Okay so you saved $60 million by canceling the grant. Did anybody bother to consider that building the train would overall save taxpayers a good bit more than that? In the form of fuel, wasted time sitting in traffic, extra road maintenance, parking, etc?
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Of course they did. They dont care. They want oil money.
They get money off that
Especially rail, which is a billions dollar project.
Build some damned highspeed rails, assholes.
Texas sounds like a pretty shit place to live, no offense
Texan born and raised: it is. Didn't used to be so awful... Well, no... It's always been shit, it's just starting to affect us white people.
Seriously, we're drowning in wasted potential.
Texas is like the less successful sibling of California and California went on to become Jonny Kim.
It's a really evil place filled with wicked hearted people.
:'(
It really is. Some areas have nice people, but a lot... Mmph. Skip it.
As tornado alley reaches austin I think they’ll get climate change.
"The federal government spends more than $30 billion a year on subsidies for farm businesses and agriculture."
Remove subsidies on farms, please.
Small farms need the subsidies. Conglomerate-owned farms do not.
no thanks, why not subsidise my job instead, my job is smaller than a small farm. A small farm is a mega business compared to my small job.
God what a good change that would be. But these mega scale businesses always find ways to worm into the subsidies. I think John Oliver might have an episode on that.
The goal of the transportation department is not providing transportation
The goal of the transportation department is to punish people.
Punish them how?
Ensuring they need cars to exist.
Should we get rid of this department then?
The people running it into the ground need to go
No, the problem isn't the department it's the people running it, who are intentionally the wrong people to run it. Because that's what Republicans do. They tell you the goverment is useless and then they go about ensuring it actually is.
Thoroughly
Guess we better get rid of it then
Any way they can.
Punish them how?
Any way they can.
Tonight @ 9: Conservatives Shoot Themselves In The Foot...Again
America would be so much better and easier to travel with high speed trains, but car industry, careless politics, and whatever else like this.
EU and Japan, I'm jealous. Taking a train from like Spain to Germany or Norway to go to a festival for a weekend and come back is mind blowing for me. Seeing a crowd of people in Japan in awe after seeing the fastest bullet train to date, I wish I can do that.
I can go to any music fest here and be back at work by Monday or maybe I just want to hang out in a city not my own far away for some time.
There are no direct trains from Germany to Spain anymore.
It's still good, but some stupid people at the EU (I like the EU, but they're dead wrong on this one) "liberated" the rail market, and introduced cOmpEtItiOn and now the state rail operators can't get direct subsidies anymore, and they cooperate less with each other
Had no idea, I was using loose examples, but I know Europeans can go just about where ever for a not a bad price. US can be the same, the closest we got is maybe up and down East and West coast. The speed rail from Dallas to Austin isn't never happening due to our dumb car culture, easly bribed politicians, and Even a spa company from I think Spain? Is building a huge spa right where the speed rail drop off is in Dallas. Maybe they will build anyways.
I hope that the EU comes to some senses on the Spain and Germany train situation.
Republicans hate trains unless they are running one on a 12 year old
Ew, but true.
60mil is literally nothing when it comes to budgets
So much winning
I saved my family a ton of money by selling our cars.