It is simple these elitist rich are trying to buy political influence and an exemption to the taxes and regulations that their competitors will face. In the case of Gates look to recent history. He was pretty much non political until Microsoft came to the attention of the Dept of Justice for monopolistic business practices he learned very quickly to buy influence. Buffet owns a rail road that hauls oil that othewrwise would be moved by the KL-pipline also ows about 100m in taxes.

If you had to pay the true cost to ride I doubt you would be a rider.

When high speed passenger rail was proposed some 10 years or so ago the Europeans thought we were crazy to even consider it given our geography and demographics.There comments are or were on record.

Senator Schumer is part of the reason $250,000 does not make one rich in NY.

The endangered species act has been used as a blunt weapon against the private sector and property rights many times. In many cases the science behind the listing has been questionable at best and is often out right fraudulent. The act has been used to deny owners the use of their property. It has held up governmental projects with the only beneficiary the attorneys. It has cost property owners untold amounts of money to protect species that are not endanger of extinction. And to top it off the law has not proven effective in preventing the extinction of animals that are actually in danger of extinction/

It has been my observation both as a student and the husband of a teacher that the person most responsible for the performance of a school is the principal. He or she is the CEO of that school the person who has or should have the most influence on the school. This is the person who sets or doesn't set the standard of performance. A good principal can make a school excellent. A poor principal lets a school drift or even worse is a negative influence by pursuing policy that gets in the way of effective teaching/training.

Enroll your children in a martial arts self defence class join the wrestling team etc. Have them learn to protect and stand up for themselves. On their own these kids will start to form their own gangs for protection a necessary but not a good thing. Your children are learning racial hate this will be a learned preference not a prejudice this is a sad thing. I am sorry for your predicament the country and the black community should have moved on, but too many people have a stake in race baiting Jessy Jackson, All Sharpton etc and the media who make celebrities of them. I know many good people of collor and that this situation happens distresses them.

Two comments 1. The Christian religion commands a person to give out of his/her own money/wealth or time to support the poor not to use the government for the use of other peoples money for charity. 2. Rome was the most benevolent of governments at the time. Given a choice with the exception of the Jews most people would opt to be a Roman citizen as opposed to a subject of their local king or ruler. While punishment was harsh Rome was a nation of law. Other Kingdoms were ruled by royal decree and punishment was no less harsh.

It has often been said that the US can not be the worlds policeman. To those who have this sentiment I say some country or group of countries will fill that role or there will be anarchy and chaos with criminal gangs or rogue nations ruling parts of the world. Think about the consequences of that. It will directly affect everyone in this country. One possible out come will be a world wide armed conflict (War). What will the cost of that be? The US represents 25% of of the worlds GDP, we are the 3rd largest country in land mass when combined with Canada No 1. Grow up folks! We will either dominate or be dominated.

you appearelenty have not checked out vere many federaly managed projects. The norm is sloopy management, corruption, or out right negelect. Also it takes the land off the tax roll and puts it in the expense collum unless it is leased back for sume private sector use. This creates it's ouw problem in that renters almost never take as good care of property as owners. When the Federal government owns one third of the land area enough already. Take care of that.