Re: #Why Amtrak is dying when we need it the most

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 01:11:47 +0000 (UTC), spooge
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>Steve <stevencanyon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:18:59 GMT, "The God of Odd Statements, Henry
>> Schmidt" <popesnarky.godofodd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>> 
>>>On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:57:16 -0400, Steve did most oddly state:
>>>> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:49:05 -0700, mariposas rand mair fheal wrote:
>>>>> Steve wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:05:52 -0700, mariposas rand mair fheal
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Steve wrote:
>>>>>> >> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:22:53 GMT, David Johnston wrote:
>>>>>> >> >On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:57:15 -0400, Steve wrote:
>>>>>> >> >>On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:39:39 -0700, mariposas rand mair fheal
>>>>>> >> >>wrote:
>>>>>> >> >>> Steve wrote:
>>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>>> >> >>>> >be specific
>>>>>> >> >>>> >list anything you think is necessary service and show to
>>>>>> >> >>>> >make it pay for
>>>>>> >> >>>> >itself
>>>>>> >> >>>> >and what you dont list one can assume you claim is not
>>>>>> >> >>>> >necessary
>>>>>> >> >>>> 
>>>>>> >> >>>> <LOL>   Any and all of what you mentioned..   for
>>>>>> >> >>>> instance, if people believe that police and firemen are
>>>>>> >> >>>> necessary, they will pay for them..  of course, there are
>>>>>> >> >>>> those that might not be able to pay for them...   too
>>>>>> >> >>>> bad..... 
>>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>>> >> >>>okay
>>>>>> >> >>>so your idea of successful society denies necessities to
>>>>>> >> >>>poor people
>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>> >> >>I'm not denying anything...  I'm just to wiling to pay for it
>>>
>>>I can't parse that -- "to wiling"? 
>> 
>> Anyway, who said *you* were "denying"
>> 
>> "just not to willing"
>> 
>>>Anyway, who said *you* were "denying"
>> 
>> Se above..  "so your idea of ..... "
>> 
>>>anything? "So your idea of [a] successful society denies necessities
>>>to poor people." That isn't about what you would deny.
>> 
>> Yeah, it is...
>> 
>>>>>> >> >That's an intriguing idea.  It means for example that you can
>>>>>> >> >expect fires that spread across most of the city destroying
>>>>>> >> >most of it because the fire fighters only respond to them
>>>>>> >> >after the situation is utterly uncontrollable.
>>>>>> >> 
>>>>>> >> That's a ridiculous claim..   a private fire brigade would
>>>>>> >> spring into action any time their customers requested them...
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >what private fire brigade?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You poor thing...   are you having trouble keeping up?
>>>>>
>>>>>no answer
>>>>>
>>>>>i win
>>>> 
>>>> <LOL>  You win an award for making an ignorant reply?
>>>
>>>He wins your foam. 
>> 
>> <LOL> Like your opinion is worth anything?  
>> 
>>>Moffitt's, too. I note you still haven't answered the
>>>question: What private fire brigade?
>> 
>> 
>> You must be another loser leftist with a reading disability..  did
>> anyone say there was a private fire brigade?
>
>That would be... you:

Nope..   Sorry..  I made a reference to what a theoretical private
fire brigade would or could do, but I never suggested that I knew of
such an entity...    perhaps if you had a better education you'd
understand that a person might identify an entity without claiming
that it actually existed...    

Example:  the sentence, "you're as dumb as a box of rocks" does not
suggest that I know of any particular box of rocks.