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VIDEO - Boondoggle in the Motor City: Detroit's Train to Nowhere
Cap Con ^ | 10/14/2010 | Reason TV

Posted on 10/14/2010 11:16:58 AM PDT by MichCapCon

VIDEO - Detroit's current "light rail" system has been called a “Horizontal Elevator to Nowhere” and the “least cost-effective transit project in the last 20 years.” So what's the response to this epic disaster of central planning from the political class? To build more, of course.

(Excerpt) Read more at michigancapitolconfidential.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: detroit; kochindustries; lightrail; michigan; reasontv; solongwillie

1 posted on 10/14/2010 11:17:04 AM PDT by MichCapCon
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To: MichCapCon; cripplecreek; MaryFromMichigan; PGalt; magslinger; grellis; Kieri; Darren McCarty; ...

MI ping on Detroit light rail


2 posted on 10/14/2010 11:17:45 AM PDT by MichCapCon
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To: GeronL

Ping.


3 posted on 10/14/2010 11:27:11 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: MichCapCon

The video at the bottom of the linked page, Governor Cristi (sp?) changing the education system in N.J. is even better.

I would like to see him make a run for POTUS.


4 posted on 10/14/2010 11:31:12 AM PDT by mark3681
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To: MichCapCon

Motorless City Madness.

The city that is half ghost town needs mass transit?


5 posted on 10/14/2010 11:37:56 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: MichCapCon

you’re not gonna ping Willie?


6 posted on 10/14/2010 11:42:07 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: MichCapCon; Willie Green

Willie, it’s a choo-choo! It’s taxpayer raped dollars! Just you thing!


7 posted on 10/14/2010 11:42:28 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: MichCapCon; Willie Green

Willie, it’s a choo-choo! It’s taxpayer raped dollars! Just your thing!


8 posted on 10/14/2010 11:42:45 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: MichCapCon
Gosh, do you suppose this crap played a role in that mess?

Who's your baby's Daddy?

The following are all replies that Detroit women have written on Child Support Agency Forms in the section for listing 'Father's Details,' or putting it another way... Who's your baby's Daddy? These are genuine excerpts from the forms. Be sure to check out #11, it takes 1st prize and #3 is runner up.

1. Regarding the identity of the father of my twins, Makeeshia was fathered by Maclearndon McKinley I am unsure as to the identity of the father of Marlinda, but I believe that she was conceived on the same night.

2... I am unsure, as to the identity of the father of my child as I was being sick out of a window when taken unexpectedly from behind. I can provide you with a list of names of men that I think were at the party if this helps.

3. I do not know the name of the father of my little girl. She was conceived at a party at 3600 East Grand Boulevard where I had sex with a man I met that night. I do remember that the sex was so good that I fainted. If you do manage to track down the father, can you please send me his phone number? Thanks...

4. I don't know the identity of the father of my daughter. He drives a BMW that now has a hole made by my stiletto in one of the door panels. Perhaps you can contact BMW service stations in this area and see if he's had it replaced.

5. I have never had sex with a man. I am still a Virginian. I am awaiting a letter from the Pope confirming that my son's conception was ejaculate and that he is the Saver risen again.

6. I cannot tell you the name of Alleshia's dad as he informs me that to do so would blow his cover and that would have cataclysmic implications for the economy I am torn between doing right by you and right by the country.. Please advise.

7. I do not know who the father of my child was as they all look the same to me.

8. Tyrone Hairston is the father of child A. If you do catch up with him, can you axe him what he did with my AC/DC CDs? Child B who was also borned at the same time..... well, I don't have clue..

9. From the dates it seems that my daughter was conceived at Disney World. Maybe it really is the Magic Kingdom .

10. So much about that night is a blur. The only thing that I remember for sure is Delia Smith did a program about eggs earlier in the evening. If I had stayed in and watched more TV rather than going to the party at 8956 Miller Ave , mine might have remained unfertilized.

11. I am unsure as to the identity of the father of my baby, after all, like when you eat a can of beans you can't be sure which one made you fart.

WHEN THE WEALTH IS REDISTRIBUTED, THESE PEOPLE WILL BE THE MAJOR RECIPIENTS.

9 posted on 10/14/2010 12:15:39 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (The upcoming election is the most important in our lifetimes!!! BE THERE!!!!!!!)
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To: MichCapCon

They are pushing a rail system here from an industrial part of Ann Arbor to Whitmore Lake to Howell. Why? Few go to that part of Ann Arbor since Pfizer left. It’s not downtown. No offense to Howell or Whitmore Lake, but outside of the lake, who visits those places that isn’t working or visiting friends or family?


10 posted on 10/14/2010 12:24:26 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Tim Walberg, a true conservative republican for Congress - http://www.walbergforcongress.com)
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To: MichCapCon
REPORT: "VIDEO - Boondoggle in the Motor City: Detroit's Train to Nowhere

Response: The fact that the "train" is not needed or useless is not relevant. It is wealth redistribution that is the point.

11 posted on 10/14/2010 12:33:44 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: MichCapCon; Leisler; GeronL
Anti-passenger rail propaganda produced by Reason TV is funded by Koch Industries.
They would oppose Detroit's light rail even in more prosperous circumstances.

Detroit is a dismal, crappy, rundown city... no doubt about it.
Attracting private sector investors to rehab their city for them is damn near impossible under any set of forseeable circumstances.
In the mean time, they have to do whatever they can to rehab the crappy slums themselves.
If building a light rail along Woodward helps provide urban developers a corridor to coordinate their meager private urban investment, then good for Detroit. The entire city is a vast wasteland. Woodward would be a good spot to clear the rubble for redevelopment. At least the right-of-way acquisition will be dirt cheap. LOL!

12 posted on 10/14/2010 12:36:04 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green

By all means raise the taxes locally to pay for it.

That should help attract “investment”.


13 posted on 10/14/2010 12:40:31 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: Willie Green; All
"Anti-passenger rail propaganda produced by Reason TV is funded by Koch Industries."

Notice that Willie Green Leftist didn't refute one point in the article. Look at the below picture of Willie's Anti=Koch friends, close friends. Know Willie by the friends he keeps. Un patriotic, anti-American leftists


14 posted on 10/14/2010 10:00:50 PM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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