Privatization of PUBLIC transportation is a national disgrace. It is also a matter of national security. Transportation, telecomunications, utilities AND banking should be "public" or nationalized !!!!! Anything less is immoral, criminal, disgusting and downright ignorant!
Since Regulation is a dirty word, it will not happen until those belonging to the billionairs club decide we also need quality transportion above ground and not just below. :)
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
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Only We the People were killed or injured - so no changes. Now IF someone from Congress had actually been injured....different story.
Today vote showed that not going to happen!
Well track failure cannot be a reason. Those tracks were in perfect condition the last time they were inspected, in 1953.
Roland
Privatization of PUBLIC transportation is a national disgrace. It is also a matter of national security. Transportation, telecomunications, utilities AND banking should be "public" or nationalized !!!!! Anything less is immoral, criminal, disgusting and downright ignorant!
Since Regulation is a dirty word, it will not happen until those belonging to the billionairs club decide we also need quality transportion above ground and not just below. :)