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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here's the deal. Other countries like Europe appear to have free services etc but the reality is they are subsidized by the us and don't have to pay for the military etc even we pay more for healthcare drugs and products because we are subdizing other countries. When the us stops this those countries will get invaded and fall apart and no longer have cheaper services [/quote]

Do you actually believe this nonsensical propaganda?  You actually believe that Europeans have a social safety net because we are keeping them safe?  We don’t have a social safety net because that’s what Americans vote for. Do you love kool aid that much?  Think about things for at least 3 minutes before you bother typing it out please.[/quote]

DP.

Listen. We pay and pay in this country and don't get anything except half the country working and the other half enjoying the fruits of that labor.  ENOUGH.

You let us know when we have high-speed rail, which has been sucking up money for thirty GD years. Nothing to show for except environmental impact statements, studies, committees to discuss things to death, and a bunch of rich politicians and lawyers.[/quote]

You seriously think you don’t have a social safety net because we keep Europe safe and high speed rail?  What are you even talking about?  Listen—- you don’t have the same things as Europeans because you keep voting for REPUBLICANS [/quote]

I'm giving high speed rail as an example of anything govt does, it messes up.

You know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. [b]Japan had high speed rail 50+ years ago.  They planned it, paid for it and got it. Same with France. Same with Spain.

We just talk it to death in meetings.[/b] Now we're 10+ years down range on Obamacare. Almost every state is down to one insurer, competition is gone and we're spending 17% of every dollar on health care, more than any other country in the world, and crowding all other spending out.

Don't tell me this is a Republican thing. This is a big govt Washington DC bureaucracy thing, and BTW,  the only thing you value is taking money from one group and giving it to another. That's the ONLY thing you measure everything by. [/quote]

This is a really babyish understanding of why we don’t have rail.  The reason post war countries were able to organize themselves around rail is because they simply didn’t have that many constituencies to worry about- there weren’t rich NIMBYs fighting tooth and nail to keep a railway track out of their backyard.  People were just surviving.

And the problem with Obamacare is what has held our country back every step of the way- not Republicans, but conservatives.  Conservative democrats stripped Obamacare of a public option.

Conservatives have fought against every iota of progress in this country, from racial equality, to electric cars, to healthcare.  It doesn’t matter what political label they wear be it Democrats or Republicans.  Joe Biden signed legislation investing billions in our infrastructure and it was all for nothing.  You’re going to go to Europe in a couple of decades and find their electricity is insanely cheap and they’re driving electric cars for nothing while we won’t have the infrastructure- JUST LIKE RAIL.  And you are watching it in real time and both-sides-ing it.[/quote]

A successful high speed rail system is feasible in Europe because a rail  has a stop in a major city every hour or so. The US has too much sparsely populated area to make cross-continental rail systems feasible. This is basic common sense for most people.[/quote]

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