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Re: The line is not dead yet
Author: Steve Carter
Date: 01-05-2012 - 12:48
Mike Swanson Wrote:
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> Oh? And what makes you think they won't be forced
> out next? Hmmm? Or that UP won't "convince" them
> to switch over to trucks? Or just abandon the line
> due to a lack of traffic? Like Carol said, people
> there are not industry-friendly; they don't want
> some smelly, noisy, ugly railroad and the equally
> unwanted customers it serves "ruining our property
> values" or some crap like that.
>
> Makes me glad I left in 1995 and never came back;
> there's no way I could live in the Bay Area or the
> San Joaquin Valley (or anywhere else in
> California, for that matter) after all of the crap
> that's happened since, and certainly not with the
> elected idiots continuing to ruin things there.
> And no, I am not slamming anyone who still lives
> in CA; I realize a lot of you have jobs, family
> there, or a dozen other perfectly good reasons not
> to leave (or why you can't leave, as the case may
> be). I was born and raised there when it was still
> a decent place to live and work, and if California
> hadn't gone downhill like it has I'd still be
> there. It has though, and it really hurts to have
> seen it happen, even if only from a distance, and
> it angers me to see that the same sort of clowns
> (or the very same clowns, including Governor
> Moonbeam) who helped cause it all (or did nothing
> to stop it, which amounts to the same thing) are
> still at it; term limits don't help much when one
> idiot gets replaced by another.
>
You stole my thunder (rant)!! - California Native and Escapee!
It's possible torecognizesiast, and still be able to regocnize and comment on the realties of a situation.
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> Oh? And what makes you think they won't be forced
> out next? Hmmm? Or that UP won't "convince" them
> to switch over to trucks? Or just abandon the line
> due to a lack of traffic? Like Carol said, people
> there are not industry-friendly; they don't want
> some smelly, noisy, ugly railroad and the equally
> unwanted customers it serves "ruining our property
> values" or some crap like that.
>
> Makes me glad I left in 1995 and never came back;
> there's no way I could live in the Bay Area or the
> San Joaquin Valley (or anywhere else in
> California, for that matter) after all of the crap
> that's happened since, and certainly not with the
> elected idiots continuing to ruin things there.
> And no, I am not slamming anyone who still lives
> in CA; I realize a lot of you have jobs, family
> there, or a dozen other perfectly good reasons not
> to leave (or why you can't leave, as the case may
> be). I was born and raised there when it was still
> a decent place to live and work, and if California
> hadn't gone downhill like it has I'd still be
> there. It has though, and it really hurts to have
> seen it happen, even if only from a distance, and
> it angers me to see that the same sort of clowns
> (or the very same clowns, including Governor
> Moonbeam) who helped cause it all (or did nothing
> to stop it, which amounts to the same thing) are
> still at it; term limits don't help much when one
> idiot gets replaced by another.
>
You stole my thunder (rant)!! - California Native and Escapee!
It's possible torecognizesiast, and still be able to regocnize and comment on the realties of a situation.
