Originally Posted by
CyBeR
Republicans are just opposed to anything that involves a government. Ignore them, or find yourself in a world where nothing gets done. Some projects require serious heaps of cash on a very long-term investment for the public good. Exactly the sort of thing governments are for..
You are 100% correct. Amtrak is a great example of govt efficiency. It has lost money every single year it has been in operation. Kudos govt.
USPS loses billions ever year. Kudos again govt.
Social Security and Medicare. They're not losing billions, nah that's chump change. They're in the losing trillions business.
But hey, let's spend a few more hundred billion or a couple of trillion building trains that nobody wants. After all govt is so good at managing large scale projects, they're sure to get it right. The Big Dig was only 300% over budget, but that's not likely to happen again right? Govt has become so lean and mean over the past few years there's no way it could possibly piss money away anymore.
Just ask China how good high speed trains are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...WRE_story.html
Or other countries that train groupies drool over...
"Such “shortfalls” are all too common. Japan’s bullet trains needed a bailout in 1987. Taiwan’s line opened in 2007 and needed a government rescue in 2009. In France, only the Paris-Lyon high-speed line is in the black. "