Go back to my original post, which you misunderstood as my having asked you to pay for my ‘comfort’. I stated that I, personally, enjoy the experience of travelling by train, and that I found the assertion in the original article that some of the new high-speed rail systems in Europe are now proving to be financially profitable an interesting point.
Somehow you found this offensive - which I guess, says more about you than about me. Just how is pointing this out ‘attacking you’? If you make a point I disagree with, sure, I’ll post my disagreement and explain it. We can then have a (hopefully) civilized discussion on it.
But FTR, I largely agree with your last post: this isn’t something that government should be stepping in and paying for. More research is needed into whether such a system could ever be profitable in the US. Where we perhaps differ is simply in the fact that I’m not convinced that at some point in the future, the market may not indeed move forward on its own on this. The train is still evolving and I don’t believe it is necessarily yet consigned to the dustbin of history.
This is merely a personal opinion: time may well prove me wrong. But I find it odd that some on this site find such an opinion somehow ‘un-conservative’ and thus offensive. Thus my comment - are you simply looking for a stick to grab the wrong end of?