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rails to alaska? to asia?
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Congress has indeed been known to sponsor Jules Verne-i***ype boon-doggles. I say let's go! If some private corporation(s) are willing to foot the bill and absorb the profit or loss, then get it on. But Bush's interest is in going to Mars. [Perhaps he's looking for some more suckers to support our debts.] All these guys with great ideas to spend my money are too much! Come to think of it, they aren't spending my money, but my great-grandchildren's. Andyjay, if there was any feasable way to run a railroad to Alaska[or Mars!] and make a profit from it, some slick Capitalist would have done it many generations ago. And LC, there isn't any "public works" cash left; that thin, red line you see on the horizon is the brick wall that we are approaching at notch 8...
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