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Old 02-08-2011, 03:27 PM
 
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MmmK, lets put the whole nation further into hock so a fraction of the population can travel from California to Las Vegas on hi speed rail instead of the already exsisting avenues of car, bus or airplane.

How selfish you all sound.
Actually, How short sighted are you???

California and Nevada can deal with this, and last I checked BOTH States were part of the USA still.

Maybe you haven't enjoyed being stuck in traffic for 3 hrs. making a 10 mile commute that even on a good day is filled with potholes and broken sections of road but alot of us have.
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:29 PM
 
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Actually, How short sighted are you???

California and Nevada can deal with this, and last I checked BOTH States were part of the USA still.

Maybe you haven't enjoyed being stuck in traffic for 3 hrs. making a 10 mile commute that even on a good day is filled with potholes and broken sections of road but alot of us have.
Move closer to work or find a job closer to home.
Your commute isn't my responsibility

Common sense indeed
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:30 PM
 
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Wow that's an extremely high price tag!

56 Bil over 6 years.....That's almost 9 Billion per year!

Meanwhile the defense budget is 700 Billion per year.

I'm sure we couldn't find the money in our defense budget to pay for some infrastructure that would pay dividends for Decades.......let's just build 1 more bomber!

Palin/Joe The Plumber 2012
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:32 PM
 
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Wow that's an extremely high price tag!

56 Bil over 6 years.....That's almost 9 Billion per year!

Meanwhile the defense budget is 700 Billion per year.

I'm sure we couldn't find the money in our defense budget to pay for some infrastructure that would pay dividends for Decades.......let's just build 1 more bomber!

Palin/Joe The Plumber 2012
Good point, we can cut the defense budget too.
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:35 PM
 
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Good point, we can cut the defense budget too.
9 Billion divided by the 3000 Billion per year Federal budget....OMG

That's like .003 percent.!....Three more of those "deals" and it would almost be at 1%!

Good thing we have conservatives watching our money making sure we don't go into needless wars.

Let's just drive more, cause that doesn't cost us one single dime!...........Yea! Conservatism!

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Old 02-08-2011, 03:37 PM
 
Location: USA
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9 Billion divided by the 3000 Billion per year Federal budget....OMG

That's like .003 percent.!....Three more of those "deals" and it would almost be 1%!

Good think we have conservatives watching our money making sure we don't go into needless wars.

Let's just drive more, cause that doesn't cost us one single dime!...........Yea! Conservatism!
Haha.
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:38 PM
 
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Rather than spend a few trillion dollars on LR why not use the money to fix our roads and bridges?

No sense in building LR when people can't get to the train station.
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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9 Billion divided by the 3000 Billion per year Federal budget....OMG

That's like .003 percent.!....Three more of those "deals" and it would almost be 1%!

Good think we have conservatives watching our money making sure we don't go into needless wars.

Let's just drive more, cause that doesn't cost us one single dime!...........Yea! Conservatism!
As you've no doubt NOT seen from the video I posted, every single "project" like this, when the final tally is complete on cost, is nowhere near what the cost estimates said it would be.
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:38 PM
 
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Move closer to work or find a job closer to home.
Your commute isn't my responsibility

Common sense indeed
You must be kidding. As a pro-road advocate (gauging from your previous post), you surely can't be telling people they have to live and work in specific locations to use roads properly. That's the purpose of roads, or so I'm told by those who love their cars...you can live in paradise (in scenic, low-density locations) and work 50 miles away.

This is the problem with roads. They're immensely expensive to maintain, and the US has subsidized them for far too long. It's time to evaluate more long-term solutions (if any are left to meet the needs of a nation that's sprawled further than the mind can imagine). I'm not saying it's HSR. To be honest, we don't have adequate commuter and regional rail networks that aren't HSR.

We need something that uses very little fuel per passenger, transports people in a reasonable fashion (not stuck on an interstate for hours for a 10 mile commute, which isn't an unreasonable distance) and something that can actually be maintained (vs. millions of miles of roads).
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:50 PM
 
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If it is such an obviously great idea, where are the investors to make it happen?
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