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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] vaccines again<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…High speed rail fails in this country…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Agreed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…because of economically inefficient lobbying with war chests filled by monopolistic corporations…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Will this change? No. Currently we have the absurdity of federal government underwriting a high speed rail system in California. So people in the densely populated east coast are paying for a railroad track on the west coast. That makes no sense to me, and this is from one who lives near a proposed high speed rail station. Imagine how the others must feel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Our regulations actually promote this, we pretty much have a monoparty crony capitalist kleptocracy in my humble opinion…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja. So let us not allow them to pay for a high speed rail system. If that is going to pay, investors will come. But investors didn’t.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…I am pro market, anti big government, anti big corporation. At least as it stands, both are too susceptible to rot…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Plenty of economically successful countries have high speed rail, and most of them have better test scores than us too…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No worries, we have the option to go to one of those successful countries to ride that. it makes as much sense as having high speed rail on the opposite coast.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…I'm all about freedom and I love America…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do too Will. All that is needed is a period after that sentence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>High speed rail will cost a ton of money but never pay off. We have aircraft for what that system is supposed to do. Investors came. They paid. It paid. Done. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>