but all those train lines are going out of business because they cant competeSo....all those decades the US was fairly smothered in an extensive and reliable passenger rail transit network, up to the 1950s,Mass rail transit is nothing more than a tool for socialists. Socialists hate American individualism....which is the enemy of their collectivism. What could be more free and individual than you in your own car? Thats why socialists hate cars...cars represent indvidual freedom....for socialists the less cars the better. They would rather you lived in a dense population center where they can control you. Because you know .socialists are smart and they know what is best for you
ObamaDrama cracked a joke that by using rail transit one wouldnt need to take his shoes off .what an idiot.....mass rail transit would become a prime target for terrorists .hey BO remember the train and subway bombings in Europe? ..and who is going to pay for the additional high cost of protection on top of the high cost to build plus the high cost of upkeep?
And what working person on vacation is going to take a train across the country when he can fly in 1/10th the time? Even at 150 mph it will still take at least 20 hours to cross the country...that's a big waste of time when you'd rather be spending your week off at Disneyland....we are not like Europe....America is BIG....maybe that's why not too many use Amtrak...besides, travel in a car is very comfortable...you can stop at McDonald's any time you feel like it...
In fact, who is going to take the train anywhere when it's easier to drive where you need to go? When you need your car to do errands after work or you want to go someplace other than where the rail lines go? Unless you live in high population areas where it makes sense forget it .but here we get back to the radicals goal .they want us to live in dense rabbit warrens .they hate suburbia and small town America .you know where the rednecks live they want to force us all into regulated green urban population centers
Forcing rail transit on America is nothing more than another socialist commie step to control us and take away our liberties .and Maobama is leading the way...
we were a nation of "Socialists" ? All those robber barons were actually closet commies ?
I don't think we should 'force' rail transit upon any city or region, but IF we can invest in such a way to reduce our dependence upon oil, make transportation better, that is good.
Trains are more safe and more efficient than cars and trucks and planes, you realize.
And are you aware that the budget for building and maintaing the highway system is enormous ?
Isn't that socialist, putting all that government attention and money into roads and highways ?
And levess and dams and bridges and all forms of govenment assisted transportation would be socialist as well.
What is NOT socialist to you ?
why should the government be taking them over and wasting tax dollars on runing a system that cant even stay in business