With the power change in the Legislative branch of our government there has been new challenges to Obama's high speed rail idea. They say that more than half of the 10 billion used to create rails has gone to rails that do not support high speed trains. It has gone to build slow conventional trains.“That train is dead,” john kasich said. A couple of the projects have already grinded down to a stop now that republicans are in control of certains states with federal train money.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/us/18rail.html?ref=politics
We need to continue with expanding our train network. For a nation that is all about being green and other stuff the rails are super effective in minimalizing energy used. Our freight trains can move 100,000 tones of freight 1 mile with 1 gallon of fuel. That is unbelievable. This country was built on the iron and steel of the rails and thats where it belongs. Who cares if its not high speed rails were building now. Those will come in the future. I mean you can't just build a high speed infrastructure over night. It just wont work but Barack Obama is starting a movement. No a revolution. A revolution continues it never stops it continues around and around forever and hopefully it will continue until our nation it connected from corner to corner by trains that can move passengers at an alarmingly fast rate for minimal fuel. Eventually it will be maglev trains which if there was a train from new york to florida it would take less than a hour to make it down there and would cost about 10 cents per passenger. Now that is where our country should be and Obama is trying to get us there. If you want to really move forward you have to commit to an idea. The republicans wont do that and thats why our country isn't getting anywhere with their ideas. Main idea is we have to continue with the infrastructure its the only way well get anywhere.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
An End to Don't Ask Don't Tell? - Political Stuff
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada is opposing republicans and is trying to repeal the Don't ask Don't tell policy in our nations armed forces. He has met stiff strong opposition from John Mccain who doesn't want the policy to be repealed. Reid however has gotten support from the president on this matter who wants to repeal this policy. This bill has received support from various other senators and military personel who want to see the policy removed by the end of this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/us/politics/18gays.html?_r=1&ref=politics
I personally support gay rights and have no problem with the lifestyle choices of gays. But i do not think that taking away the don't ask don't tell policy will have adverse effects on our military. Senator Ried said “We need to repeal this discriminatory policy so that any American who wants to defend our country can do so,”. This policy does not stop gays from defending our country. Anyone is allowed to do so but they can not say that they are gay to anyone in the military. A lot of people say they wouldn't care if they repealed the policy but i believe there would be a large portion of our military that would have a problem with knowing one of their fellow soldiers is gay. The don't Ask don't Tell policy isn't keeping gays from being gay its just keeping them telling people they are gay which could end up with inner conflict with in our military. I would rather see the policy stay then see on the news how a gay soldier died because a fellow soldier who is against gays didn't help him in a time of need. And i am certain we would see many stories of things like this. I don't like the policy anymore than everyone else but its in place to help the majority of people which is what we should be doing. Its a one for all kind of scenario. The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few. I know thats its not a need but it would keep the peace like it has done. So for once i disagree with the democrats on this situation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/us/politics/18gays.html?_r=1&ref=politics
I personally support gay rights and have no problem with the lifestyle choices of gays. But i do not think that taking away the don't ask don't tell policy will have adverse effects on our military. Senator Ried said “We need to repeal this discriminatory policy so that any American who wants to defend our country can do so,”. This policy does not stop gays from defending our country. Anyone is allowed to do so but they can not say that they are gay to anyone in the military. A lot of people say they wouldn't care if they repealed the policy but i believe there would be a large portion of our military that would have a problem with knowing one of their fellow soldiers is gay. The don't Ask don't Tell policy isn't keeping gays from being gay its just keeping them telling people they are gay which could end up with inner conflict with in our military. I would rather see the policy stay then see on the news how a gay soldier died because a fellow soldier who is against gays didn't help him in a time of need. And i am certain we would see many stories of things like this. I don't like the policy anymore than everyone else but its in place to help the majority of people which is what we should be doing. Its a one for all kind of scenario. The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few. I know thats its not a need but it would keep the peace like it has done. So for once i disagree with the democrats on this situation.
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