What America Is Capable of.

[Richard Cranium]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QF32mxftE

 

[YY1]

Dang, I usually try to stay out of political type threads...

Isn't there already 30 odd cents of tax on evry gallon of gas?

The railroads are also a great example of the love/hate relationship between goverment and big business.

Transcontinental travel would have been extremely difficult if not impossible if it weren't for massive land grants and imminent domain siezures. (and don't forget that railroad stock-government insider trading scandel- credit mobilier) Then the railroads were nearly strangled to death by decades of outdated tarrif and rate regulation.
Railroads remain one of the most cost effective methods of freight transportation, yet the governments (fed and state) are reluctant to invest in a true modern passenger network, and are still subsidizing money losing trains that run 3/4 empty.

Where's that milk price thread? I was just reminded that if the fiscal cliff is not averted, that federal subsidies and price supports (corporate welfare) to the dairy farmers will expire. Apparently those are equal to another $3 per gallon, and milk could go over $6.

WTF??

 

[RustyRatRod]

I didn't start this as a political thread. I simply started it as a look at what this country can accomplish. Nothing more and nothing less. Everybody else made it about slavery and anything else negative they could think of.

 

[moparmarks]

Construction on the The Empire State Building started on 3/17/1930 and took 1 year, 45 days to build. Framework rose at a rate of 4.5 stories per week.

Some kickass construction there.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Yup, das wut I'm tawkin bowt, mark. Same with the Golden Gate.

 

[moparmarks]

Between July 1 1940 and July 31 1945 the US produced:
296,601 aircarft
71,060 ships
86,388 tanks.
This country can kickass when it really wants to. Just needs the right motivation I guess

 

[RustyRatRod]

Here's another great story. It's long but well worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4o8NISa4Hs

 

[Bruzilla]

No way can we do this today. Back then it was completely different, no EPA, etc.. Just saying in general, but if a project of similar magnitude like the first bomb was going to be built today it would seemingly take a lifetime. For example, we have been working on a new Bay Bridge for 20 yrs and it's still not done - and that is just the eastern span!!!

I don't think the government is capable of doing it, but private industry can. Back when I lived in MD, I had to go to DC quite a bit, and flew out of Washington Dulles a lot. I was always having to deal with insane traffic on I-66 until the Dulles Greenway bypass opened up. The Dulles Greenway is a 13-mile long privately-built highway that allows you a more direct shot to DC and with much less traffic. It's a toll road, and was built using 100% private funds. The builders bought all the land rights, built the highway, and maintain it without counting on any government for a dime. They even pay the state to have the State Police patrol it! They built it in the mid-1990s and finished it in less than five years, which is about half the time it would have taken the government to build it, and it was finished under budget... and without slave labor.

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

I lay that much track on my ole' lady at least once a week lmao

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QF32mxftE

Lmao Camp town cranium sings this song doh dah doh dah lmao!

 

[Budnicks]

How about something fun like Disneyland or Disney World, funded & started originally by, Walt Disney he was a true visionary...

 

[RustyRatRod]

It ain't DisneyLand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKU1PTyHtbM

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

gooberment :sSig_lol3:

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