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Posted on 10/14/2010 1:04:05 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Jim Robinson; Willie Green
Are you a Marxist, a socialist, or just born stupid?You and I independently came to the same conclusion.
That makes me feel better that maybe I was dead on.
To: Jim Robinson
Well said! Thanks for boldly blurting it out, we have been saying that to him for some time now, but in a softer tone.
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posted on
10/14/2010 2:52:06 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Jim Robinson
Are you a Marxist, a socialist, or just born stupid?Wow! I was going to 'report abuse' until I saw Who (capitalization intentional) posted that.
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posted on
10/14/2010 2:55:15 PM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. (J.I. Packer)
To: Willie Green
“Over 35 million Americans rely on some form of public tansportation to commute to work every weekday.”
Willie, Willie - most of those are urban, Big Sh*tty Liberals, not Americans.
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posted on
10/14/2010 2:56:12 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: Jim Robinson
Let me think...nope, I can’t decide.
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posted on
10/14/2010 2:59:55 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Ditter
I saw this thread earlier, but have just returned. I’ll be back as soon as the popcorn is done and the beer chilled. Hope I’m IBTZ.
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posted on
10/14/2010 3:10:45 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Willie Green
Metra served 77 million passengers in 2008, with ridership increasing an average of 1 percent per year since 2000. Its busiest line, the BNSF line between Aurora and Chicago, carries an average of 63,200 passengers each weekday. How much of Metra's operating expenses were subsidized by tax payers?
To: Buckeye McFrog
Trains have a CoF problem when it comes to stopping. Nasty Aero too.
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posted on
10/14/2010 3:14:11 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Jim Robinson; Willie Green; jazusamo
Are you a Marxist, a socialist, or just born stupid? Reminds me of the two by four and the mule...
A man sold a mule to a farmer and promised that as long as the farmer was nice and polite to the mule, the animal would perform any task without hesitation. For months the farmer politely tried to get the mule to work but the stubborn animal wouldnt do a thing. Finally, fed up, the farmer called the man who sold him the animal and complained that no matter how polite he was he got no cooperation. The man told him hed come over to help.
The man showed up at the farm and asked the farmer what he wanted the mule to do. The farmer said he wanted the mule to plow his field. As the farmer watched, the salesman walked up to the mule hit him on the head with a two-by-four hard. He then calmly and politely asked the mule to please plow the farmers field. The mule went right to work.
Shocked, the farmer exclaimed to the salesman that he told him to be nice and polite to the mule to get him to do anything, yet he had hit him on the head with a chuck of wood. The salesman replied that he was polite, but he first had to get the mules attention.
WILLIE BOY
Jim, you make a damn good two by four! LOL!
To: Jim Robinson; Willie Green
Hey Jim, please don’t zot Willie. He’s sort of our pet.
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posted on
10/14/2010 3:52:09 PM PDT
by
Notary Sojac
("Goldman Sachs" is to "US economy" as "lamprey" is to "lake trout")
To: smoothsailing
LOL! Now that’s funny. :-)
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posted on
10/14/2010 4:07:24 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: dearolddad
How much of Metra's operating expenses were subsidized by tax payers?
This is all I could find quickly. It is from the 2008-2009 budget.
The RTA sales tax is 1.25% in Cook County, and 0.75% in the collar counties. One-third of the sales tax collected in the collar counties (i.e. 0.25%) is distributed directly to the counties and the county boards may use that money for transportation or public safety purposes.
A new distribution of revenues is prescribed, essentially leaving the distribution of the sales taxes collected at the old rates as is (by references to "85% of 80% of the receipts from those taxes collected within the City of Chicago" and the like) and then, after certain funds described below are set aside, the remainder is allocated 48% to CTA, 39% to Metra and 13% to Pace.
Of course you need a lot of money when your CEO is forging signatures of the board of directors and embezzling something around half a million dollars. We will never know how much he took because before he could testify he stepped in front of a METRA train and got splattered all over the roadbed. Funny how often that happens in Chicago.
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posted on
10/14/2010 4:58:09 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Willie Green
utter garbage.
it does not take into account, car rentals, taxis, or sub transportation.
If anything this is the frieght commercial reframed for the BS about slave rail.
If it is that efficient private industry would have done this already. Passenger trains have no place in the modern world.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:04:15 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Willie Green
willie, here’s an idea. Just shut your pie hole and ride the damn train. Simple enough for you?
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:26:33 PM PDT
by
davetex
(All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
To: Jim Robinson; mckenzie7; francky; The Doctor; router899; Qbert; Diapason; xzins; HushTX; T bench; ..
The answer to the Green idiocy:
Drill, baby, drill!! Weve got plenty of oil.
Go get 'em Jim!
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posted on
10/14/2010 10:25:13 PM PDT
by
narses
( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
To: Jim Robinson
You just now figuring that one out?
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posted on
10/14/2010 10:29:58 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
To: Willie Green; Jim Robinson
Over 35 million Americans rely on some form of public tansportation to commute to work every weekday. 10M in NYC, another 5-10M in LA, several million more in Chicago.
Doesn't leave much for the rest of the country, and the argument fails.
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posted on
10/15/2010 4:55:48 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Jim Robinson
Trains don’t save oil, Jim. They’re pushing a rail in Cincy. It goes from a point A to a point B that might make sense for those who live right on that route or just a few blocks from the stops it might make. Other than that, how are they going to get around???
They’ll have to rent a car, hire a taxi, ride a bus (if available) and all that will take time and oil.
I’ll also have to do car, taxi, or bus to the location where I get aboard IF I ever want to be in those neighborhoods to those destinations.
I can jump in my car and get just about anyplace in the city in 30 minutes. The other sounds like a 1.5 - 2 hour process that ends up using vehicles anyway.
Factor in vehicles to final destination and time lost, and you get a non-starter.
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posted on
10/15/2010 6:56:38 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
To: xzins
Since the advent of standard shipping containers, railroads have been less useful for moving goods. It will work if the ports have direct rail connects but most of the destinations do not have one and it is inefficent to move the containers more than once from source to destination when a truck will do.
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posted on
10/15/2010 7:04:42 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Willie Green; All
Willie I have been hearing about oil going out since the 70’s... In fact I have heard Oil was suppose to be out now..
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posted on
10/15/2010 3:31:53 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(President Obama: The Crybaby in Chief...)
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