RE: US government kick-starts $8 billion in high-speed rail projects
Gee..after killing the railroads by permitting the trucking industry to destroy the freeways whilst paying a token towards repairs--knowing full well that the only transport cheaper than rail is by water (perhaps zeppelins could compete, but on stupid accident caused by a company using ROCKET FUEL! to paint their lighter-than-air craft, pretty much destroyed the industry before it got started,) now the government is going to give taxpayer money away to revive an industry that the government destroyed in the first place!
If commercial highway users paid their actual costs of using the roads, rail would never have died, and we'd have had high=-speed rail from coast to coast back in the late '60's.
Seems that large industries are always profiting off of the taxpayers.
Of course, spreading huge amounts of money around a large number of states is a great way to guarantee that the Congress approves it--whether it makes sense or not!
