Wasting a lot of money on trains is an obsession with liberals. One, it is a good way to transfer money to their union paymasters. Two, it enables them to feel that they are doing their part to turn America into Europe. I mean, europe has a lot of trains, so we should too.
The one thing liberals hate is cars. Cars represent freedom. Freedom to live where you want and do what you want when you want to. Those are troubling concepts for most liberals. They would like you to have to get the government's permission to move, change jobs or stay out late at night. Forget about smoking a cigar.
Cars enable the suburban lifestyle that is considered by most people their birthright. For liberals it is an abomination. They want people to be jamed into central cities, arranged bySoviet-style central planning. After all, in europe most people live like that so it has to be a good idea.
I will admit the I-95 corridor from Richmond to Boston is at or above its capacity to handle traffic. One good idea would be to force trucks off the hghway and onto rail, but that won't happen. So, we need to either build another road or lay some high speed rail track. Neither will happen. It takes decades these days to do a simple bridge repair or build a tunnel. Somehow our forefathers were able to build the Golden Gate bridge, the George Washington bridge, Manhattan skyscrapers, numerous big dams and the interstate highway system in less time than we have spent trying to build a stinking fence on the mexican border. Oh yeah, they also sent some guys to the moon. Think we could do any of that stuff today? I don't.
The one thing liberals hate is cars. Cars represent freedom. Freedom to live where you want and do what you want when you want to. Those are troubling concepts for most liberals. They would like you to have to get the government's permission to move, change jobs or stay out late at night. Forget about smoking a cigar.
Cars enable the suburban lifestyle that is considered by most people their birthright. For liberals it is an abomination. They want people to be jamed into central cities, arranged bySoviet-style central planning. After all, in europe most people live like that so it has to be a good idea.
I will admit the I-95 corridor from Richmond to Boston is at or above its capacity to handle traffic. One good idea would be to force trucks off the hghway and onto rail, but that won't happen. So, we need to either build another road or lay some high speed rail track. Neither will happen. It takes decades these days to do a simple bridge repair or build a tunnel. Somehow our forefathers were able to build the Golden Gate bridge, the George Washington bridge, Manhattan skyscrapers, numerous big dams and the interstate highway system in less time than we have spent trying to build a stinking fence on the mexican border. Oh yeah, they also sent some guys to the moon. Think we could do any of that stuff today? I don't.
