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A recession is an inevitability. Americans will have to get used to a huge reduction in their standard of living.
In order to mitigate some of the pain, Americans should invest in a program that would shift 85% of of all US freight from over the road trucks to rail.
Not one single job would have been lost, and it would have created nearly 3 Million good paying domestic jobs of all classes and types, everything from yard apes to maintenance, to clerks, software programs, IT people, foremen, managers, supervisors, accountants, assembly line workers and much more.
And those 3 Million jobs wouldn't even count the temporary short and long term construction projects necessary.
And when all was said and done, you'd have jobs that cannot be exported, you'd lower demand for diesel, resulting in lower farming costs resulting in lower food costs, combined with cheaper transportation that rail provides providing even lower costs for food and other consumer goods, plus not having trucks on the road tearing things up would eliminate congestion and reduce the need for continuous repaving of the same stretches of interstate over and over and over.
There is also a housing Bubble which will result in more foreclosures.
Americans should consider moving in with one another. I know security is an issue, but there are services that cater to this. www.sharedfamilyhousing.com is free and and has background checks.
If the government limited Welfare programs to people who were living in multi family units, and for only 1 family per unit, you would spend less.
These are the types of projects that people should be asking for.
Why don't they?
Last edited by Del Boy; 08-02-2013 at 11:15 AM..
Reason: Needs to Title to attract viewers. Highway system is idiotic when you have to continually repair it due to the trucks when you could convert it to rail and mitigate a number of issues.
If a truck driver loses his job, but another full time job is created, is a job lost or gained?
Perhaps, you are a product of your "publick eddicayshun" system.
Thomas Friedman said the same thing in his book "The world is Flat". In so many words he said "Millions of American jobs lost, but millions of jobs gained in China, its all relative."
Were you about to post your studies and calculations showing that would be the result?
Or are you still just waving your hands in the air and hoping really hard that it might turn out that way?
I forgot, in addition to lowering the cost for diesel, it frees up your heavy oil, so you can export more of it.
You do realize that the US cannot continue on its current path of spending and consumption. When the US pulls out of the middleast and abandons its current foreign policy, and oil is no longer traded in USD, you will experience signficant inflation.
Additionally, a bad season for crops, will send a ripple affect throughout your economy and may push some people, so reliant on credit over the edge. I imagine, food is a high priority on your list, considering you need it to live.
So you can choose between paying your mortgage or eating. I suppose you could eat mud and cardboard. This is another reason why Americans should consider renting out part of their house.
The Fair Housing Act does not apply, so you are free to choose who you want.
Or Americans could do nothing and continue on their same destructive path. At this point, the question will be, "How can Americans watch their reality TV when they are living in their cars?"
Were you about to post your studies and calculations showing that would be the result?
Or are you still just waving your hands in the air and hoping really hard that it might turn out that way?
I forgot, in addition to lowering the cost for diesel, it frees up your heavy oil, so you can export more of it.
You do realize that the US cannot continue on its current path of spending and consumption. When the US pulls out of the middleast and abandons its current foreign policy, and oil is no longer traded in USD, you will experience signficant inflation.
Additionally, a bad season for crops, will send a ripple affect throughout your economy and may push some people, so reliant on credit over the edge. I imagine, food is a high priority on your list, considering you need it to live.
So you can choose between paying your mortgage or eating. I suppose you could eat mud and cardboard. This is another reason why Americans should consider renting out part of their house.
The Fair Housing Act does not apply, so you are free to choose who you want.
As I thought: You have no idea if your "programs" would actually produce the results you say. But you're OK with lying about it, in hopes that someone will believe you anyway. Who cares if it doesn't actually work.
A part of NAFTA went into effect in 2011 that allowed Mexican trucks to travel all over the US.
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