Re: Why is a North-south railway not being built now?

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:24:34 UTC, nick150971@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

: Which political persuasion is against spending money on something of
: long term benefit?
:
: Not Left, new or otherwise, that's for sure....

The old left is all in favour of spending unlimited amounts of money
to keep old things going, but has never been particularly keen on
spending money on new things. Bloody turnpikes, they'll destroy
close-kint pack mule breeding communities.

Ian

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