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[quote user="henry6"][quote user="Bucyrus"] You say the so-called "transportation crisis" needs to be solved by collaboration of both public and private sectors, yet you say that the solution will be neither socialism nor capitalism.  To me, that sounds like a rhetorical slogan that seeks to have it both ways.  Of course the solution will be both socialism and capitalism, if it is a partnership between the public and private sectors.  I agree that there will inevitably be socialist elements to any solution, but I would prefer to see as little of it as possible.  I certainly don't see socialism as an ingredient that is needed due to a lack of capital in the private sector.  I see socialism as an opportunistic virus that forever seeks to expand itself for its own empowerment by labeling something as a crisis and then telling us that we all have to roll up our sleeves and solve it together.  And wherever socialism is applied, its operatives spread the cost to individuals according to their ability to pay.  So the system takes money from the rich and gives it to the poor, and feeds on that revenue stream in the process.  Dragging their feet on highway construction, shoving LRT down out throats, driving up gasoline prices, promoting the idea of a transportation crisis--these are some of the ways that the socialists work to push us toward socialized transportation, so they can make their socialism bigger.  [/quote] But if the capitalists call it a crisis situation and go asking the government for help. then are they, in effect, socialists?  And if governments don't help private investors (capitalists) then where do investors turn for capital if they themselves don't have it.  Then what happens to the country's infrastructure and ability to conduct business?  What you, and others, don't seem to understand, is that business is at a brick wall and needs help.  Would you rather they get the help from the the United States governement or from an overseas govenrment like China who could, therefore, eventually overtake the entire economy and society of the United States by buying it.  The old National Traffic Safety Council once ran an ad slogan, "you could be right, dead right"  And that seems quite applicable here.[/quote]Yes capitalists can look for government handouts, especially when a private enterprise is on the verge of failure.  Then they would likely make the case that their failure would hurt society more than a bailout would.  Look what is happening today.  But generally, if something is worth doing, capitalism can raise the capital to do it.  I don't see why you conclude that business is at a "brick wall and needs help."  If a U.S. company is in trouble and needs help, I would absolutely, without question, prefer to see them get it from foreign investment rather than from the U.S. government / taxpayers.  And I would not conclude that foreign investment in the U.S. leads to a takeover by the investor.
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