High-Speed Fail ( trains )

Cato Institute ^ | • August 24, 2009 | Randal O'Toole

[kabumpo]

I agree.

[kabumpo]

but I find the train from Seattle to Portland a good deal, and also the train from NYC to D.C.

[mountainlion]

Shhhhh. Willie Green will be here soon

I think I made him mad already today.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...a nation of 120+ million people (with nine more currently under construction)...”
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That gave me a chuckle.

[Grizzled Bear]

The rail advocates go ballistic whenever anyone questions their fantasies, mostly engaging in ad hominem attacks (“you must be paid by the oil companies!”) or accusing skeptics of lying about rail...

There's something oddly familiar about this statement. Now where have I seen such an agrument...? There also seemed to be something about antirail and antiurban racism...

I'm at a loss! Can any of you folks help me out?

[Grizzled Bear]

You forgot to mention that it MAY work in all of the above AND where your choices are forcibly limited by a large central government.

You should add that, to nations such as China, citizens are government property to be used as a renewable resource. This is something America's left has been trying to emulate for decades.

[Grizzled Bear]

I think I made him mad already today.

Were you being an Antiurbanite, a train-hating bigot or a newbie?

;-)

[mountainlion]

Were you being an Antiurbanite, a train-hating bigot or a newbie?

Antiurbanite 90%
Train-hating 2%
Bigot 8%
newgie 0.4%

Sorry I just can't give 110%.

[Grizzled Bear]

LOL!

According to Willie, I’m delusional because I want to limit governmental involvement in my healthcare and transportation.

Willie welcomes a fascist marxist takeover of our nation, as long as his master throws him some table scraps. He doesn’t seem to understand that the type of government he would tolerate tends to kill the useless eaters. Willie’s own comments on his health does not indicate he’s very productive.

[mountainlion]

Libratards are so predictable. They have a hard time when you give them a bunch of facts. I searched for some key words and got a goldmine of facts against his arguments and now he is gone. I want to apologies to you guys for stopping your fun today.

[Grizzled Bear]

I want to apologies to you guys for stopping your fun today.

Don't sweat it.

It's no surprise Willie avoided this thread. Libs consistantly run from truth like a vampire flees holy water.

Do you really see Willie trying to add his propaganda to a thread where the original article includes;

The rail advocates go ballistic whenever anyone questions their fantasies, mostly engaging in ad hominem attacks (“you must be paid by the oil companies!”) or accusing skeptics of lying about rail...

Any post by Willie would simply confirm the article's veracity.

[mountainlion]

Now Green Willie posted a airport scanner article.

[Grizzled Bear]

Willie doesn’t realize, or chooses to ignore, that if his dream is realized, and people are forced to use rail instead of air or passenger car, his trains would become a very attractive terrorist target.

After a few incidents such as the terrorist bombing on the British trains, these same machines would show up at railroad platforms.

Although the idea of going on that thread and tweaking Willie’s nose is amusing, I think I’ll leave him to languish in his delusions.

[mountainlion]

2700 pounds of Dynamite caught fire in a rail car in Boulder Colorado in 1907 and blew up when the water form the fire department hit the car. It killed 7 and broke windows all over Boulder. Now they have Propane tanker cars that can wipe out a 1 mile radius and they will have 20 of them per train. OUCH