President Obama’s stimulus package of never ending debt threw an 8 Billion dollar carrot to be used for the building of high speed rail in Texas. It would be nice to have “Tomorrow Land’s” sleek bullet train features rocketing between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin; but at what price?
We don’t have the money! Don’t you get it; we don’t have the money! We are a nation of spoiled brats where anything we want or need must instantly materialize; just put it on credit and we’ll pay it off in installments. That 8 Billion dollars doesn’t exist, at least not in the real world; the bank account for America has already spent every penny we had as of April 26th; but I keep forgetting, we no longer use the antiquated system of having to show where money came from prior to spending it.
The Federal Government is going to jump start Texas’ high speed train package with 8 billion dollars; free money for a project that will bring us closer to the future, a place where rail transit should be instead of a bunch of rusty old cattle cars clickity-clacking past a row of cars waiting while the crossing arms hold up progress. We won’t need cars and it will be just as fast, or even faster than jumping on a jet plane.
Deborah Hastings, in an AP story posted on Daily Herald that came with this neat picture of a bullet train, pointed out the futility of implementing the dream of high speed rail as opposed to the reality which would, in all probability, be a total disaster both performance wise and monetarily. In spite of the huge difference between wanting the dream and throwing money at the endless pit, some folks just refuse to accept the enormous price we, our children and our grand children would end up paying for that which we cannot afford.
“The economic benefit is enormous, the president said. "Railroads were always the pride of America, and stitched us together. Now Japan, China, all of Europe have high-speed rail systems that put ours to shame."”
Excuse me; what economic benefit? Maybe this explains why Obama doesn’t see a problem with spending trillions, with a “T”, trillions of dollars which do not exist for social programs we cannot afford; he simply changes the words “excruciating inescapable debt” with “economic benefit”, passes a magic wand over the whole mess and nobody sees the shackled future of America.
“Railroads were always the pride of America”, railroads which made possible the great strides in industry which built America by making it profitable to move vast amounts of goods across the country. Obama couldn’t be talking about Amtrak because as a “for profit” passenger conveyance system Amtrak has required financial assistance each year just to stay in operation.
About the only “shame” Obama could be referring to would be how are heads hanging down low for spending money we flat out don’t have, for being so irresponsible in our spending as to create an America which will be in debt to the world for generations to come. Keeping up with the Jones just got a whole lot more expensive.
We don’t have the money! Don’t you get it; we don’t have the money! We are a nation of spoiled brats where anything we want or need must instantly materialize; just put it on credit and we’ll pay it off in installments. That 8 Billion dollars doesn’t exist, at least not in the real world; the bank account for America has already spent every penny we had as of April 26th; but I keep forgetting, we no longer use the antiquated system of having to show where money came from prior to spending it.
The Federal Government is going to jump start Texas’ high speed train package with 8 billion dollars; free money for a project that will bring us closer to the future, a place where rail transit should be instead of a bunch of rusty old cattle cars clickity-clacking past a row of cars waiting while the crossing arms hold up progress. We won’t need cars and it will be just as fast, or even faster than jumping on a jet plane.
Deborah Hastings, in an AP story posted on Daily Herald that came with this neat picture of a bullet train, pointed out the futility of implementing the dream of high speed rail as opposed to the reality which would, in all probability, be a total disaster both performance wise and monetarily. In spite of the huge difference between wanting the dream and throwing money at the endless pit, some folks just refuse to accept the enormous price we, our children and our grand children would end up paying for that which we cannot afford.
“The economic benefit is enormous, the president said. "Railroads were always the pride of America, and stitched us together. Now Japan, China, all of Europe have high-speed rail systems that put ours to shame."”
Excuse me; what economic benefit? Maybe this explains why Obama doesn’t see a problem with spending trillions, with a “T”, trillions of dollars which do not exist for social programs we cannot afford; he simply changes the words “excruciating inescapable debt” with “economic benefit”, passes a magic wand over the whole mess and nobody sees the shackled future of America.
“Railroads were always the pride of America”, railroads which made possible the great strides in industry which built America by making it profitable to move vast amounts of goods across the country. Obama couldn’t be talking about Amtrak because as a “for profit” passenger conveyance system Amtrak has required financial assistance each year just to stay in operation.
About the only “shame” Obama could be referring to would be how are heads hanging down low for spending money we flat out don’t have, for being so irresponsible in our spending as to create an America which will be in debt to the world for generations to come. Keeping up with the Jones just got a whole lot more expensive.
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