US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Xarpho's Return dijo:
The problem is that it's hideously expensive to run a business. Domino's was founded on a $500 down payment, just about less than $5,500 today. There is no scenario where you can buy an existing operating restaurant in an area with traffic, for less than $10k. I think all these businesses being so indebted to the bank means they put more pressure on selling out.
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this is directly related to my previous post about people selling land away from their kin

if the generation of our parents and grandparents had been thinking even the eensiest bit about handing over a world worth living in to us, they wouldn't have blithely destroyed the foundation of freedom, the ability to make a living owning your own fucking business

the choking regulations and taxes didn't just grow like weeds, they were constructed and voted on and approved. by people.
 
mold dijo:
this is directly related to my previous post about people selling land away from their kin

if the generation of our parents and grandparents had been thinking even the eensiest bit about handing over a world worth living in to us, they wouldn't have blithely destroyed the foundation of freedom, the ability to make a living owning your own fucking business

the choking regulations and taxes didn't just grow like weeds, they were constructed and voted on and approved. by people.
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don't forget insurance
sure, there's no _law_ about suchandsuch regulation but whoopsy doodle you can't operate without insurance and they can decide whatever the fuck they want
 
mold dijo:
trains are so much better than buses, are you not a human being
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Yeah they’re better, but that’s offset by the need to go to a station to get on one

Example: I live in NH. If I want to go to Boston, I can

A: drive for an hour and pay too much to park

B: drive :40 to the light rail station in Lowell, pay reasonable parking, get on a train that has six or seven stops and takes another hour to get in

C: drive :50 minutes to Alewife station, pay reasonable parking, essentially already be on the subway system

D: take an express bus from a stop I can walk to, cheaply, not have to worry about parking
 
mold dijo:
I wish this issue wasn't so partisan coded. We should have trains for the distances that other people in civilized places have trains for. People talk about the size of the US as if that's an obstacle as if coast to coast travel is the normal long distance travel, it's completely retarded. I don't want to take a train from LA to NY, I don't even want to take a train from LA to Houston really, but yes I want to take a train from SF to Seattle. I mean I don't actually want to be in either SF or Seattle but you get the point.
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It's not partisan to say that copy and pasting another country's solution to better transit won't work. It just frustrates people who don't understand and who want things because in their minds different/more=better. I'll give you an example of exactly what you're asking for. Behold the Illinois metra Network.
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As you can see there's literally hundreds of train stations outside of the city reaching out over 40 miles away. If you work in the heart of Chicago you can functionality live anywhere within 50/60 miles away and take the train. You could even reasonably live in Kenosha Wisconsin, even Ohio, and still reliably commute via train into Chicago.

Isn't strange that the people who ask for more trains to commute don't sing the metra's praises? That's because it's shit, it's so shit that the majority of people in these areas who work in Chicago commute by car and clog the highways every morning and evening. But why is it shit? Because it's run by the state and tax money, just like in Europe and Asia. The problem isn't that we need better trains, the problem is we need better management of the trains, we need an American solution because it's an American problem. Until we have people who kick the homeless, drug addicts and other rifraff off the trains, maintenance them properly and staff them adequately there's no point in investing in more trains. This is why you see people disagree with the premise. Whenever I see someone advocating for more trains and not for better management all I hear is higher taxes, more homeless, more niggers and another thing that will be neglected. All so we can have this conversation again in 10 years. Now if you want to talk about making trains great again in America I'm all in on that.
 
Pod 042 dijo:
But why is it shit? Because it's run by the state and tax money
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everyone knows chicago metro transit is shit because the surrounding townships don't want negros able to ride it to rob them

I cannot believe you wrote all of that while ignoring the actual issue

who the fuck wants to live in kenosha and work in downtown chicago? nobody wants to do that. people want to live in oak whatever, oak lawn, oak park, all those places, where trains and buses do not go because we all know why.
 
mold dijo:
I wish this issue wasn't so partisan coded. We should have trains for the distances that other people in civilized places have trains for. People talk about the size of the US as if that's an obstacle as if coast to coast travel is the normal long distance travel, it's completely retarded. I don't want to take a train from LA to NY, I don't even want to take a train from LA to Houston really, but yes I want to take a train from SF to Seattle. I mean I don't actually want to be in either SF or Seattle but you get the point.
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@Pod 042 tldr Not enough Americans want public transportation because nobody wants to deal with the what the American "public" has become.
 
clever handle dijo:
Aren't subways trains? I think NYC would beg to disagree.
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It’s like this

For example, in the Boston area, all trains are under the MBTA but colloquially, the trains that make up the subway system and go out to the immediate suburbs are referred to by their color, e.g. “orange line” IMG_9032.jpeg
But for whatever reason, the big purple trains that go out to regional locations and do not share track with the subway system, we call “the t”
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There’s a hundred places to get on a color train, but for the T, there’s north station and south station
 
Rail freight service has always had precedence over passenger rail in the US. The US government had to pay the railroads to build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s and 70s, and the Union pacific had to over-bill the government to even break even on the deal.

outside of the cities passenger rail was only a tacked on service to freight, and usually never turned a profit. In my part of Kentucky passenger service only lasted 40 years. 1948-1984. most stops on that line were closed though by the late 1950s. If the railroad could not justify passenger service during the heyday of coal mining here i don't see how it could anywhere today.
 
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