We need more trains because the Wee Wee likes to play Choo Choo
as an extra bonus...
who builds the rail? unions
you would work for the rail? unions
it’s really that simple. the unions put gobs of money into dems to get them elected, now they want ROI
We need more trains because the Wee Wee likes to play Choo Choo
I'd become accustomed to thinking of Will as part of our NWO/RiNO/Bilderberger problem.
“Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables.”
They love trains because they’re a centralized mean of transportation, easy to turn off in a whim. Turn a switch, and suddenly large amounts of people are confined to their borough. Instant social engineering.
And they are also convinced everyone else's car is destroying the planet. Remember Algore calling the interneal combustion engine a bigger threat to our survival than nuclear weapons?
Of course the magic-bullet trains, unlike say, an oil pipeline, in no way affect wildlife while whizzing through their habitat at a couple hundred miles per hour, powered by generators run on methane made from unicorn droppings.
If you don't want to play along their psychiatrists will send you off for adjustment. If that doesn't work there is always euthanasia, for your own good, of course. You can't possibly be happy if you're out of step!
2009 - $10.2 million in revenues, with 4.2 million riders?
It only cost about $2.50 to ride the train?
What did I miss?
The Chinese build ‘ghost towns’; Obama wants ‘ghost trains’. . .
The only high speed rails I’m interested in are roller coasters.
But back to cars, yes it is the freedom of them they hate.
Even more so?
General Aviation, i.e. Small Aircraft. Don't even get me started on how they have mucked that one up...
The problem with high speed rail is that sounds too good be true.
It makes promises that can’t be fulfilled and the price tag is so high that it reminds one of ponzi scams.
People who fall for it are suckers born every minute.
High speed rail gets the cattle cars to the re-education camps quicker.
The thing about high speed rail is that it would, indeed, be very nice to have a bullet train going from city to city. The problem is that the cost is just too damn high.
But the sums involved are so huge, that it is difficult to comprehend them. So people are dazzled by the shiny trains, with asking if it will cost $50 Million, $50 Billion or $50 Trillion, because those three numbers are pretty much the same, anyway.
I try to explain it that at a certain point, it is not worth the money. It is difficult for a Liberal to grasp that concept.
In 1982, I took AMTRAK from Gainesville GA (north of Atlanta) to New Orleans. It cost right at half of an airline ticket, and it took some 16 hours to make the trip.
It was like riding a Greyhound bus with a slightly cleaner clientele.
Forget rail travel (and air travel too!). If I can’t drive it, I’m not going, barring emergencies.
Without even looking, I’m betting this is on the order of global warming. The scams are going to be popping up like fleas in medieval times. Control of trillions has slowly gained ground until it now controls everyone and everything uncontrolled by principle, truth, honor, integrity and every other descriptive word on the side of nobleness and good.
In simple terms, the laws of economics are somehow out the window with the baby and the bathwater. All in the name of spend spend spend like there is no tomorrow, and for sure there will not be a tomorrow that we can envision if this comes to pass.
Now I can view the link.
Why is this being debated? Can’t the Republicans in the House call it DOA and have a nice little savings for the budget without “the pain” of real budget cuts (in politic-speak), roughly equal to 1/3 of NASA’s budget each year?
The Congressional Republicans need to declare this scam DOA, be done with it, and look to the next area to cut, and the one after that, and after that, etc...and hopefully make it to entitlements sooner than later.
High speed rail is not a bad idea. It would replace much of the air travel which is becoming a very inefficient system. The problem is that rail should be built with private money and the fact that this is not the right time yet.
bttt
Liberals love trains because it’s how you heard and transport people to the work camps and the ovens.