Joe Biden Boasts Plan to Take Millions of Vehicles off Highways by Putting People on Trains

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Even in the rail heydays where nearly every town was connected to or sprung up around the nearby railroad, it was often still to be 5+ miles by horse and buggy to get there - not a short trip by that measure.

Rail never was what the socialist planners pipe dream in their little confabs. Even in town it might be a mile or more to the station these days.

It's just another method for govt control.

It is indeed for control by government.

It is also to connect the liberal utopias, the big cities.

These leftists could care less what happens to the rest of America.

[Absalom]

Trains are for moving freight, not people.

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If you evet get to Europe (the continent east of us) fly to De Gaulle/Roissy in Paris, de-plane
and walk to the elevated terminal adjacent to the airport.
There you will see THOUSANDS queuing to board trains going all over Europe on a daily basis!
AND NONE OF THEM ARE FREIGHT!!!



 

[EdinVA]

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If you evet get to Europe (the continent east of us) fly to De Gaulle/Roissy, de-plane and walk
to the terminal adjacent to the airport.
There you will see THOUSANDS queuing to board trains going all over Europe on a daily basis!
AND NONE OF THEM ARE FREIGHT!!!

So, if your so in love with europe, you may go...
Their countries are smaller than most of our states, huge difference in scale.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

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If you evet get to Europe (the continent east of us) fly to De Gaulle/Roissy, de-plane and walk
to the terminal adjacent to the airport.
There you will see THOUSANDS queuing to board trains going all over Europe on a daily basis!
AND NONE OF THEM ARE FREIGHT!!!

Wow, a Euro-booster who believes we are all clueless on how Europe has restricted so much of its population to 19th century travel norms.

Go enjoy the ride there rather than subjecting this country to the insanity of losing freedom to move where you want without the restrictions of train travel.

Or go even further afar and travel to India, which is almost wholly dependent upon that type of people transportation.

[EdinVA]

Wow, a Euro-booster who believes we are all clueless on how Europe has restricted so much of its population to 19th century travel norms.

Go enjoy the ride there rather than subjecting this country to the insanity of losing freedom to move where you want without the restrictions of train travel.

Or go even further afar and travel to India, which is almost wholly dependent upon that type of people transportation.

And then there is this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sygbjOyJmC4

[Absalom]

So, if your so in love with europe, you may go...
Their countries are smaller than most of our states, huge difference in scale.

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Europe's land mass is 3.9 million sq. m, which is 11% greater than the USA at 3.5 million.
As for population, Europe has TWICE as many people!
Try a map!!!

[Cyber Liberty]

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Europe's land mass is 3.9 million sq. m, which is 11% greater than the USA at 3.5 million.
As for population, Europe has TWICE as many people!
Try a map!!!

BFD.  Irrelevant, other than to make the point that we're correct to point out it's the spread out geography that makes the choo-choo unattractive for Americans.  It's not that we are relative barbarians compared to the magnificant Euros, because we're not.

[Hoodat]

The US has 90 cities with a population over 250k.  Europe has three times that number.  Population density in Germany is seven times what it is in the US.

Consider the cities of Paris and Hamburg (total population around 4 million) that stand less than 600 miles apart.  In the gap between the two, you have Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Essen, Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Bremen, Hannover, and Duisburg.  That's twelve cities with populations over a half million.  There is nowhere in the US that comes close to that.

Europe also had the 'advantage' of not having to worry about private property rights after WWII.  So they could build rail wherever they wanted for a population without automobiles.

[sneakypete]

And then there is this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sygbjOyJmC4

@EdinVA

Those people are dumber than that poor mule. Notice how they took the weight off the front of the cart first,instead of taking a few bags off the rear,or even having a couple of them sit on the trailer tongue to counterbalance the weight?

[sneakypete]

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Europe's land mass is 3.9 million sq. m, which is 11% greater than the USA at 3.5 million.
As for population, Europe has TWICE as many people!
Try a map!!!

@Absalom

I am beginning to understand why you are a Dim supporter.

How many nations are on that land mass?

How many nations are on America's land mass?

[EdinVA]

@EdinVA

Those people are dumber than that poor mule. Notice how they took the weight off the front of the cart first,instead of taking a few bags off the rear,or even having a couple of them sit on the trailer tongue to counterbalance the weight?

@sneakypete
The thing that makes me laugh at it is, the donkey does not seem upset so he has been thru it before...

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete
The thing that makes me laugh at it is, the donkey does not seem upset so he has been thru it before...

@EdinVA

Well,he is probably enjoying having a load taken off his feet and back.

[Absalom]

The US has 90 cities with a population over 250k.  Europe has three times that number.  Population density in Germany is seven times what it is in the US.
Consider the cities of Paris and Hamburg (total population around 4 million) that stand less than 600 miles apart.  In the gap between the two, you have Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Essen, Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Bremen, Hannover, and Duisburg.  That's twelve cities with populations over a half million.  There is nowhere in the US that comes close to that.
Europe also had the 'advantage' of not having to worry about private property rights after WWII.  So they could build rail wherever they wanted for a population without automobiles.

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Hoodat, well done as your accurate commentary reminds me of the importance of
having a sense of Time (History) and Place (Geography) when making assertions;
a reality lost on far too many.
 

[sneakypete]

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Hoodat, well done as your accurate commentary reminds me of the importance of
having a sense of Time (History) and Place (Geography) when making assertions;
as reality lost on far too many.

@Hoodat
@Absalom

There is something I think we can all agree on.

[Absalom]

@Absalom
I am beginning to understand why you are a Dim supporter.
How many nations are on that land mass?
How many nations are on America's land mass?

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For the record, I loathe politics, D or R or any other, the hobby horse of toddlers.
Repeating, Europe's land mass is 4 million miles square, comprising some
52 independent nation/states while we are 3.5 million comprising 50 states.

[Cyber Liberty]

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For the record, I loathe politics, D or R or any other, the hobby horse of toddlers.
Repeating, Europe's land mass is 4 million miles square, comprising some
52 independent nation/states while we are 3.5 million comprising 50 states 1 Nation.

Fixed it for you.  Europe has never been a United States, and never will be no matter how much Brussels wants it to be so.  If you  can't see the difference, then there is not much hope for coming to an agreement.  You don't need a Passport (yet) to travel from New York to Arizona.

I think you have Europe Envy, to tell you the truth.  As well versed as you are about World History, you appear to be clueless about American History. In fact, I don't think you even believe there is such a thing.

[Kamaji]

Fixed it for you.  Europe has never been a United States, and never will be no matter how much Brussels wants it to be so.  If you  can't see the difference, then there is not much hope for coming to an agreement.  You don't need a Passport (yet) to travel from New York to Arizona.

I think you have Europe Envy, to tell you the truth.  As well versed as you are about World History, you appear to be clueless about American History. In fact, I don't think you even believe there is such a thing.

A passport isn't needed for European nationals traveling between most of the European countries, either.

[Elderberry]

Did Biden say where the trains were taking the people?

To the Jade Helm Camps?

[Cyber Liberty]

A passport isn't needed for European nationals traveling between most of the European countries, either.

A recent development.  And it's not likely to last, unless Brussels gets its way.

[Kamaji]

A recent development.  And it's not likely to last, unless Brussels gets its way.

36 years is not really recent.  And it is quite likely to last.  The Schengen Agreement predated the EU.

[Absalom]

Fixed it for you.  Europe has never been a United States, and never will be no matter how much Brussels wants it to be so.  If you  can't see the difference, then there is not much hope for coming to an agreement.  You don't need a Passport (yet) to travel from New York to Arizona.
I think you have Europe Envy, to tell you the truth.  As well versed as you are about World History, you appear to be clueless about American History. In fact, I don't think you even believe there is such a thing.

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There was nothing to fix as I was simply using a basic term.
As for American History, it is the heritage/legacy of Europe, essentially England and to a lesser extent, France & Spain.
Obviously, you're desperate for attention and looking for a fight, in which I have no interest, as there is absolutely
nothing to be learned from you, either pro or con. ZERO!

[Cyber Liberty]

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There was nothing to fix as I was simply using a basic term.
As for American History, it is the heritage/legacy of Europe, essentially England and to a lesser extent, France & Spain.
Obviously, you're desperate for attention and looking for a fight, in which I have no interest, as there is absolutely
nothing to be learned from you, either pro or con. ZERO!

Of course you won't learn anything from me...you already know everything.  It suffices to say you don't believe there is an American History. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Of course you won't learn anything from me...you already know everything.  It suffices to say you don't believe there is an American History.

It is a shame isn't it that some have eroded what this country's history is to the extent there is belief that nothing could be learned from this country's origins and development, the monumental effort to begin a new relationship between the government and citizens where the citizens actually decide how the government should work, and we should be looking for history elsewhere back to Europe, where countries were ruled by dictators as the government and who were principally placed there not by merit but by an accident of birth.

For those to long we return to those types of economies and governments is to miss the entirety of what the USA has offered after these almost 250 years.

[sneakypete]

It is a shame isn't it that some have eroded what this country's history is to the extent there is belief that nothing could be learned from this country's origins and development, the monumental effort to begin a new relationship between the government and citizens where the citizens actually decide how the government should work, and we should be looking for history elsewhere back to Europe, where countries were ruled by dictators as the government and who were principally placed there not by merit but by an accident of birth.

For those to long we return to those types of economies and governments is to miss the entirety of what the USA has offered after these almost 250 years.

@IsailedawayfromFR

Funny how so many people want to view America as Europe's "red-headed stepchild",ain't it?

Seems like they all want to completely ignore the prime reason so many Europeans came to America was to get the hell AWAY from the tyranny and corruption of Europe,and live free.

What sucks ever more is that there are so many Americans these days who have been brainwashed to the point they want to see America join the Globar Borg because they seem to think they will get everything for free.

The one thing the world will never suffer from a shortage of is idiots.

[Absalom]

It is a shame isn't it that some have eroded what this country's history is to the extent there is belief that nothing could be learned from this country's origins and development, the monumental effort to begin a new relationship between the government and citizens where the citizens actually decide how the government should work, and we should be looking for history elsewhere back to Europe, where countries were ruled by dictators as the government and who were principally placed there not by merit but by an accident of birth.

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Sure all are entitled to their opinions, yet the above is goofy.
Greece & Rome birthed Western Civilization, Culture and Society, as Gibbon grasped,
spawning the Monarchies that ruled Europe till modern times; most notably in France,
Spain, England, Russia, the Holy Roman Empire (Austria, Hungary, Prussia, among many).
The assertion that these nation/states were ruled by dictators is beyond brainless.