tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3669573460103667067..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Spending Like There IS A TomorrowThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39609426533278127122008-10-21T16:46:00.000-07:002008-10-21T16:46:00.000-07:00That should read CN Railway. MorrisThat should read CN Railway. MorrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-24322262785025254052008-10-21T00:21:00.000-07:002008-10-21T00:21:00.000-07:00MOS....I'm all for railways. It wasn't my intenti...MOS....I'm all for railways. It wasn't my intention to leave you with the opinion I don't. As I see it, change is what most people can't deal with....even you so you say. I live in a country where train service is excellent. I use it all the time. As for Canada, a train hauling system is the best, the best way to go. However, I do see where some reluctance would exist. In Newfoundland, CPP took out the whole rail system and that province could definitely use rail freight movement. A. MorrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-21847813818905099542008-10-20T18:16:00.000-07:002008-10-20T18:16:00.000-07:00Well, M., I don't see the shift from trucking to r...Well, M., I don't see the shift from trucking to rail as quite so problematic as you suggest. I believe that, before long, world oil prices will dictate the adoption of the most fuel-efficient transportation for long-haul shipping. That, and of course, the fossil fuel/carbon issue. <BR/><BR/>We live in a world that has become dependent on long-haul shipping but the cost factor is already becoming problematical to producers, retailers and consumers alike. Truckers themselves are feeling the pinch and may be squeezed out.<BR/><BR/>Things change. I often wish they didn't but they do and that leaves us to change and find the best strategies to adapt.<BR/><BR/>We're only beginning to understand how unregulated corporatism can cause as much harm as good, sometimes less, sometimes more. <BR/><BR/>We're on the edge of an era of widesweeping and fundamental change that will cause us to remodel our societies, our economics and perhaps even our politics.<BR/><BR/>Look at the forces at work today: population migration, freshwater exhaustion, resource depletion, species extinction, desertification, overpopulation and, yes, global warming. As jared Diamond explains in his terrific book "Collapse" we have to deal with each and every one of these problems. We have to solve them all. It won't do to solve all but one. That simply won't work.<BR/><BR/>So, something as logical as reverting longhaul shipping to rail instead of trucking not only makes sense, but it will become just another adaptation technique.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-13432685459094205742008-10-20T17:56:00.000-07:002008-10-20T17:56:00.000-07:00"Of course it will take a government with real vis..."Of course it will take a government with real vision to recognize the opportunities and exploit them for the benefit of the country. I doubt very much that's within the scope of the one-dimensional administration we have today."<BR/><BR/> It will be up to the people of <BR/>Canada to care enough and make the government do it. Oh!! For the love of country...don't become to Nationalistic...a good dose of "my country first" could do Canada a lot of good. On the other hand, how many trucking companies will go under with a 21st century introduction of the latest railway system? And what do you think any government would do if pressured enough not to build the same? It's like trying to put into force, a decent wage for working people......employers don't want to hear it and so governments ignore it. The mind-set has to be changed and the only place that is going to happen is in schools beginning now. It will take 12 years and an additional four years before those people hit the employment system. However, a group of people hammering the point could make a difference to tunneled vision fundamentalists. MorrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-42493242654326006162008-10-20T12:59:00.000-07:002008-10-20T12:59:00.000-07:00No, doz, I can't and that's why I expressed my res...No, doz, I can't and that's why I expressed my reservation at the one-dimensional leadership we now face. Reconstruction, revitalization are, by their nature, genuinely progressive undertakings.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65105344077828872462008-10-20T12:56:00.000-07:002008-10-20T12:56:00.000-07:00Can you name a single conservative government anyw...Can you name a single conservative government anywhere that, in the past 25 years, has run a budget deficit to finance infrastructure projects rather than tax cuts and foreign wars?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65296160461699898682008-10-20T10:09:00.000-07:002008-10-20T10:09:00.000-07:00And thank you very much for that Joseph, you damne...And thank you very much for that Joseph, you damned pinko!The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-90577535704268995112008-10-20T10:02:00.000-07:002008-10-20T10:02:00.000-07:00Sounds like socialism to me.(grin, i couldn't resi...Sounds like socialism to me.<BR/><BR/>(grin, i couldn't resist)<BR/><BR/>Excellent points.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com