Now this will get the economy back on track... Think of this as ethanol to fuel Amtrack.
Joe biden, joe bite me, or sometimes as he is called "the everyidiot" announced a $53 billion dollar plan to extend the Amtrack bottomless pit. This is your stimulus plan still creating value to the economy and keeping unemployment below 8%.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...ect=HIGHSPEEDRAIL0904&articleTabs=interactive
There isn't a single link here not already served by bus or airplane or car much more efficiently. Nooooooo we need more red ink passed onto the states to maintain this krap which private money wouldn't touch. The bill nelson track to nowhere. This is 80 miles of track for 1.25 billion dollars. It saves nothing. The human traffic between Tampa and Orlando is virtually nil. Tourists never come in from Tampa. And at 80 miles it is a short enough trip to Tampa.
OK, lets play liberal loser... Instead of taking your car on a business trip you take the Bill Nelson train to nowhere. It lands you at the mouth of Disney's parking lot. But you need to get to Altamonte Springs. So now you have to rent a car, or hire a cab to take you there. So your cost advantage and the flowery ecological advantages is completely lost because without a car in orlando, you aren't going anywhere.
Understand that year after year after year this liberal high speed line has been rejected as not cost effective and you can easily see why. But this money is an earmark for bill nelson's vote to kill Medicare for seniors in FL. This was Florida's prize.
Consider FL. It has virtually no businesses other than tourism. This will only hurt FL business by cutting off the many businesses between tampa and orlando along I-4. It uses gov subsidies to compete against buses and plane and limo services that already serve this tiny market segment. And the beauty of all this... The citizens of FL were not given a say. This is like an uncle giving you a piece of chemical landfill for Christmas which you will have to pay out of pocket to detox. So the value given is much less than the costs you will incur over the future. Yes... this is a liberal plan; void of any intelligence whatsoever. This is spending with no purpose. If High speed rail was cost effective, it would have existed in the US 40 years ago. Instead, its krap.
Joe biden, joe bite me, or sometimes as he is called "the everyidiot" announced a $53 billion dollar plan to extend the Amtrack bottomless pit. This is your stimulus plan still creating value to the economy and keeping unemployment below 8%.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...ect=HIGHSPEEDRAIL0904&articleTabs=interactive
There isn't a single link here not already served by bus or airplane or car much more efficiently. Nooooooo we need more red ink passed onto the states to maintain this krap which private money wouldn't touch. The bill nelson track to nowhere. This is 80 miles of track for 1.25 billion dollars. It saves nothing. The human traffic between Tampa and Orlando is virtually nil. Tourists never come in from Tampa. And at 80 miles it is a short enough trip to Tampa.
OK, lets play liberal loser... Instead of taking your car on a business trip you take the Bill Nelson train to nowhere. It lands you at the mouth of Disney's parking lot. But you need to get to Altamonte Springs. So now you have to rent a car, or hire a cab to take you there. So your cost advantage and the flowery ecological advantages is completely lost because without a car in orlando, you aren't going anywhere.
Understand that year after year after year this liberal high speed line has been rejected as not cost effective and you can easily see why. But this money is an earmark for bill nelson's vote to kill Medicare for seniors in FL. This was Florida's prize.
Consider FL. It has virtually no businesses other than tourism. This will only hurt FL business by cutting off the many businesses between tampa and orlando along I-4. It uses gov subsidies to compete against buses and plane and limo services that already serve this tiny market segment. And the beauty of all this... The citizens of FL were not given a say. This is like an uncle giving you a piece of chemical landfill for Christmas which you will have to pay out of pocket to detox. So the value given is much less than the costs you will incur over the future. Yes... this is a liberal plan; void of any intelligence whatsoever. This is spending with no purpose. If High speed rail was cost effective, it would have existed in the US 40 years ago. Instead, its krap.
