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Barack Obama announces plan for high-speed railways in US
The Telegraph ^
| 4/16/2009
| Nick Greene
Posted on 04/16/2009 6:07:15 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Edited on 04/17/2009 12:47:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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A total of $8 billion (
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: williegreen
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To: bruinbirdman
If there was a market for this kind of infrastructure it would already exist.
What a complete asshat.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:08:56 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
To: bruinbirdman
Yeah...top of my list travel from Disneyland to Lost Wages.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:09:14 PM PDT
by
pointsal
To: bruinbirdman
Nice. More spending.
I have no problem with rail. But it needs to be provided by a private company. Kind of like CSX for freight.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:09:24 PM PDT
by
GatorGirl
(Proud Citizen of the Gator Nation)
This is Harry the Reedy One's bullet train from LA to Las Vegas.
yitbos
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:10:10 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds.")
To: bruinbirdman
so why does the British media..oh, never mind. Guess that's white house policy.
Anyway...damn, everything this guy does makes me very nervous.
To: bruinbirdman
Thats so he can get the populace to re education camps faster
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:12:17 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: bruinbirdman
Hey 0: Ya’ think the UAW is going to allow passenger rail to Detroit? Dumbass.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:12:33 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(0bama is to the presidency what Kenny G is to jazz.)
To: bruinbirdman
Should be able to get us to the gas chambers quicker.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:12:42 PM PDT
by
theymakemesick
(You may be a terrorist if you went to church last Sunday or think "shall not be infringed" means it)
To: bruinbirdman
Goody. Amtrak can derail at even higher speeds.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:13:02 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: bruinbirdman
$5 Billion? That should buy what, 1/2 mile or so of rail line?
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:14:35 PM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: bruinbirdman
Excellent - expensive, inflexible and unneeded. Doesn’t that sum up the Obama Administrations style perfectly?
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:15:01 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: bruinbirdman
More Oboondoggles. This will be the only way to travel after the Cap and Tax eliminates cars and planes.
Pray for America
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:15:08 PM PDT
by
bray
(Join the Rebel Republican Movement!)
To: bruinbirdman
Obama is a full-blooming idiot.
To: bruinbirdman
Unions will get all the $5 billion money, and these trains will be collecting spider webs soon after they are built.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:18:47 PM PDT
by
Edit35
(.)
To: bruinbirdman
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail!
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:19:37 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
To: al baby
Thats so he can get the populace to re education camps fasterNot the entire populace, just us "right wing extremists".
To: al baby
Thats so he can get the populace to re education camps faster That's the first thing that came to my mind. How sad. Didn't his buddy Ayers want to terminate 10 million capitalists?
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:21:50 PM PDT
by
kara2008
(Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
To: bruinbirdman
Since the Homeland Security document was released, when I heard about this today, the first thing that came to my mind was an express straight to the gulags for the right wing extremists.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:22:20 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(What fresh hell is this?)
To: bruinbirdman
This is some fanciful, pie-in-the-sky ...
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:25:19 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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