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[quote user="Limitedclear"]  There is quite a push on in Congress for more regulation of railroad bridges. [/quote]The public sector always strives to enlarge itself by taking over activities of the private sector.  It creates special interest advocacy groups who publish studies highlighting safety threats, and feed them to the news media.  Without even realizing that they are being used like a tool, the news media broadcasts the safety threat to the public.  The public is predictably alarmed, so they turn around and besiege their representatives to do something about the safety threat.  So even though most of us are skeptical of this issue because we understand railroad bridges and the reasonably reliable motives of the railroads to properly inspect them, 99% of the viewers will just lap this up.  So the larger objective to put the government in charge of railroad bridge inspection by getting the public to demand it will have been furthered.  Meanwhile KSTP news will merely believe they are enhancing their ratings by protecting us like children on an inside tip they got from a special interest (with no agenda) suggesting they look into railroad bridge safety.
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