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Brown: U.S. Should Fund High-Speed Rail
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| June 7, 2010
| Rep. Corrine Brown
Posted on 06/08/2010 9:18:54 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: subterfuge
I would hate to be associated with the likes of Corrine Brown. I would love it if creative private interests found a way to make rail travel a profitable option. It has untapped potential as the backbone of a new tourism and leisure industry, for example, rather than as a shabby socialist substitute for the Interstates. To force it on the country as a means of social engineering, which is what these hacks are trying to do, burns my butt. Plus, it won't work.
To: Willie Green
You can't point to ANY mode of transportation that doesn't require "gobs" of tax money to support. The difference, Willie, is your particular wet dream requires gobs of tax money from people who don't use it !
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:02:41 PM PDT
by
jimt
To: jimt
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:16:51 PM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Klaatu barada nikto)
To: dimk
*Why rail works in Japan?*
Because Japan is like, the size of California?
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:22:09 PM PDT
by
j-damn
To: Willie Green
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posted on
06/08/2010 4:53:02 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.)
To: Willie Green
Build it and they will come! Finance it (with your own money) and they will build.
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posted on
06/08/2010 5:08:15 PM PDT
by
meyer
(Big government is the enemy of freedom.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Private interests could make a rail system work—if the government would get out of the way. But it won’t, of course.
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posted on
06/09/2010 5:09:14 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: Willie Green
I don’t want to take a train or a bus to work.
Ever.
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posted on
06/09/2010 5:26:40 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
To: Little Ray
You can hop back and forth to work on a pogo stick for all I care.
Just as long as it doesn't deprive more productive commuters of the efficient passenger rail systems that THEY need to be more competitive.
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posted on
06/09/2010 5:40:56 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Klaatu barada nikto)
To: Willie Green
Just so long as I don’t have pay for the effin’ thing or subsidize their tickets.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:17:44 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
To: rlmorel
Karl Denninger on energy
hereenlightening
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:22:30 AM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: Little Ray
Fine... all you have to do is paste a Post-it® Note on your 1040A,
and the money will get spent somewhere else instead.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:29:07 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Klaatu barada nikto)
To: Sgt_Schultze
That is a GREAT link...I like the way the guy writes, too. I have never heard of him before, but that could just be me.
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:23:17 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: Little Ray
"...I dont want to take a train or a bus to work. Ever. I know what you mean. You could have to sit there and watch the "Amberlamps" guy get pounded to a pulp by the "I AM A MOTHERF***R" guy, and hope one of them doesn't pull out a gun and start shooting.
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:33:14 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: Willie Green
LOL...I try that every year, but I think they just increase my taxes to make up for pet projects I said I didn’t want the money spent on...
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:34:16 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: rlmorel
Karl writes every day.
Here's a link to page 1 of his site - I had sent you to the archives. A very interesting guy.
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:18:55 AM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: Sgt_Schultze
Yes! I LOVED is. It is EXACTLY what I would have put into words. As far as I know, everything he says is SPOT ON. His ridicule of ethanol is well founded, it is a stupid and wasteful effort. We should be building nuclear reactors, developing and exporting pebble bed technology, finding effective ways to extract shale oil and so on.
I am one of those who has long said that I would rather live in the vicinity of a oil derrick or a nuclear plant than one of this gargantuan windmills...
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posted on
06/09/2010 8:23:01 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: GrannyAnn
I was being sarcastic - Amtrak looses like $4 Billion a year
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posted on
06/09/2010 5:49:14 PM PDT
by
PMAS
To: PMAS
I knew you were being sarcastic - these boondoggle projects always cost taxpayers money to run. But, the companies who build them probably turn a profit. I’m not against a business making profits, I’m just against having the taxpayer foot the bill to run the damn things. Just like you!
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