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Joe Biden: 'They're gonna own our kids' without high-speed rail
Washington Post ^ | Alexandra Petri

Posted on 02/09/2011 1:16:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

Speaking about the need for high-speed rail, Vice President Joe Biden commented that, "If we don't get a grip, folks, they'll not only be teaching us, they're gonna own our kids."

What?

If I'd known that all it required to own someone's kids was to discourage him from supporting high-speed rail, I would be beating Angelina Jolie right now in the people's-kids-owning-game.

Leaving aside the numerous objections to high-speed rail, this seems like an odd thing to say under any circumstances. I understand that this makes it characteristic of Joe Biden. I think the most impossible quiz in the world would be something called, "Joe Biden Quote Or Something An Old Guy In a Sweater Says To You To Make Conversation At The Gas Pump." It's sort of a mouthful, but I think most of his remarks pass the test.

"I had a successful dump!"

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent....I'm not joking." (Something Biden actually said to an Indian-American man that was caught by C-SPAN)

"Big [verbing] deal!"

And now this one. Fail to get a grip, and they'll own our kids.

Things look pretty bleak for our kids, based on the remarks our public officials have been making. They are, apparently, going to be outsmarted, outcompeted, out-Sputniked, outparented, owned, transformed into robot slaves, outsourced, and forced to appear on the NBC comedy "Outsourced," all by people from another country who are marching back and forth doing calculus in the snow, or something.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biteme; boondoggle; broke; debt; highspeedrail; joebiden; rail; saywhat; spending; trains; willie
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Times like this is when I miss Willie Green
1 posted on 02/09/2011 1:16:17 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

ABC News’ Jon Garcia reports: In support of President Obama’s bid to “win the future,” America’s most famous Amtrak rider, Vice President Joe Biden, issued a stern warning about U.S. competitiveness in the high-speed rail game: “If we don’t get a grip, folks, they’ll not only be teaching us, they’re gonna own our kids.”

The “they” Biden is talking about are all the other countries in the world who are developing or expanding high-speed rail systems, including China, Japan, Spain and France.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/vp-biden-us-needs-to-get-a-grip-on-the-high-speed-rail-game.html


2 posted on 02/09/2011 1:17:12 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And they said Dan Quayle was stupid....


3 posted on 02/09/2011 1:17:20 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Related thread:

Biden Vows to Jump Canyon by Amtrak (Iowahawk)


4 posted on 02/09/2011 1:19:56 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

As usual decode what the RATS say and you can completely understand them.

They (the RATS) want a grip on all of us and they (the RATS) desperately want to own our kids.

Sheeesh - that one was easy. Give me a harder one!


5 posted on 02/09/2011 1:19:56 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Responsibility2nd

Complete idiots. We do not have the money to do this and borrowing it from China is a sure way for them to own us! DUH


6 posted on 02/09/2011 1:20:35 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Lurker

Our VP is a regular moron.

Time for him to go away in a giggle jacket!!


7 posted on 02/09/2011 1:20:43 PM PST by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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To: Lurker
In brief, here's what's wrong with all forms of mass transit, including Biden's rail: You're just a passenger. You're at the mercy of where "public" transit chooses to take you. And, typically, you're surrounded by menacing ghetto trash and subhuman debris babbling away in some third-world foreign tongue.

In contrast, with a car you're a driver. You control your own destiny and can go wherever you desire whenever you want.

It's abundantly obvious that Conservatives as lovers of liberty and personal freedom oppose mass transit, which is just another manifestation of Marxism.

8 posted on 02/09/2011 1:21:02 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

I am trying to find out what the Lib Obsession with these trains is all about. It is getting out of control. Who is paying them off?


9 posted on 02/09/2011 1:22:06 PM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They already own your kids, Joe. You sold them off to, “let’s see”. . . George Soros, China, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Union bosses, and maybe the mob. You and everyone around you have sold yourselves to the highest bidder.


10 posted on 02/09/2011 1:22:06 PM PST by mia
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t have any kids so I’ll keep driving my truck unhindered by the whims of unionistas.


11 posted on 02/09/2011 1:22:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Responsibility2nd

Stand Up Chuck!


12 posted on 02/09/2011 1:22:44 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Wait a minute. I thought that the Democrats wanted to KILL our children, not merely to own them. The latter is the goal of the Islamofascist terrorists; consider, for example, the enslavement of the non-Muslims and black Muslims in Islamic Republic of the Sudan. The Democrats now very clearly want to cosign to slavery whatever proportion of our posterity we refuse to kill.


13 posted on 02/09/2011 1:22:48 PM PST by dufekin (Name our lead enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamofascist terrorist dictator)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Vice President Biden, if you can put the beer down for a moment, please explain the business case for high-speed rail and how taxpayers will not subsidize the industry forever, like it is subsidized in every other country.


14 posted on 02/09/2011 1:23:01 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“If we don’t get a grip, folks, they’ll not only be teaching us, they’re gonna own our kids.” What?
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Not WHAT

WHO ???

Or WHOM ???


15 posted on 02/09/2011 1:23:21 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: screaminsunshine
I am trying to find out what the Lib Obsession with these trains is all about.

The plan to put us on them someday, to the camps.

16 posted on 02/09/2011 1:23:39 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Touch my tagline and I'll have you arrested)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They? WHO exactly is this fearsome, “they”...?

High-speed rail is in Japan, and now in China.

So the scary “they” are asians? Does this include gas-pumpers? Are they, too, “they”...? Does he hate asians?

MultiCulti has run amoke, sure but didn’t one of OUR most senior guys have to resign for the word, Macacca?

I find it interesting that only conservatives need fear falling victim to charges of insensitivity.


17 posted on 02/09/2011 1:24:33 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Responsibility2nd

If he’s worried about children, he had better become pro-life.


18 posted on 02/09/2011 1:24:40 PM PST by ducdriver (judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta. (Ps. 42))
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To: Responsibility2nd

Every filthy Muslim with a monkey wrench would destroy these easy targets along thousands of miles of unprotected track. It’ll never work in a multicultural hell hole society, but it’ll sure suck the money out of our blood.... which is the whole point.


19 posted on 02/09/2011 1:25:42 PM PST by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: screaminsunshine

My theory is that they govern by means of sitting in the dorm room and drinking bong water. (Well that and paying off friends and punishing enemies). But when there’s no apparent logical explanation - remember - bong water.

1. Ethanol.
2. Trains.
3. Electric cars.
4. Windmills.
5. Burying carbon underground.
6. Painting roofs of houses white.

The list goes on and on and on.


20 posted on 02/09/2011 1:25:49 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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