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French government offers to absorb '€35 billion of railway debt' to end strike
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| 25 May 2018 11:36 CEST+02:00
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Posted on 05/25/2018 10:57:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
05/25/2018 10:57:29 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
That’s OK, they’ll just have the European Central Bank buy the bonds in their next quarterly round of Quantitative Easing.
Free printed money - problem solved!
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:00:58 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:02:20 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: Olog-hai
Is there anything the French won’t subsidize? They give Airbus unfair advantage, which leads many American airlines to use them over Boeing and other US companies.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:02:30 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
To: Olog-hai
If they can afford $41 billion dollars they ought to spend it on defense.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:03:08 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Olog-hai
I thought all those Euro railroads were swell and a model for the USA if we would only get smarter!/s
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:05:06 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If they can afford $41 billion dollars they ought to spend it on defense. $41B will buy a lot of white flags.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:05:08 AM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Task 1: Accomplished, Task 2: Hold them Accountable!)
To: Olog-hai
You mean passenger rail is not profitable?
Who’d a thunk it?
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:07:33 AM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: ltc8k6
Well, if the government would get out of the transportation business and just focus on security, private passenger rail might have a fighting chance. By similar measures, air travel isn’t profitable.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:17:48 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: So Cal Rocket
And glass-bottom boats to review the fleet with.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:19:52 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Olog-hai
Sacre bleu. I’m going on strike. Hopefully they’ll absorb my mtg. Merci beaucoup macron.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:31:15 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Olog-hai
Shut the railroads down, fire everybody and sell assets off to for profit companies.
Rioters to be given whiffs of grapeshot.
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posted on
05/25/2018 11:34:12 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Reno89519
“...They give Airbus unfair advantage, which leads many American airlines to use them over Boeing and other US companies.”
Airbus.
Where the computer regards the pilot as merely a voting member.
To: Olog-hai
California government offers to absorb '$35 billion of railway debt' to end strikeYou heard it here first!
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posted on
05/25/2018 12:09:18 PM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: Olog-hai
Socialism works. This is how it works.
To: Olog-hai
wait, i are cornfused... what does "The French government has agreed to absorb 35 billion in debt from the state railway SNCF" mean?
if it is a STATE railway, is it not already funded by the gooberment???
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posted on
05/25/2018 3:27:02 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: spintreebob
All that US revenue from the Paris Accords they were counting on . . .
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posted on
05/25/2018 6:29:40 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Retirement payment for 16 live crossing guard flagmen at every road crossing (4 per six hour shift) does run into money.
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posted on
05/25/2018 10:48:45 PM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
To: Chode
It’s funded by taxpayers.
Woodrow Wilson tried that sort of thing with the USRA. Then later on, we got stuck with Amtrak and Conrail; at least Conrail’s back in the private sector now, but under two oversized nigh-monopolistic railroad companies (CSX and Norfolk Southern).
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posted on
05/26/2018 9:20:30 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
“Well, if the government would get out of the transportation business and just focus on security, private passenger rail might have a fighting chance. By similar measures, air travel isnt profitable.”
Maybe wishing will make it profitable...
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posted on
05/26/2018 9:38:02 AM PDT
by
ltc8k6
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