To: newgeezer
It's all about jobs. How about if we just destroy the rail industry and replace it with millions of trucks and truckers. Now that's a labor intensive, job intensive, expensive way to move things around a hugh country like this.
127 posted on
06/04/2003 11:54:15 AM PDT by
biblewonk
(Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
To: biblewonk
How about if we just destroy the rail industry and replace it with millions of trucks and truckers.
Are you suggesting that the rail (passenger and freight) industry wasn't demolished by free market forces, but that the federal government intervened and propped up the trucking and bus industries by subsidizing the construction of the interstates, and by enforcing draconian anti-trust regulations on the railroads?
To: biblewonk
How about if we just destroy the rail industry and replace it with millions of trucks and truckers. Now that's a labor intensive, job intensive, expensive way to move things around a hugh country like this.It is hugh. And vey, vey series.
142 posted on
06/04/2003 12:01:17 PM PDT by
brewcrew
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