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Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union
Mr.Intel writes "Last night's State of the Union Address contained ten things (and four outrages) technical professionals need to know about the President's plans, and how his policies might affect you, your employer, and your family well into the future."
Actually, the *entire* rail thing is a fucking joke. It's ridiculously expensive and isn't all that fast. It does have to, you know, make plenty of stops. It's essentially more corporate welfare for specific companies. Americans like to talk about "high speed bullet trains", because it makes them feel all sophisticated and European, but they have no fucking clue what's really supposedly so great about it.
Also, they've already proposed greater attention to bus and rail travel, as far as security. The idea that they would somehow not impose the same violations of your liberty on trains is absurd. (And they already flag you for paying in cash for a train ticket).
The real outrage of the whole fucking thing is the idea that we're going to cut spending by spending lots of money. Fucking ridiculous. Also, no politician will ever have the balls to make the cuts needed. Dont' dare piss off anyone and their precious little programs. here's an idea. Everyone takes a 30% cut across the board. Period. And the bullshit programs get a 100% cut.