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Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by Sockfucker -
As C.J. Cregg said, infrastructure isn't sexy....
But Kucinich is right, plenty of things in our infrastructure that are just waiting to be done....Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth -
....and you have to be smart on what infrastructure you build. Building a bridge to nowhere just to create some jobs is still a bridge to nowhere.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Shovel ready projects? And yet nothing's been done. Dennis should explain all those roadside "brought to you by Stimulus Regime" signs at $10,000 apiece.
Fuck the stimulus regime: quit fucking around, quit talking about the future, quit promising spin-off bullshit from bullshit technology funded from bullshit climate-science and bullshit global climate bills nobody but the smallest manufacturers would be subject to. China, India, Germany and Russia are laughing at this bullshit!
Why this Obama regime won't legislate and balance the budget I don't know. They only know how to spend and pay off their banker buddies and screwing the taxpayer over.Comment
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Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee RothComment
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Or at least read a fucking book about it, while you spend all goddamn day in the library.Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerComment
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Infrastructure waits for nothing.. try driving out of Ohare - fucking roads everywhere are complete rubble, and they charge you up the yingyang to drive on it!Comment
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And there's your problem - toll roads. Or in other words private corporations doing things they have no business doing, such as owning a highway.
And why do such things exist? Because right wing libertarian jackasses don't think infrastructure is important, so they want to privatize the roads, the schools, the utilities, and yes, even the goddamn fire departments (see the recent tragedy in Crossburn County KY)
You mortals are going exactly the opposite way of what you should be doing with that sort of thing.Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerComment
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I agree. I lived in upstate New York and hated the toll roads. I don't mind paying a fuel tax and having the government provide the roads. It's the best way to provide them and those who buy the most fuel use the roads the most so the tax is fair.
If the government provides decent, working infrastructure, the private businesses all benefit from it. One reason India will never be a world economic superpower is they are still using a 100 year of plus railroad system the British put in and their roads are shit. Without modern roads and railroads, you aren't shit.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Let's look at industries privatization screwed up. The phone system. When Reagan broke up Ma Bell it created a nightmare and the quality of service went to shit. The government at one time provided some good schools. Of course they have donkey fucked it the last 30 years but traveling around the world and seeing not everyone had access to education, I always thought the US public schools were one of the country's great assets. We just let them go to shit but at one time that government system was the envy of the world.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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I really wish high-speed rail would finally get going....
I wouldn't mind at all to take a bullet train to Florida, or hell, to the West Coast....
Even the mid-line models run about 160MPH, like the Bullet Train I rode in Tokyo in the '80's....Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee RothComment
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Yeah, there's really no reason why China should have trains that go 300 mph before the US does. And yet they do.Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerComment
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Yeah, but think about bureaucracy in the U.S. For one reason or another, some senator would demand that the public has access to the brakes via cord running the length of the train. So that means you and your family get to leave the tracks at 200 M.P.H. because some nitwit with a baseball hat on backwards thought he spied a woodchuck.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen HawkingComment
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