I think it's a lukewarm set of abstractions.

you need to repeal right to work laws, punish corporations engaging in price gouging and wage theft by multitudes of what they benefit, and you need severe punishments for corner cutting. being in construction, I am very concerned by what's standard practice here. in every instance the consumer and the worker bears the brunt

It's hard to have a conversation with posters like you that continually argue in bad faith.

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Eh, he’s in better physical and mental shape than at least a dozen senators.

Probably shut down those posts because it will inevitably lead to partisan bickering.

What evidence do you have that Kilimnik is a Russian spy? Or that the polling data reached Russian intel?

Nah, the mueller report and the senate intel report said the data was passed from Manafort to Kilimnic, the treasury department said it reached Russian intel. I agree the theories begin where the facts end, and that’s after the trump campaign manager gave polling data to a man the US govt says is a russian spy. So again, how do you classify those facts? Totally legal and totally cool?

Balanced. A surplus actually

…backed up by documents and other sources.

The source for your argument is the Treasury Department who presented no evidence whatsoever.

See? Told you liberals also believe hoaxes and conspiracy theories

1. Do really believe that having an oligopoly of 4 class-I railroads operating for profit compared to if we nationalized it and ran it as a public good would mean LESS service and expansion? The rail companies happily take record profits for declining service. The less they spend on crews and actual improvements to rail the happier their shareholders are.

2. Because the railroads declined to install required safety infra to go above 79 mph for huge swaths of the rail network making rail uncompetitive with early regional airlines.

3. A concerted government and business campaign to get people into cars rather than onto trains. It’s as much a policy choice as a consumer choice.

4. Again- CORPORATIONS. I am proposing a national freight carrier (call it Amfreight) that would be responsible for doing all this without concern for profit. Unions are a good thing- the only reason they’ve been demonized is because the ownership hates having to share the fruits of labor’s labor with the actual workers.

Oh, I'm sorry, using a keyboard that auto correct... So you can ignore the whole argument for one mistake..

Good job, you successfully didn't have to actually have a good point or discuss in good faith!

You sound so misinformed. You can’t be this misinformed. I think your adhd drugs have rotted your ability to think outside the box.

We had a balanced federal budget until bush decided to commit war crimes and start a decades long war in two countries that blew money we didn't have.... Did you whine about that as much?

Don't bring them into this the youngest one would be over 100 now and under 20 then... They wouldn't "know"

, the reason the great depression stayed around for as long was the lack of government intervention... In cascading problems. But hey, they needed to spend billions of dollars to help companies take over countries, they needed to whip up fake wars to spend billions on.... They knew the value of the dollar back then.

So asking who is attacking people you claimed to being attacked is somehow targeting???? Your logic is muted.

Find out the forces behind what keeps us from expanding our rail network. The political contributors and lobbyists, the nimby do gooders, the competitors of rail, the regulators, etc.

Find out why commuters prefer not to use it.

Look into the rail corporations and unions.

I don’t think you have done all your homework. It’s much more complex than you seem to think.

LMAO, the source for your argument is… Konstantin Kilimnik 🤦‍♂️

You mean socialism not socializing. I’m not really a fan of either. Especially with dumb people that don’t understand the difference between socialism and socializing.

My point was, you cannot legislate accidents. “No more rail accidents”.

You can regulate industries to reduce accident potential but no legislation can mandate “no more accidents”.

Your boy follows little girls into dressing rooms and "grabs them by the pussy", so yeah, you can shut up now.

Republicans

Well but, who do you think is paying for their accidents now?

You already love socializing when things go wrong. Hell, you love socializing building it through eminent domain...

On top of that, if these companies are making a profit, why would nationalizing require paying g taxes?

Part of that unsustainability is runaway corporate profits. Compare the price of sending mail via a public good like the post office to that of UPS or FedEx.

Imagine if instead of free roadways you had to pay a toll every time you left your driveway. 75 years ago we invested in car infrastructure. Today we should invest in train infrastructure.

This is a great example of what I mean.

The data was publicly available info and he was not a Russian spy at all.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/05/19/accused_russiagate_spy_kilimnik_speaks_-_and_evidence_backs_his_no_collusion_account_777328.html#!

So, when you crash your car, they set it on fire to "burn the bad chemicals away"?

So, when a normal two lane goes through a town, you are fine with going 100 miles per hour?

There is a fucking world of difference between rail and cars. Rails go one way and there should be no unknowns. Yeah, you can legislate that. Like if people were wanting to make roller coasters safer, you'd be whining about "well, we should make the swimming pool safer'

Cost is always a factor. The food we eat, the amount of gas you pump, the style of shoes you wear. Our system is unsustainable and will implode at some point. The really old people who lived through the Great Depression understand this. We don’t, we think spending trillions more than we have is sustainable.

Vegans I know would call them abusers.