So High Speed Rail isn't needed?
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Seymour Flops
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There is a common fallacy of Democrats asking "why can't we have ______ like _______ ?" It might be high speed rail like Europe, healthcare like the UK, or cheap trannie hookers like Thailand or Brazil.
The problem is that we cannot just pick one aspect of another country and make ours just like theirs. We would have to re-create the conditions that allow those countries to have those things.
For example, Europe and their trains. They developed those systems while the United States was pouring our taxpayer dollars into those countries and they continue those systems while the U.S. spends billions of taxdollars on the defense of those countries..
Where will we find a country as wealthy and generous as the U.S. to fund and protect us that way? When we do find that benefactor, money will be freed up for high speed rail.
For us to be able to afford "free" medical care for "everybody," we would need to change our immigration policies to match the ones the countries who instituted those healthcare systems had at the time.
For the cheap ladyboys, we would have to impoverish our nation as Thailand and Brazil are impoverished, with a large population of desperately poor people. I know the Democrats intend illegal immigrants to be that, but at the same time, they give those illegals so many lucrative benefits that wearing a dress and doing the things Democrats want those guys to do for them isn't worth it.
It would be far cheaper than trying to change our healthcare or trains to match that of Europe to simply give everyone who wants European healtcare and trains a one-way ticket to Frankfurt, Germany, which is a railroad hub of Europe and let them ride the trains to wherever they choose to go.
The problem is that we cannot just pick one aspect of another country and make ours just like theirs. We would have to re-create the conditions that allow those countries to have those things.
For example, Europe and their trains. They developed those systems while the United States was pouring our taxpayer dollars into those countries and they continue those systems while the U.S. spends billions of taxdollars on the defense of those countries..
Where will we find a country as wealthy and generous as the U.S. to fund and protect us that way? When we do find that benefactor, money will be freed up for high speed rail.
For us to be able to afford "free" medical care for "everybody," we would need to change our immigration policies to match the ones the countries who instituted those healthcare systems had at the time.
For the cheap ladyboys, we would have to impoverish our nation as Thailand and Brazil are impoverished, with a large population of desperately poor people. I know the Democrats intend illegal immigrants to be that, but at the same time, they give those illegals so many lucrative benefits that wearing a dress and doing the things Democrats want those guys to do for them isn't worth it.
It would be far cheaper than trying to change our healthcare or trains to match that of Europe to simply give everyone who wants European healtcare and trains a one-way ticket to Frankfurt, Germany, which is a railroad hub of Europe and let them ride the trains to wherever they choose to go.
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Polishprince
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And the United States, quoting the great Moe Howard is "Spread Out!"
That's why rail in general, including high speed rail, can be more effective in much of Europe as well as the Empire of Japan- but isn't very efficient here in America.
Maybe this is the reason why libs want to push rail on a reluctant people. As a tactic to force middle class people out of the suburbs and exurbs, and to pack the people into the failed inner cities so that the middle class can bail them out as well as being more easy to control in the inner cities?
The progs are in concentrated areas. They would have to destroy millions of homes to get right of way. Current train routes would take many years to convert each new high speed rail line. The train in California zig zags. It will not attain maximum speed for long if it even achieves it.
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They do require rail route control.
i.e. an Eastbound freight train might be instructed to pull into the next side junction to allow a Westbound to go through, using the same track.
If they could they wouldn't be stuck taking the train.
And not one of the European rail networks makes money. There are TWO HSR systems, worldwide, that actually make money.
Name them.
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I think it's necessary. They can have the rails to extend to the borders to allow immigrants to go straight to the fields and straight back to the border when the shifts are over where they can cross back over into Mexico and spend the night there until the next morning to come back to work that morning by train. That there will be no reason for them to establish residency here in the US and the government will not have to put them into free housing paid by taxpayers and plus, it'll help out to improve the Mexican economy.At least according to trump. Apparently air fare is only $2.00
Which is good because I need to fly back to Kansas and get my ID so I can buy some milk here.
Trump Says High-Speed Rail Isn’t Needed Because ‘You Take an Airplane – It Costs You $2’
The president alleged that high-speed rail would be a less efficient and more expensive alternative than air travel, which in his estimation, costs $2.www.mediaite.com
“We’re gonna start a big investigation on that because it’s– I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. And it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, you don’t buy it. You take an airplane – it costs you $2. It costs you nothing. You take an airplane. But this got started. And if you have to, you drive, you can drive.”
We need them because there's no one here is willing to do that type of work for a low wage. And too many Americans are on drugs that isn't capable of doing any kind of job, that we need immigrants to work the fields so we can eat.
There are many companies that are having problems keeping employees to come to work on a daily basis. That it's so bad out there that the employees control the business because the companies are afraid to fire them because they need workers that will come to work
Show where I'm wrong, sport.
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11 killed, 2 hurt after test train crashes into workers in southwestern China
Chinese news outlet says preliminary investigations indicate crash may have occurred when workers headed onto the track early.
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No ... they require TRAIN traffic controllers
Did you think train drivers get to pick their routes?
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AZrailwhale
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There won’t be any grade crossings for vehicles and pedestrians. High speed rail is isolated.
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Europeans pay more taxes than Americans and have less n money to spend
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I suppose it could work out better if they built the tracks in underground tunnels where they wouldn't disturb the small town folks on the surface with noise pollution.
But that pushes the price way up, no?
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