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>it makes little sense to me why the investment has not been made in the USA The investments were made, and then the fruits of those investments were systemati

>it makes little sense to me why the investment has not been made in the USA The investments were made, and then the fruits of those investments were systematically destroyed over about a decade, sixty years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi... As for why nothing is happening now: the only thing the public can seem to agree on is putting people in prison and defense spending. So that's why.

lukeqsee 12y ago
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi... A friend shared that article with me after seeing my comment—purely capitalistic entities operate both idiotically (in terms of good for the whole) and predictably. "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book III, Chapter IV, p. 448