{"id":14079,"date":"2011-02-15T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14079"},"modified":"2011-02-15T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T22:40:02","slug":"joe-biden-was-in-philly-to-pitch-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14079\/joe-biden-was-in-philly-to-pitch-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Was In Philly To Pitch High-Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and I swear, before he finished his speech<\/a>, he channeled his inner Harold Hill<\/a>, just to convince the rubes in the vernacular:<\/p>\n

Seventy-six small towns on the big rail line
\nOver a hundred and ten miles of track, to nowhere
\nThey were followed by recyclable trash cans, dotted all across
\nthe Land, the cream of the climate changin’ scare<\/p>\n

Seventy-six rail cars caught the mornin’ sun.
\nWith a hundred and ten passengers lounged within.
\nThere were more than a thousand engineers
\nWatching all the gears
\nWith a horn, signalin’ the big green train was near!<\/p>\n

There were union bosses, activists, and ne’er do wells.
\nLooting, looting,\u00a0 all along the way.
\nEarmarks, tax credits, “Gee, ain’t it swell?””
\nEach politician,\u00a0 having his big, fat say!<\/p>\n

There were fifty miles of track in the far off desert.
\nExplorin’, explorin’ where noone had been before
\nAn industry to subsidize
\nAll voters get a free ride!
\nAt last!\u00a0 We’ll even up the score!<\/p>\n

Seventy-six short years is the cost recoup
\nOver a hundred and ten agencies, will oversee
\nYou’ll no longer see coughing, sputtering cars, dotted all across
\nthe Land, just high speed rail, from sea to shinin’ sea!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love a good musical so I’m looking forward to Robert Preston<\/span> Joe Biden’s speech in Ioway.<\/p>\n

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…and I swear, before he finished his speech, he channeled his inner Harold Hill, just to convince the rubes in the vernacular: Seventy-six small towns on the big rail line Over a hundred and ten miles of track, to nowhere They were followed by recyclable trash cans, dotted all across the Land, the cream of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,494],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-enduring-interest","7":"category-the-hustle","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":803,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/803\/not-just-any-fools-heavy-on-the-light-rail-propaganda-please\/","url_meta":{"origin":14079,"position":0},"title":"Not just any fools: Heavy on the light rail propaganda, please . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost three years ago, The Goldwater Institute, a free-market think tank in Phoenix, published a devastating accounting of the light rail system now being built in Metropolitan Phoenix:[The Maricopa Association of Governments]'s public transit plans deserve close scrutiny. 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