Get what you pay for.....

Knowledge is the universal key that opens all doors.

In Scotland, they’re testing an amphibious bus that would supposedly eliminate the need for a ferryboat....C’mon, unless every single vehicle is amphibious, they’ll still need a ferry...or a bridge....
In California, well, in other parts of the USA also, the ubiquitous ‘they’ are touting the advantage of high-speed rail....to hear ‘em talk, HSR will save the environment by negating the necessity of automobiles....Right!...Mass transit is actually a good idea, given our population of over 300 million ‘n growing but high-speed rail will NEVER move very many people over vast distances....the multi-billion dollar (or more) cost of high-speed rail can never be recouped by selling tickets to ride....c’mon, it’s all a scam to separate taxpayers from their shrinking dollar...sort of a redistribution of wealth process whereby the government takes money from the people ‘n gives it to the already wealthy....(Y’know, what they didn’t tell you in the Robin Hood legend was that the famed outlaw took a percentage of what he stole to cover his expenses) ‘n in the bread’n circuses atmosphere of the p’litical arena, what our ‘esteemed leaders’ never quite spell out for the ‘mob’ is that after they tax the rich to give to the poor, there won’t be anything left after they take their expenses....ah well, hope springs eternal.....
What we really need is a low-speed, low-cost mass transportation system that actually works...the problem with what we have now is the self-same problem that we have with the California School system....too many Chief’s ‘n not enuff Indians...the State of California has lots ‘n lots of poor students trying to scrape up enuff money to pay for the inflated egos of Chancellors ‘n Administrators....I really don’t know why a student sleeping in a closet should have to bear the burden of a Chancellors million dollar home...I mean, OMG! A person with a million dollar a year salary can’t afford to pay his own living expenses....Jeez!
and on a related note, I read that if Meg Whitman is elected Governor of our fair state, like Arnold, she is going to refuse a salary...I’m not sure if we c’n afford another Governor who works for free.....