OH where is Willie Green when we need him. He’d be telling us how tax-payer funded high speed rail is the best thing since indoor plumbing and that it alone will save California from doom (even if the project is rife with corruption!)
Yes, I’ll admit I miss the Willie Green Happy Choo Choo threads. I like trains and think they are a great idea BUT passenger rail doesn’t make money in this country and never will. If private industry won’t do something then it usually shouldn’t be done.
Willie Green 'came out' over on LP. Turns out he was a union bastard, an avowed and self-admitted socialist, who had been a deep-cover mole in FR for years. He constantly posted layoff notices on FR during the Bush years, but when Obama got in office and he was on LP, he started posting Happy Economy threads. His love of trains was because he opposed anything but collectivisation, including transportation.
He was a whackjob leftist and a son of a bitch. I'm glad he's dead.