[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Stafford Winters]

On 12/8/2011 6:26 PM, AEF wrote:
> <snip>
> ads" *are* within the purview. Public
> transit is not. When the federal government regulates (our definition, not
> the Constitution's) anything they weren't chartered to regulate, they start
> down the slippery slope of socialism. Welcome to today.
> Must be a pretty shallow slope.
>
> Where are all the lawsuits about these "unconstitutional regulations"?
>
> As far as public transit operated by the federal government, I know
> only of Amtrak. And that is hardly a socialist threat. It is, however,
> a cause of delays of NJ Transit trains, as Amtrak owns some of the
> tracks NJ Transit runs on.

The federal government funds all kinds of public transit systems.  
Voters in my state have repeatedly voted against light rail projects, 
but they keep getting built.  The claim is always that it is federal 
funding.  From where does this federal funding come?  Most people call 
them taxpayers.  The latest project is to build a replacement bridge 
across the Columbia River.  It is estimated to cost $3 billion.  The 
plan calls for 3 traffic lanes each direction.  It will replace a bridge 
that is.....



...3 lanes each direction.  Of course, the new bridge will also support 
light rail, which the taxpayers do _not_ want!