Go Trump Go!!! Woohooo Choo-Choo!!!

Go Trump Go!!! Woohooo Choo-Choo!!!

Are you now a Trump voter or you just like this one issue?

“On the federal level, this is going to be an expensive investment, no question about that. But in the long run it will more than pay for itself,” he said. “It will stimulate our economy while it is being built and make it a lot easier to do business when it’s done—and it can be done on time and under budget.”

Trump is right about this. Investment in the nation's infrastructure pays massive dividends over time.

But investment in overseas military adventures has no return: the money is burnt, and it's gone, and we have nothing permanent to show for any of it other than crippled soldiers and coffins. We didn't hold onto Vietnam. Iraq is a Shi'ite ally of Iran for all practical purposes. What did we get for our trillions? Heartache, and a permanent stream of interest payments.

That's why Trump's foreign policy, which is basically: end the Cold War and the War on Terror by allying with Russia, letting them have their sphere of influence, clobbering the terrorists for good, and bringing the forces home from Europe, is so very right. THAT saves money - a permanent drain. And that money that is freed up can be used for debt reduction and infrastructure improvement.

Of the ones who are left, Clinton, Cruz and Rubio will absolutely NOT get my vote... so that only leaves Bernie, Trump and Kasich as possibilities...

I been voting for 44 years now, and this is the most pathetic bunch of candidates I've ever seen.

Let the Chinese keep their high speed trains . High speed trains there mean high spead accidents to cover up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8658959/Anger-in-China-as- bodies-fall-from-carriages-during-train-crash-clean-up.html

mtrak has I believe one line that is actually profitable .

Amtrak is profitable in the NE Corridor where it owns, upgrades and maintains its own track. On other routes, the freight carriers are reluctant to upgrade their infrastructure to provide safe and competitive passenger service. Those tracks and right-of-ways should be seized by eminent domain so that the rail infrastructure can be upgraded.

“On the federal level, this is going to be an expensive investment, no question about that. But in the long run it will more than pay for itself,” he said. “It will stimulate our economy while it is being built and make it a lot easier to do business when it’s done—and it can be done on time and under budget.”

I can't wait to have the Government overpay for another Big Dig project. Last time the money went into the pockets of likes of Kennedy and Kerry and numerous MA politicians and {ah-hem} businessmen. I wonder how it will get into Dollar Donald's pocket the next go around.

Trump is right about this. Investment in the nation's infrastructure pays massive dividends over time.

But investment in overseas military adventures has no return: the money is burnt, and it's gone, and we have nothing permanent to show for any of it other than crippled soldiers and coffins. We didn't hold onto Vietnam. Iraq is a Shi'ite ally of Iran for all practical purposes. What did we get for our trillions? Heartache, and a permanent stream of interest payments.

That's why Trump's foreign policy, which is basically: end the Cold War and the War on Terror by allying with Russia, letting them have their sphere of influence, clobbering the terrorists for good, and bringing the forces home from Europe, is so very right. THAT saves money - a permanent drain. And that money that is freed up can be used for debt reduction and infrastructure improvement.

Good post. And we can tax the left wing globalist billionaires to pay for it. They want to import socialism so much by importing democrat voters, then let them be hoisted upon their own petard.

Kind of like the Bernie Sanders yard sign.

Kind of like the Bernie Sanders yard sign.

Bernie's going to find that is what is going to happen to his delegates . He has to share them .

I can't wait to have the Government overpay for another Big Dig project.

don't fret soso, president trump will come up with an idea so the tax payers can make a buck off of it.

I can't wait to have the Government overpay for another Big Dig project.

don't fret soso, president trump will come up with an idea so the tax payers can make a buck off of it.

Ah, he will get China to pay for it. Thanks for clearing that up.

The goverment gave land grants to the railroads back in the day

No problemo... whatever the Government giveth, the Government can taketh away...
Afterall, it's not as if the private railroads ever paid for the land, so if they don't upgrade the tracks, just condemn them as unsafe for transportation and confiscate them for public use.

No problemo... whatever the Government giveth, the Government can taketh away... Afterall, it's not as if the private railroads ever paid for the land, so if they don't upgrade the tracks, just condemn them as unsafe for transportation and confiscate them for public use.

Yea, we would have been better off without railroads. So being anti-Trump now is to go off into stupid land?

No problemo... whatever the Government giveth, the Government can taketh away... Afterall, it's not as if the private railroads ever paid for the land, so if they don't upgrade the tracks, just condemn them as unsafe for transportation and confiscate them for public use.

...and destroy the only productive and profitable use of rail in the country ...the movement of freight. If people wanted to ride the railroads they would already be the best in the world. When we started driving cars ,the trolly lines were dug up and replaced with better roads . Americans don't want to be stuffed like sardines in a can to get to and from work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kor5nHtZQ

If you are telling me that we should be investing some R&D money into something similar to Elon Musk's Hyperloop then I'm interested . But to tell me that you want to create a market that isn't there using old technology then I say that the market doesn't exist ,and it won't exist no matter how fast you get trains on wheels to go ,and how fancy your trains and stations look. There are plenty of infrastructure issues that need addressing . Passenger rail is low on that totempole.

...and destroy the only productive and profitable use of rail in the country ...the movement of freight.

If it helps disrupt the shipment of double-stack containers from China, yeah, you bet.

So being anti-Trump now is to go off into stupid land?

Yep.

But investment in overseas military adventures has no return: the money is burnt, and it's gone,

Gone where Comrade Vic?

You commie Jesuits are so predictable.

Why don't you tell the class about how both forms of government expenditure affect the velocity of the almighty dollar?

Here, I'll help:

http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Velocity_of_money

Ah, he will get China to pay for it.

And will they do that, in part, by making a profit on selling back the steel that used to be in, cough, the American railroads... that crony mercantilists have been selling to them?

http:// www.google.com/#q=american%20steel%20sold%20to%20china

American Mass Transit

What a hoot.

Not to mention the fortune the Jesuit Marx Banksters and their cronies will make by financing the construction of low income multi-residential slums all along the tracks.

Chicago Here We Come! Whoo Whoo! All Aboard!

Why don't you tell the class about how both forms of government expenditure affect the velocity of the almighty dollar?

Because it's irrelevant and I don't care?

How many jobs you s'pose that is Comrade Vic (beings as how you're so "well informed" and all)?

He's not a fan of what I have to offer.

For my part, once people start talking to me that way I stop listening to their points and just focus on their nastiness. My court is open to all, and I'll converse with anybody, in a civil way.

He talks down to me and speaks of me in the most degrading terms he can imagine, so obviously I ceased to really follow his thoughts or logic a long time ago.

I reply, but my replies are not based on serious analysis - why would I actually do any WORK for somebody who (a) isn't paying me, and (b) is nasty as hell?

That pretty much shows you the kinda guy he is, start crap then hide behind the bozo's little dress.

when we make peace with Russia

Face the doors, Comrade.

He's not a fan of what I have to offer.

That's because you're too inept to recognize (or too amorally corrupt to acknowledge) the historically self-evident fact that the "infrastructure" builders and the Military Industrial destroyers are just two sides of the same blood sucking coin.

Exhibit A: Dick Cheney's Halliburton mob.

That's because you're too inept to recognize (or too amorally corrupt to acknowledge) the historically self-evident fact that the "infrastructure" builders and the Military Industrial destroyers are just two sides of the same blood sucking coin.

I'm neither inept nor amorally corrupt.

I recognize that good infrastructure and military forces adequate to national defense are positively good things, that these things are orchestrated by government and paid for by taxes, and that therefore government is not the evil thing that you wrongly assert it is. Excessive infrastructure and bloated militaries are bad things, requiring too much in taxes, and making government overmighty and overbearing.

But this is the point of philosophical and theological difference between us. You define government, all government, as evil by definition. I recognize that right-sized government is a positive good, a thing that does things nobody else can, that extend human lives and improve human happiness.

You consider this alliance with Satan. I think your position is ungodly.

And I note that your language is so vituperative that, placed side by side with mine, the demons fairly scream out of your words, while my words are generally pretty mild.

In other words, we each think that the other has a demon, but I'm right.

Some folks have deep seated problems with authority that they have never quite worked out.

Trains are for super heavy loads that must travel long distance. Community train system are one of the biggest waste of public money. Its just a public works project that pays high wages to low skilled workers who join a union and back demoncrats. You would be so much better off given everyone back their tax dollars!

Trains equal no riders, gang hang out, noisy contraptions that have never paid for up keep and employees! ie socialist/progressives wet dream!!!!

I would say buy everyone motorcycles/mopeds with that money but those things are huge polluters!

Ignorant luddites like you are guilty of surrendering advanced transportation technology to the Chinese.

I'm neither inept nor amorally corrupt.

700+ trillion dollars worth of derivative a$$paper conjured by your ilk into the global economic sewage pond contradicts your assertion, Your Worshipfulness.

At least Alan Greenspan managed to demonstrate the character required to say "ooops".

What was Drumpfenflipper University s'pose to teach folks again?

700+ trillion dollars worth of derivative a$$paper

Has nothing whatever to do with trains, infrastructure, social security, public schools.

The government doesn't issue derivatives. The private capitalist marketplace creases them.

The government doesn't issue derivatives.

Or regulate them, evidently.

Hos 12:7-8
7 The merchant uses dishonest scales;
he loves to defraud.
8 Ephraim boasts,
"I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin."
NIV

Maybe government should focus on regulating vampires instead of building infrastructure by colluding with crony vampires in the infrastructure bidness.

Planning on using Rearden Metal in your fancy railroading enterprise are you?

I don't care?

Uhuh. That would be that "amoral" character flaw you deny having.