While Brat bleats - and actually (and incredibly) thinks it's a
positive - that the "Transcontinental RR Was Many Times Entire Federal
Budget", J.J. Hill's Great Northern was built without a penny of
federal money.

Just by way of a little more background of the comparison between the
two:

"The story of the Great Northern Railway is the story of James Jerome
Hill, a young man from Canada who settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, in
1856 and bought a delinquent land-grant railroad in 1878, the St. Paul
& Pacific Railroad, and turned it into a great transcontinental
railroad, the Great Northern Railway.... His carefully planned but
very long rail extension across North Dakota and Montana, labeled by
an ignorant press as "Hill's Folly," tied the mineral-rich region of
the Montana Rockies with the fertile Red River Valley. There is the
heroic discovery of the Marias Pass by one of Hill's competent
lieutenants, and the final struggle to the Pacific Ocean over the
Cascade Mountains.

Face reality:

No one ever wanted to go there.

Even the Bulgarians who built the RR fled the U. S. as well as the
project.

The gulag was better than Hill's RR.

Bret Cahill

"Bret Cahill" aol.com> wrote in message
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See? I am right about you.

On Jun 21, 11:55 pm, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:

It's obviously you who need to face reality. What Bulgarians? Where
are you getting this crap from?

Fred Weiss

The NSW State Govt [ on behalf of the people of NSW ] organised, built,
managed, and paid for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House.

Should we knock them down, and get private enterprise to do the job
properly?

"Fred Weiss" papertig.com> wrote in message
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On Jun 22, 10:53 pm, "Sean" bro.org> wrote:

Hey Sean;

Sure, if there's money to be made!!! (Just kidding; semi-hijacking to
say "hi"; I know Fred's view; I don't need any more knowledge of that
viewpoint - you can, of course, do as you please)...

btw, there was some touching link my niece in new York sent me, about
a guy who has "bad" cancer". She said there were aspects to his
character that reminded her of me. I watched the 15 minute abridged
version (he has more hair than me) from Oprah; I’ll send the link –
one of those inspirational themes….Anyway, I find out if I have
**any** kind, this week…

K e v

Boilerplate ain't gonna help you here.

Bret Cahill

"kevirwin" comcast.net> wrote in message
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On Jun 22, 10:53 pm, "Sean" bro.org> wrote:

Hey Sean;

Sure, if there's money to be made!!! (Just kidding; semi-hijacking to
say "hi"; I know Fred's view; I don't need any more knowledge of that
viewpoint - you can, of course, do as you please)...

btw, there was some touching link my niece in new York sent me, about
a guy who has "bad" cancer". She said there were aspects to his
character that reminded her of me. I watched the 15 minute abridged
version (he has more hair than me) from Oprah; I

PS .. maybe everyone except Buddhist Monks have more hair than you! hehehe

On Jun 22, 11:25 pm, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:

Whatever that means.

Once again, what Bulgarians? Where are you getting this crap from?

Fred Weiss