Posted on 06/22/2007 12:51:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You Texans need to find a way to impeach this snake Perry.”
I think that this guy Perry and Mayor of San Francisco Newsome are cut from the same bolt of cloth.
Impeachment is too soft for Perry. Gov. Goodhair is well on his way to transforming the state into Texifornia.
I would like say what many of us retired dumbasses think, but I'd probably be arrested and sent to Iraq.
Bravo! It took only three comments to reach the correct answer!!!
“all”...
Nitpick.
I, of course, have no idea what you are thinking -- but what this "retired dumbass" is thinking would probably put me in the cell next to yours... '-}
The United States is the only industrialized nation whose freight railroads are privately owned and operated. The land to build the railroads was acquired by exercise of eminent domain. A group of investors would seek and receive a charter from the state government to build a route from point A to point B. Much of the funding for these projects came from European state banks (Bank of England in particular). This investor driven approach to serving a legitimate public need was used because the government did not have and could not obtain the capital necessary to build the railroads. I imagine there are not many freepers who would support nationalization of the railroads.
Does a proposed project serve a legitimate public use? If so then why does it matter who owns it?
Why should We allow foreign entities to profit from the sweat of our citizens when there are many in this country who could finance the project?
Why is it a bad idea?
A lot of our military hardware is shipped to port via the railroad. Suppose a country, lets say China for example, owned the rail lines. Might there be a major problem if We went to war with said country?
Yes I know the Feds could step in during such an occurrence but, it wouldn’t be an easy transition considering the Chinese could throw a monkey wrench in the computers systems, etc.
You are correct. There are a number of U.S. firms that could finance the project. At a higher price. So why are you suggesting we sweat our own citizens in order to keep a foreign firm from profiting off the sweat of our own citizens?
“So why are you suggesting we sweat our own citizens in order to keep a foreign firm from profiting off the sweat of our own citizens?”
2 words> Tech support
Anything I’ve ever had the pleasure of dealing with that has been outsourced = BS.
Plus, judging from some of the work I’ve seen foreign companies do, I’ll pass.
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