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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by wctransfer</i> <br /><br />Anywho, ill begin the long process of getting ON TOPIC. This was not a place to talk about AMERICAN JOBS!--<snip>-- Start a different topic. My opinion is that UP should have a Small little flag under the cab, and actually put UNION PACIFIC on a locomotive. <br /> <br />Alec <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I really agree with the part of your post after the -<snip>-, but the first partI disagree with. Yes, technically we were "off topic" but I think that we we IN TOPIC in an abstract way.... <br /> <br />UP is using those flags to enhance it's image, and image that may be tarnished for any number of reasons. <br /> <br />And, being a prime component in the mechanism enabling outsourcing to succeed COULD be one of those reasons. <br /> <br />going even further off topic but keeping it brief, when I see port authorities hard sell their public to be enthusiastic about tearing down a perfectly good bridge to replace it with one more accomodating of the modern Super container ships, under the auspices of "progress" I think the public would be well advised to think of the improvement in terms of how it serve 'outsourcing' of american jobs. <br /> <br />So, while in a strictly railroading context, while it might feel good to contemplate the tremendous growth in the intermodal sector, one would be fooli***o ignore the toll already taken on the american job scene. Each trainload of foreign sourced containers is like an epitaph to the American Industrial ethic.... <br /> <br />And , a witting participant hiding behind the PR apronstrings of <b>PATRIOTISM!!</b> isn't entirely out of context, it's just a smoking gun of an abstract nature
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