Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
I think putting things off will hurt us in the long run. I think the benefits of decreasing our oil use, creating jobs for the rail system of this size, and cutting emmisions is something to invest in.

We are already decades behind europe and asia in regards to transit, why should we put it off any longer?

Remember, to make money, you have to spend money. Have you seen an increase in taxes lately? I havent. Or is it moving money and spending it on other projects?
I completely agree that we are decades behind many parts of the world in regards to mass transit and need to solve our energy issues. My main point is that I'm for a train system (one should have been built in 60's - 70's however the teamsters union massively fought against it fearing they would loose their jobs) however how this money was appropriated I believe was wrong. I don't think that we should we should just say hay were spending 10's of billions of dollars a day, what a few more. As a nation Obama is trying to tackle WAY to much at once, I say WAY more that what this country can afford and potentially more that what it can survive.

In regards to Tax's, call someone who smokes, someone in california paying 9% sales tax or anyone self employed who actually plays by the rules to the T, paying threw the nose. Both sides have fully acknowledge that taxes are going up, way up to cover all the entitlements being handed out right and left. Most won't go into effect until 2011, but they are coming and the TEA parties that took place this week will look like a joke when hundreds of thousands of people start protesting working until june or july to just pay their tax's. Cities and States are already massively raising taxes, even after federal bailout money as they are nearly all still facing huge deficits and the federal government is lining up to HAVE to do the same just a few years behind them.