Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "How To AVOID Flying Un-Safe Airplanes!" video.
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@Kiyoone We used to have trains and local rails in all the cities. Then Goodrich (or was it Goodyear) wanted to sell tires, so they greased palms and regulations pushed the local transit rails/trolleys out and brought us buses, which are far less efficient and pollute a lot more.
This is your government at work. It will make whatever it wants sound like the morally superior path, but really they're only helping their buddies, who in turn, donate large sums to their campaigns or give high-paying nothing jobs to their family members, etc.
If we got the government out of everything, there would be for-profit rails flourishing almost everywhere. But, like Nazi Germany, as soon as the government decides it's going to take over an industry "for our good," things go to shit, eventually, and everyone points fingers, but it's all the same. Whoever gets scapegoated for the history books, it was the government intervention and use of government force that threw everything out of whack and changed our decision making from "What makes sense and will make a sustainable profit" to "What does the government want, so I can be sure to cash in on that tax rebate or subsidy?"
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