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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 187056" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>I dare say the hypocrisy is likely to continue to grow if current trends continue to hold.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0416/p01s04-usec.html" target="_blank">As US tax rates drop, government's reach grows | csmonitor.com</a></p><p> </p><p>I wonder if it's hypocrisy or is it the fact that gov't has grown so massive and reaches into so many areas that it's impossible to avoid the conflict of interest? Not defending Pribonic at all but rather just asking the question. I'll even conceed that I'm likely to benefit from gov't subsidation in some way via UPS itself. UPS is granted gov't permission to fly here or there or carry this or that over others which at the end of the day gives UPS more profits and thus I recieve more pay and benefits as a result. So am I now a hypocrite for pointing this out and calling it wrong? If so, then I gladly accept the title of hypocrite and I will continue to call it wrong as long as it exists. </p><p> </p><p>But getting back to the original point, the observation was made about the scene that suggests the laying of track was done purely for boosting profits in building the railroad rather than building a most efficent time and fuel savings pathway. In other words, an open checkbook boosted by taxpayer pockets became the motive rather than building a proper, efficent railroad. </p><p> </p><p>In our day of energy troubles, what might we find if we went back and looked real hard at road pathways as they exist now and compare to what was possible at the time? Might we find numerous situations like our railroad example where miles and miles of roadway were added just to fatten the pockets of the blessed contractors? Now in this day and age we could possibly be traveling 10/15/20 extra miles in a 100 so that the politically connected companies could profit? What does mean for our energy situation? And what about global warming and air quality? Even that extra train track, in the last 150 years years how much extra pollution got dumped into the air as a result of that extra track?</p><p> </p><p>A messenger may indeed be the hypocrite suggested and I'll even conceed that point, but the appearance by someone to defend a gov't system by attacking the messenger and trying to avoid the observation itself would make me wonder just where they might stand on the scale of hyprocrisy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 187056, member: 2189"] I dare say the hypocrisy is likely to continue to grow if current trends continue to hold. [url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0416/p01s04-usec.html]As US tax rates drop, government's reach grows | csmonitor.com[/url] I wonder if it's hypocrisy or is it the fact that gov't has grown so massive and reaches into so many areas that it's impossible to avoid the conflict of interest? Not defending Pribonic at all but rather just asking the question. I'll even conceed that I'm likely to benefit from gov't subsidation in some way via UPS itself. UPS is granted gov't permission to fly here or there or carry this or that over others which at the end of the day gives UPS more profits and thus I recieve more pay and benefits as a result. So am I now a hypocrite for pointing this out and calling it wrong? If so, then I gladly accept the title of hypocrite and I will continue to call it wrong as long as it exists. But getting back to the original point, the observation was made about the scene that suggests the laying of track was done purely for boosting profits in building the railroad rather than building a most efficent time and fuel savings pathway. In other words, an open checkbook boosted by taxpayer pockets became the motive rather than building a proper, efficent railroad. In our day of energy troubles, what might we find if we went back and looked real hard at road pathways as they exist now and compare to what was possible at the time? Might we find numerous situations like our railroad example where miles and miles of roadway were added just to fatten the pockets of the blessed contractors? Now in this day and age we could possibly be traveling 10/15/20 extra miles in a 100 so that the politically connected companies could profit? What does mean for our energy situation? And what about global warming and air quality? Even that extra train track, in the last 150 years years how much extra pollution got dumped into the air as a result of that extra track? A messenger may indeed be the hypocrite suggested and I'll even conceed that point, but the appearance by someone to defend a gov't system by attacking the messenger and trying to avoid the observation itself would make me wonder just where they might stand on the scale of hyprocrisy! [/QUOTE]
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