Posted on 08/27/2017 8:26:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
When did PRyno pass his first budget?
The railroads aren’t dying. I can promise you that. Lots of coal heads to Savannah, Charleston and Jacksonville for shipment overseas. Rail, for all its faults, is still cheaper than a truck. Rail is a double edged sword. The FRA has lots of restrictions, that some say hamper how the industry runs. But, when things go bad, they can be catastrophic.
I see your point, but it isn’t as simple as what you say.
Go to comment 18. Not saying that person is a bag guy/girl. But, there’s more going on than meets the eye.
It’s all about stockholders/shareholders and rates of return. Not much about the guys turning wrenches, etc. Now I know what it feels to be someone that loses out to on Indian, here on an H1B Visa.
I’m not asking for sympathy, but things aren’t what they appear to be.
Actually, I’m in agreement with you on this. All of those things must necessarily happen.
The tree of liberty isn’t only watered with the blood of tyrants.
RRs need some new tech to help with their mass packet switching network.
Remote decoupling, automated switchers, autonomous locos with remote sensing drones flying ahead.
Whatever it takes to keep the loaded railcars moving way closer to 100% of the time.
People, those that aren’t hipsters and crybaby liberals, tend to be very resilient. Much more than the elites, politicians, and talking heads give them credit for. I’m not much of a traveler. I’m very content having my feet planted in the US of A. But, I have been to Afghanistan and Iraq. I’ve worked and talked with people from both places. I’ve driven thru their neighborhoods and saw how they live and survive. My point.....
I’d love to know EVERYTHING. I don’t care how deviant and depraved they are. Of course, I’d love to see each and everyone one of them held accountable. But, the American people will deal with it, fix it and move on. It’s in our DNA. Those people are so corrupt and deviant, that they’ve proven that every single one of them needs to go. Even the “good” ones.
I read yesterday, that they passed a law, signed by the President, that allows the DC Metro Authority/Police to make warrantless searches on any property adjacent to the Authority’s property. Guess, even Rand Paul and Louie Ghomert, forgot about that pesky little thing called the 4th Amendement.
But, we’ve only ourselves to blame. Complacency and falling for the same old BS, time and time again, has brought us to the point we’re at now.
I have a friend that works up there. This friend tends to be somewhat, cosmopolitan. Couldn’t wait to get up there, work and save the world. This person has only been there for a little over a year. Has seen stuff that make them ill, with the corruption and the govt’s willingness to look the other way for some folks, who have committed actual crimes. So, taking a plea for something ridiculous is better because it saves the taxpayer money on a trial, blah blah blah. Now, this friend just wants to move as far from there as possible and get away from it.
Negative. Those cranes are building apartments that people can’t afford and offices that aren’t going to be filled. The housing market is about to crash because people can’t afford the prices or get a mortgage, thanks to Dodd Frank. Isn’t it amazing that there never seemed to be much of a problem with the mortgage industry until Carter started CRA and then it was accelerated under Clinton. Amazing.
It’s all about credit and betting against a phantom pot of gold.
That’s it precisely. The warnings are everywhere. The Tech bubble. Another housing bubble.
Hedge funds used to just deal with Wall St. When the housing market crashed, they started buying up the inventories of all the foreclosed properties that the banks were sitting on. At one time, banks weren’t even foreclosing on people, because they couldn’t afford to take on the inventory. Until Wall St showed up and started snatching everything up.
And you’re 100% about the foreign investment and outreach. The government has allowed these companies to become too intertwined and their are too many corporate masters. The little guy does not stand a chance.
The bit of humor I actually get is, some may think it’s dark humor, is that the 1% think that they’ll be safe in their ivory towers, surrounded by their armed guards. And they just might be. But, then again, they just might not be. We live in interesting times. This country has turned into a powder keg with ANTIFA/BLM, etc. If folks start pushing back, it will get ugly. Throw in immigration; refugees; the Muslim Brotherhoods desire to turn the whole world muslim and no one seems to care, except other Muslim countries; and things have the potential to get goofy.
Negative. You aren’t very observant. New factories & businesses. Intel alone just 5 mi away has a massive new plant going in.
But please, wallow in your gloom.
Yep, just like how the dem party left the working men and women (not sure they ever actually did anything really) decades ago; the rep party has left the conservatives with the exception, as Bozell said, of the Freedom Caucus.
What really need is an entire party of Freedom Caucus type people. Then and only then can this severely listed ship be righted. Time is of the essence though. If we the people waste too much time trying to figure this out; it will be too late. The stern is already reaching the top of the swamp.
Starting pay is about $70,000
You can make about $520 for 12 trip. It’s based on miles.
About $2 per mile. So a 130 mile trip pays about $260 and you can do 2 of those a day.
So pay when you can hold a good job can go up to about $140k
Coal traffic since Trump got in office has increased tremendously. It is not at it’s all time high yet and may never get back there.
My company lost over $1 billion in revenue from the war on coal. That is in one year.
Pipelines are great, you just can’t pipeline everything everywhere. Plastic, coal, grain, hazardous material, beef tallow, stuff like that needs the railroad.
And we’ll see who ends p working there.
We have it: the Constitution Party. What we really need is conservatives who don't wind up swallowing the don't-throw-your-vote-away con and drinking the GOPe Koolaid every election.
No, we dont have it though I wish it were. Constitution Party individuals I have known are disproportionately doomsday Christ based cultists and I have no interest in supporting an American taliban of the insane.
When your candidate can get out of bed to take a leak without encountering 6 extra-planar malevolent entities then I might consider listening. (HINT: They might want to actually read the book they claim to live their lives by to understand why that isnt going to happen.) There is a reason that Americans were not keen in early years to vote Catholic (not just because of The Pope) and these candidates tend to be many times worse in their flat out delusional interpretations of the directives they are given from above than anything those early voters were concerned about.
Find a Santorum supporting wackjob and read their intentionally intellectually dishonest ramblings, manipulations, and flat out lies about The Bible. That might give you a head start on the kinds of issues I speak to.
I DEEPLY hate the Republican party because I know that at its founding it was an evil proto-socialist experiment (See “The Wisconsin Idea” for an entry into the policies the Elites espouse) but it is better than the openly Communist idea offered by the Democrats. I agree that we should not be drinking Kool-aid and intensely desire for there to be a party that bases its decisions on the Constitution. Unfortunately my experience is that those who believe that bed-wetting demons are Americas biggest threat cant be trusted.
Known any of their candidates?
And the larger point is that Koolaid-shunning sane conservatives could completely take over from the whackjobs.
I DEEPLY hate the Republican party because I know that at its founding it was an evil proto-socialist experiment (See “The Wisconsin Idea” for an entry into the policies the Elites espouse) but it is better than the openly Communist idea offered by the Democrats.
Driving toward the cliff's edge at "only" 30 mph is in no meaningful sense "better" than driving toward it at 60. Not-as-bad-as-the-Rats is the paper umbrella atop the tumbler of Koolaid.
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