Could the US crack high-speed rail?

[catocom]

ok, if you say so, it must be true...

 

[Winky]

it's gotta be true
I saw it on the internets

 

[Cerise]

Highway Star

 

[2minkey]

ok, if you say so, it must be true...

cop out number 987. way to escape responsibility from explaining your own ideas!

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Why would someone pay ~$200 for a California train LA to SF when they can fly for ~$60?

 

[Winky]

free trains?

no thanks I'll just drive my car

 

[2minkey]

because planes pollute much more than trains. IT's ALL ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY FOLKS!!!

 

[catocom]

cop out number 987. way to escape responsibility from explaining your own ideas!

#998
I can't explain, 'cause you can't understand.
I'm from Mars, and I think you must be from Venus.

 

[2minkey]

i don't understand WHAT? your "oh well it's too corrupt" defeatism? if we let the possibility of corruption in everything that ever happens rule us we'd be fucking paralyzed... like you...

 

[Winky]

IT's ALL ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY FOLKS!!!

aw crud I thought it was about us all going back to live
in an Algore pre-fossil fuel kind of Utopia.

 

[2minkey]

fuckyeah man! it's the new religion!

many universities now offer an MBA in sustainable business.

= we is fucked.

 

[Gonz]

Let me get this straight. 2minkey, you think the federal government should subsidize, or outright own & operate, an interstate rail transporatation line. Is that correct?

 

[Winky]

Uncle Sam moves you

yup Gonz that is it in a nutshell

Why not, they've already taken over your healthcare

Minx doesn't mind he's part of the one percent that isn't
going to have to participate, he's got a waiver!

 

[catocom]

i don't understand WHAT? your "oh well it's too corrupt" defeatism? if we let the possibility of corruption in everything that ever happens rule us we'd be fucking paralyzed... like you...

I guess you haven't been paying attention the last few years.
Here's a news flash for ya then....
We ARE paralyzed.

 

[Winky]

corruption in everything

No that only applies to government

In private business firstly they have to serve the customer
(assuming they have customers) and make a profit
and any private business that is totally corrupt will surely fail. (see GM)

For gawd's sake, if rail was so bloody great Amtrak would be showing a profit.

Minks I know yer not stupid so I guess you are simply 'pulling our chains'.

Amtrak's 2010 operating loss was $437.5 million
for those in Rio Linda that's .437 billion

Just try to imagine how much fuckin' money Osambo's train to hell could lose every year!

 

[2minkey]

Let me get this straight. 2minkey, you think the federal government should subsidize, or outright own & operate, an interstate rail transporatation line. Is that correct?

um no buttsurfer get a grip.

 

[Winky]

How can Fed-Ex, DHL and UPS show a profit
while the U.S. Postal Service loses 3.1 billion in one quarter
and still stays in 'business'?

There is only one correct answer.

Privatize!

 

[2minkey]

yep and that's about the extent to which private industry is willing to extend itself in terms of infrastructure development and short-term costs.

learn from it.

bitch.

 

[Winky]

infrastructure development? what the fuck is that?

is that about all them bridges that are falling down?

 

[Gonz]

looks like minx has arrested development...if it ain't government, it's just fine