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Op Ed - "Railroad monopoly is drag from factory to the supermarket"
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[quote user="CSSHEGEWISCH"][quote user="futuremodal"][quote user="mudchicken"] <p>Nice try...Your rants only further destroy your case.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>That's your problem mudchicken - you can't argue a case on merits, so you resort to personal insults and content denial. The Chi-coms have got their collective hand right up your backside, pulling your strings and putting their words in your mouth. You just can't fathom that your employer is cross subsidizing Asian imports on the backs of domestic rail shippers, and harming the US economic base in the long run. So you come out with froth like "lemmings over the cliff" and "your rants blah blah blah" - it's apparent you never made your high school debate team.</p><p>Here's a clue for you to consider - Anti-trust exemption elimination isn't a "return" to pre-Staggers regulation, unless you want to stretch it back to the pre-Granger days.</p><p>Again - <strong><u>Eliminating anti-trust exemption is not "reregulation"</u></strong>, as is being shoveled by Ed Hamberger and his disingenuous cronies. In fact, no one of even remote credibility can make a case for the railroads' anti-trust exemption in a partially deregulated environment.</p><p>The fact that a bunch of *elected* urban numskulls can't make that distinction either isn't something to grasp onto by someone who should know better. Let's just hope you don your bio-hazard suit next time you feed your cat with that toxic imported crap from your spiritual homeland.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>FM has one of the worst cases of xenophobia that I've ever seen.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Well, we have had numerous news items regarding faulty Chinese made products, now we have the Chi-coms threatening to devalue the US dollar if we don't behave to their liking. If the Chinese can indeed excert that much influence over the US economy, why is it so hard to comprehend their influence over the US rail industry?</p><p>Why would an awareness of this spector be considered xenophobic by you?</p><p>That's why Mudchicken's "lemmings" comment is so ironic - the "lemmings" as I see it are those who continue to ignore or spin the economic threats and influence of Communist China.</p>
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