Wow! What's it all mean Mr. Natural?

Corrupt Politicians? Really?

There is no shortage of corruption in Florida, just as there is no shortage in CA, so this ideological bull$#it, that would have you believe that my thieves are better than your thieves is just that....

It's a basic psychological finding that ideological beliefs will cause those who've attached their identity to such beliefs, to accept only evidence that comports to that predisposition, and go reject contradictory evidence....... Eric Hoffer referred to this as "true believer" syndrome.

Developer? Really?

Maybe, what makes Florida's private sector HSR project work better, the that they actually used the "calculus" of profit maximization, which is also the same calculus, we would use to find a minimum cost solution, in a public sector "cost/benefit" analysis...?

Speed, not cost benefit (aka optimized for the max public benefit at minimum public cost), was the sole criteria used in CAHSRA's "visionary" planning.....ain't it great when incompetence meets corruption, and, the rest, as they say, is history...

And, why shouldn't FEC develop its lands around these stations, in conjunction with this very real private sector transportation investment? Isn't this just like various public and private rail systems worldwide? Didn't that "evil" Central Pacific and Union Pacific do this real estate development scheme, too?

Am I missing something "awful" in that free market real estate "reality"? It's somehow an implicit "wrong" motivation for FEC to pursue this project for its investors why?

Of course, after the "revolution" we'll be able to stop those "evil" developers and all that "evil" private property rights nonsense, won't we comrade?

HSR? Yep.......

And, yes, it is indeed within the US definition of HSR, too.