1 posted on
03/08/2012 10:43:37 AM PST by
landsbaum
To: landsbaum
(Excerpt) Read more at orangepunch.ocregister.com ... Nah, I'll pass.
Can you summarize?
To: landsbaum
High Speed Rail = A train wreck
To: landsbaum
Politicians love to allocate money for programs. Most programs are simply fronts that allow them to get to the money, to skim it, to give it to their supporters who in turn, give it right back.
4 posted on
03/08/2012 11:16:24 AM PST by
ryan71
(Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
To: landsbaum
Politicians love to allocate money for programs. Most programs are simply fronts that allow them to get to the money, to skim it, to give it to their supporters who in turn, give it right back.
5 posted on
03/08/2012 11:22:06 AM PST by
ryan71
(Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
To: landsbaum
And where was the Orange County Register when a Republican started a program that cost billions and began with a four lane superhighway built in rural Kansas and Missouri?
Was that a boondoggle? Was the government coercing people from speedy, comfortable, and privately operated passenger trains onto government subsidized Interstate highways at the behest of the oil companies and auto manufacturers who were later convicted of a conspiracy to end privately operated public transit systems?
High speed rail *could* be privately run - like it almost was in Texas - but the lawsuit industry has effectively made such private enterprises impossible. So, like highways and airports, high speed rail can only be built by government. That’s not to say it can’t later be privatized just like some Interstate highways were.
6 posted on
03/08/2012 11:55:00 AM PST by
MeganC
(No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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