It never pays for itself, you actually end up net losing jobs, when your public sector has to lay government workers off, in order to pay for the high speed train sinkhole disaster.Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote: Laying rail is a jobs program that generates economic activity. Design and construction too. R&D can generate technologies you can sell off.
Keep all your negative anti-train nonsense to yourself.
You pay for products and services, and as a shareholder, I provide you with those products and services, and I make a profit, for example, with the two-for-one stock split in 1998, Lockheed Martin has paid 2000% in 20 years.If the MIC is turning such a sick profit, then why is it still in the budget? Should be paying for itself by now... if it isn't a Keynesian boondoggle we throw money at and all.
Amtrak doesn't make a dime, even with the government shoveling money into it, it still loses a billion a year, which is an annual operating loss of 5%
Over twenty years, Lockheed Martin has paid me back 20 times over, while Amtrak has gone bankrupt and then you had to bail it out.
You lefties and your bloody trains, the only train cars you should be on, is the train cars to subhuman cockroach ville, maybe that's another thing Americans can do in Idaho, they can resettle you lefties too, resettle you in the air that is...