“With clogged highways and overburdened airports, economic growth was suffering, Mr. Obama said from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, shortly before leaving for a weekend trip to Latin America.”

“‘What we need, then, is a smart transportation system equal to the needs of the 21st century,’ he said, ‘a system that reduces travel times and increases mobility, a system that reduces congestion and boosts productivity, a system that reduces destructive emissions and creates jobs’” (New York Times).

The man has the key. We built the trans-continental railroad with our hands and feet; we built it and then gave it to the octopus!

Since they’re not coming down over the plains yet, I may head down south to be a a conductor on the Texas to Alabama line.