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Private Sector Investment?
Ok, the nay-sayers will point out all the non-private sector points of this situation, but regardless here’s what is going down. The Federal Government with all their regulatory red tape would hold up the process so much, they’ve moved to fund light rail in Detroit via private means. They’ve collected over $100 Million so far. They’re also talking about getting it built in two years! That’s slightly faster than the 6+ years most of the projects take in Portland, and Portland is pretty snappy about it compared to many cities.
THAT is the kind of action that will rebuild America. All it takes is some private, individualistic, AMERICAN style motivation and we could be booming like nobody could imagine. All the red tape loving, pro-regulatory, screw the individual, political loving ninnies need to move out of the way. If there is ONE THING the US Federal Government (and states in some places) could do to get this country moving again is to make it easier to do things like this. To basically get out of the way of funding and remove the regulatory red tape, the asinine laws, the frivolous anti-business efforts (especially here in Portland) and let us - yeah, you know, the citizenry step up to the plate and get these things done!
Anyway, I know it is hard to tell I’m pro-citizen, pro-individualist, and pro-entrepreneurial effort. It is, after all what built the nation in the first place. It sure as hell wasn’t all the red tape.
With that, I send my congratulations to Detroit! Maybe the city will have a life again one day, rid of the car and moving smoothly on welded rail.
