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Any word on financing--are companies eager, or are there state or larger players ready to put up some money?

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Sat Mar 24th, 2007 at 08:14:27 AM EST
Now this is where it gets interesting....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Mar 24th, 2007 at 08:24:21 AM EST
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This is a very small part of the rail side of Energize America ... the issue of whether a master map is required (which is a political minefield) or whether a criteria based accounts system can be put into place.

But the argument we are going to be pushing is that this should be treated on an equal basis with interstate highways and airports, with an 80/20 federal/local split.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Mar 24th, 2007 at 06:18:59 PM EST
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