Bump!
Are there any public transportation schemes in America that actually make more money than they are subsidized?
I totally agree with the articles premise
A great editorial. Filled with pesky facts sure to irritate Bambots...
Thanks for posting, neverdem. HOORAY Larry!
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Bravo!
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I seriously doubt obama has ever driven a car down any highway.
This is a result of 80+ years of government projects that, while often amazing and fascinating and even wonderful in the minds of the susceptible, took money out of the productive (ie., private) sector and used it for whatever the politicians thought would be most appropriate . . to win votes. As Bastiat might have remarked, it's an example of the seen versus the unseen; we only see what was accomplished, not what might have been done had the same resources been directed elsewhere, as dictated by the market.
It will take a massive educational campaign if we are ever to reawaken the public to the advantages of having private enterprise instead of government bureaucrats and politicians planning, financing, constructing and operating--for profit--such things as hydro power plants, railroads, highways, airports and even space exploration.
I can't locate the exact quote, but Henry Ford once suggested, in jest, a solution to the road congestion that accompanied the great number of cars he and other automakers were producing for the public: Let the government take over building the automobiles while private enterprise builds the roads.
A man well ahead of his time . .
“Investment” is a CODEWORD for “Spending”
Just like all other slick democrat catchphrases:
“affirmative action” = “state-sanctioned racism against Whites”
“diversity” = codeword for “non-whites”
So?
What difference does it make?
He IS the President now; and WON'T be the President in '16.
We need to STOP or slow down anything ELSE he tries to do; while attempting to REVERSE stuff he's already done!
In Indiana, it was a canal that did us in.
(We've seem to have FORGOTTEN that little lesson from history!)
Wonderful article, Larry!! Really excellent. I saw it in print yesterday, and toyed with the idea of posting excerpts from it. But neverdem did it, fine job.
Slightly off topic, BO Plenty is as wrong about “you didn’t build that” as he is about Trayvon Martin. There we have a thug who was caught in school, and legally should have been in juvenile detention, but the school didn’t want to punish “too many” thugs with the superficial characteristic of looking "like Obama’s imaginary son.” And the result is that Zimmerman was mugged, and Martin was killed. This administration responds by insisting even louder that “too many blacks are being punished.”