Re: BEFORE Trying To Simply Hike the Fuel Tax . . .

Day Brown wrote:
> Les Cargill wrote:
>>> Not that this idea is going to go anywhere mind you. Nobody in the 
>>> political elite with the power to do anything reads what we post.
>>
>> That's for sure.
> Polite discourse appreciated. Rationality is over the top. Thanx.

But that's what we always end up doing. Somebody gets tired of gnashing 
teeth, rolls up the sleeves, and stuff starts happening.

> But- I 
> cant help but wonder if the fact that we can work things out here in 
> secret- would not result in some kind of opportunity for us.
> 

Meh. Not likely. Maybe, but it'd be a large job, and you need
inside people who know what's what.

> While the net has always had whackos saying the schitt was gonna hit the

> fan, only one of them hasta be right about when, even if for the wrong 
> reasons. The power elites suffer from group think just like everyone 
> else.

Sure. They even have to try to herd the cats. We say "power elite", but
they working for *us*, truth be told. The top guy at WalMart, the one
who does interviews, knows who his customer is.

We're just not a very good boss.

> But thinking outside the box may take practice, such as this 
> exercise on what to do with the rail right of way, and then lead on to 
> something we can personally make use of.
> 

We'll see. I imagine that the railroads have white papers gathering dust
with Plans on them. This is a good time to be a railroad.

> I can see how the Fed, with the M3 money supply, can drive the stock 
> market up any time they want, or let it fall as far as they want just by

> dumping the stock they already bought. So, for small investors who dont 
> have the inside info on when that will happen, its a fool's game.
> 

I dunno. People who buy 401k plans usually ignore them and they mostly
do fine.

> So many realized that, they went into real estate thinking they knew 
> what they were investing in. So now, there must still be a large pool of

> middle class money with no idea of where to put it.
> 

You got it. Right now, it's inching towards what I'll call
"hedge funds" ( but they're not ) and driving the price
of commodities through the roof.

> If you recall, 20 months ago the big four precious metals houses 
> colluded to dump silver contracts, and dropped the price from 15$ to 9$ 
> over nite.

Yup. And the Hunt Brothers are also big in railroads...

> One of my correspondents told me he got taken on that deal. I 
> dont doubt they have found the means to manipulate precious metals as 
> well. There are innumerable boomers who have figured this out also, but 
> I've no notion of what they will try to do about it.
> 
> They may all end up living in FEMA trailers.


It's not likely. After all, you have people with stuff, people who
want stuff, and they trade. Everything else is window
dressing.

--
Les Cargill