http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:49:13 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/30/224916.php#comment-682604 First, I'm against almost any of the "good" ideas proposed by government. However, there are some not so well thought on things on here. One is the land taken from farmers is really not theirs anyway, as you and I pay for their welfare so that they only have to work a few weeks out of the year and bitch cause they can't make a living before they get into their new 4X4 diesel and drive home to their 4 bed brick home, $80000 tractor(s!!!), and their wife's new Suburban. Most of us would be lucky to be that broke. As for putting it all on rail, well, that's stupid. This would drive the cost of EVERYTHING sky high, since nothing in this country gets to market without being put on a truck, even if it moved by rail. Rail is hugely costly, that's why the RR were really hurting until fuel prices made them somewhat competitive again. Plus, almost all RR's are unionized, and once that happens a competitive industry is DEAD here, or you and I foot the bill. Witness the education of our children, would you work as hard as you do if you knew you could not lose your job, short of killing someone? Once again we need to look at the basics, not the legalese and idealogical veiwpoints. The thing to do is make Mexican trucks meet our standards. In fact we need to make a lot of our trucks meet our standards. But, to finish my point, we need to make their products meet our standards and get the unions out of this country so we can be the ones shipping out again instead of buying everything from outside the U.S. Which we could ship by rail due to the bulk, since it is the quantity purchased that determines whether it goes on a rail or a truck. There's a tiny, small solution to the problem. 682604@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:49:13 EST