A day in the life of Fox News

[giblets]

If Obama only suggested investing in better high-speed rail for the northeast, the people on Fox News would just accuse him of favoring regions that vote for Democrats or something. Whatever he does, they whine about it.

[Tupac Shakur]

No **** Sherlock? High-speed rail is hard to implement and expensive????

Exactly. That's why...

High-speed rail is generally a stupid waste of money.

Let's increase highway traffic, here's a better solution.

We can also improve our air transportation infrastructure.



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[Hauldren Collider]

1. That's not actually true. They do praise him occasionally...they're not actually retarded like you wish they were.
2. The role of opposition is to oppose. Those shows are all talk shows. They have a conservative lean to them. If they didn't oppose the president, they wouldn't be opposition. THAT'S THE POINT.

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[Kitschum]

Trains are nice.

[Docfeelgood]

The wonderful thing about planes is that they don't require very much road. Just like a mile or two where you want to take off and where you want to land. High speed rail only makes sense when you have a fairly linear corridor of extremely densely populated areas, so basically the Boston-Washington route is the only practical one in the US.

Also, if people stop using plane routes as often, you don't have a massively expensive train track to maintain. You just fly the planes more or less to each area depending on supply and demand. Honestly, air travel makes so much more sense than train travel you might even think there's a logical reason for there being more passenger air travel than train travel in the US...

The Acela is already a bit faster than airplanes when you take into account time spent in security. It's not worth it to build another train track.

High speed rail

those are some good points, but bullet trains are so cool.

[MrFun]

Simply increasing highways in America is a stupid, short-sighted "solution" rather than a smart, long-term solution.

[Tupac Shakur]

What's your "smart, long-term solution"? Running a bullet train through Iowa?

[MrFun]

High-speed rail in corridors between high density population/metropolitan areas.

[Tupac Shakur]

Now name the corridors you want. Good luck finding more than one or two sensible ones.

[giblets]

2. The role of opposition is to oppose. Those shows are all talk shows. They have a conservative lean to them. If they didn't oppose the president, they wouldn't be opposition. THAT'S THE POINT.

This is stupid. The point in being opposition is that you support a different set of policies, not to complain about whatever Obama is doing just for the sake of complaining.

[Hauldren Collider]

No, it is the point. If you are the opposition, it is your explicit job to oppose the president, right or wrong. The way it has ALWAYS worked is to almost always oppose whatever the administration is doing at the moment.

[MrFun]

1) The NE Corridor that's already proposed; Boston - Washington DC

2) Minneapolis - Indianapolis going through Chicago

3) Austin - Dallas, or if there's more travel, then this shorter route; Austin - Houston

4) Los Angeles - San Francisco

5) I also thought about St. Louis - Columbus, connecting to the Minneapolis - Chicago in Indianapolis but not sure about that one

[MrFun]

No, it is the point. If you are the opposition, it is your explicit job to oppose the president, right or wrong. The way it has ALWAYS worked is to almost always oppose whatever the administration is doing at the moment.

You really are retarded.
Extreme partisanship is based on opposing politicians of the other party, even when their proposals or policies are RIGHT.

The only job the opposition should have, is to serve as a watchdog/whistle blower, propose counter ideas/policies, and to oppose the other party's proposals or policies that are clearly WRONG.

With your idea of opposition even when the other is right, we can just kill any remnant of bi-partisanship and get even LESS done in government.

[Hauldren Collider]

The wannabe community college teacher thinks I'm retarded

Glass windows, man. I'm not the one who's unemployed. I hate to make a dig like that but you're just asking for it.

[Tupac Shakur]

1) The NE Corridor that's already proposed; Boston - Washington DC

Extremely difficult to implement, as already discussed.

2) Minneapolis - Indianapolis going through Chicago

Unprofitable failure.

3) Austin - Dallas, or if there's more travel, then this shorter route; Austin - Houston

Unprofitable failure.

4) Los Angeles - San Francisco

Might work. The only other potentially sensible high-speed rail corridor in the United States.

5) I also thought about St. Louis - Columbus, connecting to the Minneapolis - Chicago in Indianapolis but not sure about that one

Unprofitable failure.