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<p>[quote user="henry6"]</p> <p>If public funding, bonding, chartering, or other support of rail transportation in this country is so repugnant to so many then I ask why did it happen in the 19th and 20th centuries? </p> <p>We are so afraid of the term socialism and so in love with the term private enterprise that... </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">To your first question: </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because those earlier expenditures were perceived as paying investments that were worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try as you might to link HSR to them, the majority of the public does not perceive HSR as being worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">To your further comment about how we are afraid of socialism:</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The problem some of the the public sees with socialism is that it just leads to infinite spending without any accountability, whereas private investment has to take real risk with their money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they are much more careful about how they spend it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that is why China leads us in HSR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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