[Willie Green]

Such as our Interstate Highways and Air Traffic control system.

What's the matter, Mr. Lucky?
Are you too intellectually lazy to finish your sentences and tell the truth???

[Mr. Lucky]

Actually, I was thinking of the very New York to Chicago rail line which now handles the Amtrak service you seem to like so much. (The route, by the way, is 960 miles in length, not the 780 you imagined).

When there was a real world market demand, the privately owned New York Central operated the 20th Century Limited in 15 1/2 hours, and it always ran on time. Now that the government operates the service, the Lake Shore Limited is scheduled at 19 1/2 hours and is never on time.

A smarmy demeanor is a poor substitute for knowing what your talking about.