I took the train home from LAX on Saturday. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than taking the Super Shuttle which is what I did at four in the morning on my way out of town. I didn't feel like taking public transportation through Compton at 4 AM, if it's even running at 4 AM. So I springed for the 31 bucks as, sort of, life insurance.
Taking the train back during daylight hours is fun, to me, and a mini adventure as well. I was sitting in the front of the train and being the nosy bastard that I am, I was reading the nameplate riveted to the operator's door. The train was made in Japan in 1989 by Nippon Sharyo. I remember what a fuss there was when the public realized that these trains would be made in Osaka and not Oakland. Yes, they should have not only been made in the USA, but in California.
Now if my calculator is working, 1989 would have been 22 years ago and I'm guessing that these trains have a service life of about 25 years. This means that there should be a replacement order surging down the pipeline. I hope like hell that the new trains are made in Silmar and not Shanghai.
Taking the train back during daylight hours is fun, to me, and a mini adventure as well. I was sitting in the front of the train and being the nosy bastard that I am, I was reading the nameplate riveted to the operator's door. The train was made in Japan in 1989 by Nippon Sharyo. I remember what a fuss there was when the public realized that these trains would be made in Osaka and not Oakland. Yes, they should have not only been made in the USA, but in California.
Now if my calculator is working, 1989 would have been 22 years ago and I'm guessing that these trains have a service life of about 25 years. This means that there should be a replacement order surging down the pipeline. I hope like hell that the new trains are made in Silmar and not Shanghai.
We are supposedly trying as a nation to get our economy moving again so we had a Cash For Clunkers program. Well guess what. Shouldn't that program have been structured for American built cars? Not for cars built in Japan or Korea or even Germany? I know that a lot of so called, foreign cars are assembled here in the US and that would have been OK, if not great. But no, we couldn't even implement that little detail. Nice going you moron bureaucrats. That was a real shot in the arm for the US economy.
Lastly, there is probably much that we can do about the flood of Illegal Immigrants. We can't send them all back. It's impractical, there's just too damn many of them. But we can do a few things, and one of them is if an Illegal is stopped by the police and in fact, is truly is here illegally and is driving a foreign car. The car should be impounded and crushed. Sound a bit draconian? Not really. The least an Illegal Alien, not Undocumented worker, can do after entering our country is buy American and help keep some money, and jobs, here and not in Tokyo, Soul or Stuttgart.
I'm sorry if you don't agree with me. I hope that you do, and if you do, please pass thiss on to others either by cutting and pasting this message or the above web address.
Thanks.
Lastly, there is probably much that we can do about the flood of Illegal Immigrants. We can't send them all back. It's impractical, there's just too damn many of them. But we can do a few things, and one of them is if an Illegal is stopped by the police and in fact, is truly is here illegally and is driving a foreign car. The car should be impounded and crushed. Sound a bit draconian? Not really. The least an Illegal Alien, not Undocumented worker, can do after entering our country is buy American and help keep some money, and jobs, here and not in Tokyo, Soul or Stuttgart.
I'm sorry if you don't agree with me. I hope that you do, and if you do, please pass thiss on to others either by cutting and pasting this message or the above web address.
Thanks.
