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I'm sorry Jeaton, you were trying to be constructive, not sarcastic like many of the otherss, and caught me off guard [#welcome]. Yeah, I see your point about the daunting prospect of having to start up a business against heavily subsidized competitors, such would suck. Our government operates in ways that are most backhanded, a great deal of the time, and the way most of the subsidies got themselves in place is best described as "subterfuge" or dirty tricks (the DEFENSE highway system , or "saving the airlines" as a patriotic gesture against terrorism etc) and in many ways the ideas I've seen floated around here seem to read like "hey guys, what we need is a dirty trick of our own" targeting a passive taxpayer for the "loot" required. Leading me to the presumption of "hey, they're talking about me!" and it simply becomes a matter of feathering another special interest's nest, with my hard earned dollars. In terms of value engineering, the railroads lend themselves to the process "more poorly" than any of the rest, due to the same huge cost of capitalization that the railroads once gladly abandoned "in place" just to escape with their skins, and that tells me something. Maybe if our government could be totally honest for once (I know, I'm dreaming) and put some hard trade offs on the table to choose from (I.E. "Keep supporting Israel, or spend that $800 million/year refurbishing Amtrak?" etc) I'd feel much differently.
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