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Mass transportation systems should be encouraged to evolve and diversify more quickly through a variety of not presently existing federal policies toward a reduction of average cost domestically to a far smaller portion of the ordinary household budget. It wouldn't be a good idea to invest heavily in ossified public transportation infrastructure however except where it would clearly provide far superior quality service to anything presently existing in the private sector. Are the Stalin era Moscow subways the last word in Muscovite transportation efficiency?

This is somewhat of a trick pony question; should the government buy everyone a horse and maintain a herd, or just grow the grass for the people, or grow the grass and supply the horses...Americans should produce their own electricity at home for electric cars, while federal incentives would help establish a market to produce low cost home electrical power production equipment-imagine if all the people had Wal-Mart produced made in China air generators or solar panels for under $100 dollars able to produce a thousand (1000) watts of electricity a large percentage of the time?

Robert Goddard wanted to build a Boston-New York subway line in the 1920's with an electro-magnetic motivation...and Robert Goddard wasn't an impractical dope regarding speed and possibility, yet of course the government turned down his proposal and today N.Y.C. is still spending billions on a New subway line; democracies don't often select the best and even futurist modes of transport. Today and electro-magnetic trans-continental subway/and tube line might reach speeds of several hundred miles per hour yet the United States needs to invest in Dubai and have its Clinton-Halliburton-Bush-Chane y axis of oil dependence continue.

Realistically the federal government is a large non-profit collective and global corporation large collectives for their own profit with a variable pay scale; it isn't in the interests of the citizens of the United States to allow any large collectives to dominate their lives nor to control their personal transportation, energy supplies, water food or anything else. In large collectives a mafia eventually rises to rule and stagnation sets in as creativity is repressed. Presently America and the west experience twin towers of doom known as socialism and corporatism, and each will rodeo the U.S.A. into the gutter for purposes of profit, power and totalitarianist redistribution of social


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