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In reply to the discussion: Why can't we have nice things like this? [View all]mbperrin
(7,672 posts)99. Not at all familiar with the seizure of assets from US citizens of Japanese descent, are you?
http://www.fear.org/RMillerJ-A.html
Yes, we took it, stole it, sold it, redistributed it to white US citizens who had not taken such good care of their property, and if the Japanese-Americans complained, they were threatened with prison. Since they were already in concentration camps, that threat sounded credible to them.
And we most certainly never compensated Native Americans for everything we simply took at gunpoint from them, either.
So why so squeamish about seizing assets from corporations, who are not even flesh and blood, have no feelings, and suffer no physical nor mental privations?
THIS is what being an American is all about!
Yes, we took it, stole it, sold it, redistributed it to white US citizens who had not taken such good care of their property, and if the Japanese-Americans complained, they were threatened with prison. Since they were already in concentration camps, that threat sounded credible to them.
And we most certainly never compensated Native Americans for everything we simply took at gunpoint from them, either.
So why so squeamish about seizing assets from corporations, who are not even flesh and blood, have no feelings, and suffer no physical nor mental privations?
THIS is what being an American is all about!
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Hey, if ya can't afford your own jet, you DESERVE to ride with the riffraff.
Jackpine Radical
Mar 2014
#45
I've read it's the case that sign is set in concrete to prevent thievery. Probably so.
kairos12
Mar 2014
#48
Nye has it correct. Most people don't want to take three days by rail to get where they need to
Ikonoklast
Mar 2014
#139
the first transcontinental railroad and others were built over people's property
WHEN CRABS ROAR
Mar 2014
#21
yep - "we" don't seem to have a problem building a pipeline on people's property do we ?!
Locrian
Mar 2014
#110
The big problem with many of those routes is that you need a car to get to the station
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#46
I really, really, really, really want to ride on one of those trains some day..
yuiyoshida
Mar 2014
#82
The Northeast, the CA SD-LA-SF corridor, the great lakes region, Northwest Portland - Vancouver
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2014
#134
We could nationalize the petroleum and lumber industries. That alone would knock the Koch
Cleita
Mar 2014
#9
Or at least get better royalties. Why are the Norwegians receiving four times the royalty as we?
Scuba
Mar 2014
#52
Norway had a pro. Our side had literally coked-up shills, literally screwing Big Oil's whores ...
Scuba
Mar 2014
#121
You do realize, don't you, that when a company is nationalized fair compensation needs to be paid?
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#11
It does. I have nothing against private companies doing the next step that is transporting
Cleita
Mar 2014
#44
Private companies are already looking into commandeering fresh water resources, not only
Cleita
Mar 2014
#124
Not at all familiar with the seizure of assets from US citizens of Japanese descent, are you?
mbperrin
Mar 2014
#99
That, and the fact that we at least nominally respect labor and environmental rules.
Brickbat
Mar 2014
#34
Is that the train that the taxpayers are going to pay for so the wealthy can shuttle back and forth
rhett o rick
Mar 2014
#70
No. And for general info, the "wealthy" FLY to Vegas. Freight has the right of way down Cajon Pass
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#77
Bullet Train Envy is getting to be like what I've read about Penis Envy.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#79
Did anyone mention the corruption involved in all this railway spending and the poor construction?
sammytko
Mar 2014
#112
Yes, they're doubling their fleet, from one to two, neither of which will be nuclear powered.
Scuba
Mar 2014
#128
Their "aircraft carriers" aren't much more than helicopter platforms.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2014
#136
Two aircraft-carrier task forces for each of the seven oceans is an essential element to
indepat
Mar 2014
#143
The only times I've ridden trains (bullet or otherwise) has been on European vacations.
Hamilton Felix
Mar 2014
#146