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A $53 Billion Railroad to Nowhere
Three Fingers of Politics ^ | 2/10/11 | Blind Blueberry

Posted on 02/10/2011 12:03:28 PM PST by Bumpus2

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To: Bumpus2

“What’s with the liberal preoccupation with high-speed rail?”

Libs wish to take away all individual freedoms, and to get people to continue to vote libs into power. Notice increasingly in elections the large majority of Dem voters come from large cities, most of which have union-controlled mass transit present.

In order to do get these two objectives, one of the chief ways is to get people out of personal automobiles and into mass transit, which libs can use to control lives much easier.

The libs use as an excuse the drummed-up “energy crisis” to scare individuals into believing they need the govt to do something to “save” them. So out comes mass transit in the form of high speed rail, saving energy and supposedly a convenience to people.

Libs will not rest until all are under the control of govt. They will move as many they can into cities where unions are strong and control is the greatest.


21 posted on 02/10/2011 12:56:33 PM PST by bestintxas (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is missing its Idiot.)
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To: Bumpus2

I’m sure you will find, just like ethanol and airport scanners, that significant numbers of government officials have lare stakes in the companies that will develop this technology.


22 posted on 02/10/2011 12:59:38 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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Railroads are not only unionized they are about the strongest union around. Look up the origin of the term featherbeading. They have there own retirement system with different IRS rules than others. Throw them a bone Joe, and they’ll keep backing Democrats.


23 posted on 02/10/2011 1:05:20 PM PST by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: ez

“I’m sure you will find, just like ethanol and airport scanners, that significant numbers of government officials have lare stakes in the companies that will develop this technology.”

Until we get the citizens of this country educated so that they understand that the elected class is not there to help citizens but help themselves, this will continue.

I lived in Louisiana for a number of years. That state is heavily dependent upon oil and gas income to feed the state treasury.

Way back when Huey P. Long was the governor, he as governor awarded production licenses to a company that he owned, which subsequently gave rights to the Texas Company, one of the largest oil companies at the time. His company reserved some of the revenue coming from those properties for itself.

Guess what? The descendants of Huey to this day are still raking in the money from the royalties being collected on some of Louisiana’s most prolific oil and gas fields.

The is wholesale deprivation of the citizens of the state to benefit those in power. It will not stop until ordinary citizens understand who these politicians are.


24 posted on 02/10/2011 1:11:13 PM PST by bestintxas (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is missing its Idiot.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Great pic. Where is that?

Those old engines might actually be re-buildable....


25 posted on 02/10/2011 1:19:00 PM PST by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: Bumpus2

There is only one reason to push for this.

It would be because airline traffic will not be allowed except for top government and military folks.

Too expensive, too security intensive, people have stopped flying anyway, airlines can’t profit with oil shooting through the roof, government will run the airlines and don’t have to worry about being profitable, etc. There will be a bunch of different rationalization reasons thrown out depending who’s asking the question.

This is all being done to restrict movement of people in the country.


26 posted on 02/10/2011 2:04:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Grumplestiltskin

Somewhere in Alaska, I believe.

Google “railroad to nowhere” and then click images. Some good pics of those old wrecks in the snow, also.


27 posted on 02/10/2011 3:02:04 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: ez
".....that significant numbers of government officials have large stakes in the companies that will develop this technology."

Yup.

Rats = MSNBC (propagandists) = GE = GE locomotives = Immelt (kleptocrat) = Obama = Rats.

Repeat.

28 posted on 02/10/2011 3:08:40 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: MeganC

“Really? I recall that hybrids are subsidized, we had the ‘cash for clunkers’ program, ethanol for fuel is subsidized, and low income people in many states get subsidized maintenance on their cars.”

I’ve never heard of low income subsidized cars maintenance,’cash for clunkers’ has stopped and subsidized hybrids has just started and that will end were as subsidized ‘high speed rail’ will never end.


29 posted on 02/10/2011 6:16:36 PM PST by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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