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To: gg cox who wrote (70435)	9/18/2008 11:27:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

GG Mq the Marvelous has been on many bridges. He would build more, and motorways with tolls on them during congested times so that there are no traffic jams. I rail against the socialism of the structures when are more like parking lots than bridges, with queues of cars wasting time sitting in jams. I also rail against the socialism when they are empty white elephants. Even the stone age types built various structures. Note that the socialists built a bridge which killed a lot of people. My bridges wouldn't fail and liability would rest with the builders who would pay if they did a bad job. It's time to move on from the way the Roman Empire built things. Even they did a fairly reasonable job of building things, with some substantial structures still around. Heck even the USSR had some structures which didn't fall down and submarines which didn't sink. It's not that privately owned companies don't do dopey things, but they don't drag everyone down with them. Globalstar management ruined the business with hopeless marketing. But I paid for that, not taxpayers. I couldn't make the management do it right and they lied about how well they were doing as it slid into bankruptcy. Tauranga built a harbour bridge, after decades of delay. It was a huge success. It had a $1 toll on it. They collected a fortune and used the money to build motorways around the area. Then the dopey citizens whined and got politically active because they wanted a "free" bridge. Immediately they got it, there were serious traffic jams and no more road building because the cash was cut off. You'd think they would have learned from Auckland's harbour bridge [same process] and half a century of huge traffic delays. The tolls should have been doubled and tripled at peak times and no charge made during off-peak times. The money could have built more bridges, motorways and information systems, not to mention automated cars to drive on them. NZ could have been the car and transport design centre of the world. Instead it's a socialist bog with productive people fleeing en masse to Oz. Mqurice

To: gg cox who wrote (70435)	9/21/2008 10:57:29 PM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>could you imagine Maurice the magnificent building a bridge like that with his own free market money?<< You'd think he'd move out to the remote wilderness, as far away from Helengrad as possible. Somewhere that he wouldn't have to worry about a nanny-state fire department showing up to quench the flames if his house caught fire. Pure elemental man-against-nature survivalism, without an overbearing health department enforcing sanitation rules. What a beautiful thing it would be to die early and free! ;>)