"Steve........................................ ..." wrote in message news:D97Xb.171110$U%5.801034@attbi_s03...
Here in the Seattle area, we are getting mass transit
at $100,000,000 per mile.
It will carry 1/2 of one percent of the traffic.
It has been calculated that if it is always full of people going to
work, it would still be cheaper to send them pay checks, forever, than
to build the mass transit.

It took but seconds of research to discover gasp that
"conservatives" and Sunday Fundies have huge problems with
actual numbers. Is this a learned trait or one that just evolved?
The result of generations of "home schooling" and genetic
effects?

Cliff, you are a moron. Clark's statement was an accurate reflection of the
truth regarding the proposed light rail project in Seattle. Your "answer"
could have just as well have come out your ass.

Which answer? I'm guessing Clark's claim came out of his.
Did YOU do a quick search on the numbers cited by various folks
with agendas & axes to grind?
They varied all over the place.

"Reflection" of the truth? As in distorted as in rippled & jumbled?

Have any actual hard numbers and *exactly* what for?

The problem with the project referenced is not that it's publicly funded,
but rather that it's a colossal waste of money, does not solve the problem
addressed, does not go where people want to go, and instead is designed to
line the pockets of rich construction interests, big labor interests, big
finance interests, and their purchased politicos. It's billions of dollars
wasted that could have paid for, say, treatment for you to overcome your
profound mental debility.

Sounds very much like you should consider Lithium.

As for the swipe at home-schoolers, the dark truth that the government
education bureaucracy wants to bury is that home-school kids as a group
accomplish better measurable educational results in an average three hours
per day than government schools accomplish in seven.

Once you do several hours of bible study and remove the sciences
and most academics?

Face the facts: most parents would flunk themselves. And you expect
THEM to do the teaching of subjects most of them have but a vague
grasp of?

Not that that was the subject of my post .... I guess you missed
the rest of the thread(s) before jumping to conclusions. "Home schooled"
were you? Due to continued ejection from the Catholic schools?

Of course this is to be
expected, given the demonstrated greater personal commitment to the child's
education and the lack of wasteful distractions such as simply trying to
keep order.

And I expect you have guns too. That's bound to help keep order, right?

But of course you can't grasp any of this. Is this a learned trait or just
congenital results of being born with your head in your anus?

End effect of listening to thumpers? You get a lot of them over there?
And the general run-of-the-mill conservative anti-science, anti-education
(education is a liberal concept, after all ... some places even let
girls & minorities have a little) folks?
--
Cliff