Texas judge warns of possible ‘civil war’ if President Obama

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Ike also had the resume to be trusted with such things. Let's see now, if our current preznit wanted to do something like that, the only time he ever got his hands dirty from a job that payed taxes (choom patches don't count), that would be at Baskin Robbins ice cream. His rabble rous...I mean...community organizing, law journal editing, and taking bribes from financial and mortgage companies (better known as just another day at the office in congress) doesn't breed confidence with the public in his ability to manage infrastructure projects even if he wanted to pull his head or thumb out (take your pick) and try to get it done.

True, and the other guy is no better, he would contract the job to China.

As long as we have the "Two Gang" mentality, the gangs win.

With all construction going through a Pork Phase, funding being something the bankers borrow for nothing, and then loan out at 7%, major construction is just feeding the sharks.

Still, there are other ways. It is a set background, North America, and there are natural resources, The Great Lakes, and trade routes, and population centers.

The first problem is design. Someone will object to anything, so let us start with a most useful anything.

The population and economy is located upper east coast, Ohio Valley, and west coast. shipping is to Asia, and Europe. We need a land bridge where goods can flow and our people can add value.

The recent floods in the Mississippi Valley have shown the problems with levees, confining the river confined the silt, now in a dry phase, the river is too shallow for barge traffic. That has been the midwest's path to export, With the changing climate that is not a good long term bet, and a lot is bet on getting the grain to world markets.

Transport, power, water, fuel, are all fragmented and subject to failure.

There are only so many natural paths across the country.

A system that would support future need would design it's self.

It is always cheaper to build now,

Having a plan for the future will bring that future.

All previous transportion routes have soon been fully booked. 200 mile an hour trains running from the Atlantic to Pacific, electric, and forming the backbone of an underground supercooled grid, will derive income from saving energy.

This can be run on the energy lost in above ground transmission lines. It also allows production to not be tied to local demand, and producing full power all the time is cheaper power.

Our vision of a better future does not come from politics. Look at them, they ever seek new lows in pandering. They have no goal but being elected or reelected, and if even 10% of the Citizens demanded a nationally owned power grid, and high speed train line, it would be pandered to.

I am getting sick of these lunatic Teabaggers.

Seconded.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Actually the lunatic Teabaggers might make a good sitcom, remember Archie Bunker.

This Anglican prefers the more creative maledictions, such as:

God shrivel their manhood.
May they be trampled by a herd of mustangs--a slow herd.
That freak has five fathers.
Unfit to clean toilets in the brothel where he was born.
Mother of sixty camels.
(et fr*gg*ng cetera)

I would say that this judge casts a bad light on Texas, but I'm pretty certain the lights haven't been on for a while now.

I'll weigh in. We have to basic thought processes in this (USA) country and generally around the world. One side tends to be the producers, movers and shakers, people who work hard and want to enjoy the fruits of their labor and well as share it as long as they get compensated for it and credit. There is the other side where they feel they are entitled to things, things the producers make where they should get if for free. These views are 180 degrees out of phase and it seems like both sides are digging in.

Both sides do have their subdivisions like on the right you have the libertarians/Alex P. Keaton fiscal conservatives (I fall in this bloc) and the social conservatives who tend to be more religious. I also have social conservative views personally, but as a libertarian, I just feel it is not the government's place to enforce a lot of the social conservative policies. You can cross into tyranny, I don't want to see it from either side be it leftist PC communism or an American equivalent of a Taliban. The left is divided too into many special interest groups, some compatible with each other, sometimes not.

Still it threatens to tear us apart. We can't keep going on this road fiscally either. We could crash no matter what. There is also the problem of scarcity, you have to work to make things, mine the raw materials and make them into something, adding value. The owner and worker both want to be paid for their labors and well as talent. Same with the suppliers and on.

There is anger on both sides, maybe there should be a peaceful separation. It would be nice of the takers would wise up and understand we cannot give everything to everybody, sure you need a safety net for those who need it but we can't let everyone camp in it. The worst case is if we may have to use the Russian/Soviet option, if we have to fight, fight to win, if you cannot win, do not lose. This will be messy. I don't feel comfortable talking about this but we need to realize that there are so many things we can and cannot do. Capitalism has it's shortcomings, everything does but it is the best way to address scarcity until we can make things with replicators using almost unlimited energy, ala Star Trek.

We are approaching the point of irreconcilable differences unfortunately and there will be a point where Atlas will Shrug or tire out.