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[quote user="NKP guy"]You are entirely right about passenger service being "a minute part of it."  That is exactly my point.  Don't sweat the small stuff when we're talking about the national debt [/quote]   I agree that growing the economy is the best way to pay down the debt, but I don’t see how deficit spending on HSR is going grow the economy.  But to your point about HSR being chump change compared to the national debt.  I am not sure what minimalist number you are referring to, but we now have $8-billion on the table.  Most HSR advocates won’t be satisfied with anything less than a national system of lines and trains connecting most major cities.  $8-billion is not going to even pay for the meetings that will be necessary to build that national system.  The Hiawatha LRT in Minneapolis ran about $3/4-billion, and that system is a drop in the bucket compared to a national system of HSR.  So don’t see how you can characterize the price tag for HSR as being inconsequential.
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