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Spoken like a true communist

Larrry

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“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,”

(NYDN)- Biden spoke Tuesday in a wood-paneled second-floor bar at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South at a fundraiser for incumbent Democratic NY-1 Rep. Tim Bishop.

…VPOTUS, who stood next to Bishop and grasped the four-term Democrat’s shoulder at several points during his remarks, waded into the audience as he discussed the nation’s need to compete with education and infrastructure investments made by nations like China and India, and Republican opposition to such spending.

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”
 

Steve

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The Central Pacific started work in 1863. Due to competition with the War for workers, rails, ties, railroad engines and supplies, the Union Pacific RR did not start construction until July 1865.

Each was required to build only 50 miles (80 km) in the first year; after that, only 50 miles (80 km) more were required each year. Each railroad received $16,000 per mile ($9,940/km) built over an easy grade, $32,000 per mile ($19,880/km) in the high plains, and $48,000 per mile ($29,830/km) in the mountains.

Thomas C. Durant got rich as he took advantage of lax or non-existent government oversight during the Civil War. On July 4, 1865, the Union Pacific had not gone further than 40 miles (64 km) from Omaha With the end of the Civil War and increased government supervision in the offing, Durant hired his former M&M engineer Grenville M. Dodge to build the railroad and the Union Pacific began a mad dash.

Biden was only off by a little over $624,000 per 40 mile section... :cry:
 

Lonecowboy

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That's how government math works Steve!

just a "little" off - estimates always a "little" on the low side.

The fed. govt. has a project going on here- building a dam across the yellowstone river, in winter, in Montana, with cement, estimated at 35 million- anyone wanta bet what the total bill will be??

I'll bet it's a "little"over 35M.
 
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