are safely under their control in cities all dependent upon them like the serfs of the middle ages.
Like a Shinkansen.
Liberals love high speed rail .... as long as everyone else pays for it!
I saw a movie years ago where nobody except the military and police had guns, and everybody rode in trains.
It was called “Schindler’s List”
They are stuck in the past. They are attracted to rule by dictators; railroads; fuels such as the sun and wind; not using modern IDs for voting, gun background checks, and social security card verification for jobs. Don’t forget O’s comment that if we didn’t have ATMs, more people could be hired. On and on...
I takes a lot of land from private owners and puts the government in control of that land for all eternity.
And it launders tens of millions of dollars through the unions and right back to the pockets of the democrat politicians who pushed it.
Spot on!
A modern tyrant no longer needs to post burly machinegun toting men on street corners. He controls a population with REGULATIONS and PAPER.
Want to work? Need a WORK PERMIT!
Want a place to live? Need a RESIDENCY PERMIT!
Want to travel? (Only on PUBLIC TRANSIT, of course.) Need a TRAVEL PERMIT or INTERNAL PASSPORT! (After the E15 ethanol gasoline destroys your engine.)
Want to eat? Need that FOOD RATION BOOK!
And draconian penalties await those who fail to obey the regulations or help others do so. That’s when the burly armed men appear. And they will just be “following orders.” Now where have we heard THAT phrase before??
“That could NEVER HAPPEN HERE,” say you?
That’s what many of our fellow “citizens” said about Obama!
First off, STOP GIVING THEM THE TERM “PROGRESSIVE”!!!!!!!
How can a group that continues to fall back on the “failed policies of the past” be “progressive”??????????
On that same note we got rid of most local commuter rail systems (except in the really big cities) because personal transportation (ie. cars and trucks) were preferred by most people. Somewhere between 1920 and 1940 in Milwaukee, WI we ripped up the extensive trolly system because no one was riding it. For years the current Mayor has been obsessed with putting in a little oval downtown (for many millions of dollars) of a trolly, taking away critical parking spots, requiring utility lines to be moved at a cost of many more millions of dollars (that he wants the rest of the state to pay for); all for a trolly line that won’t even run 1 mile.
Ok, sorry for the run-on sentence. Oh, and the rubber tired “trollies” we have/had; well that just isn’t good enough.
For many years, and to this day we continue to fight back against commuter rail; a concept that continues to be a black hole every place that has it. The exception is the really huge cities.
Liberals are not in love with rail; they are obsessed with it! In part because it fails every place it is tried (their ideas can never be wrong; it is just that they have not done them far enough) they have to try it more. Maybe one more needle will get the heroin addict to where he needs to be.... Same idea except the libs REFUSE to pay for their addictions; we are supposed to do that for them.
Not really, trains and progressives are both out of the 19th century.
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