Meglev Train



China�s new magnetic levitation train runs from Shanghai to the International Airport in Pudong. It is fast, silent, zero pollution and expensive. Traditional transportation accounting may fail to take into account the economy of speed, however. Such has long made sense for our busy corridors of over congested commuting.

But, what the heck, we are �number one.�
We are the only super power!
We dazzle the world with shock and awe.
We have the worlds best Health Care System,
the best Communication System,
the best Education System,
the most efficient Transportation System,
Globalization is good for everyone!
Hollywood, the Rolling Stones and religious copyright protection are in our best interest.
And it all runs on oil.

Duh! I don�t think so.

The old bones in our government seem locked in the last gasps of the industrial age, impervious to the disruptive technologies of tomorrow. Neoconservative is atherosclerotic. The FTC, Federal Trade Commission, is criminally negligent in not enforcing the anti trust laws they are responsible for. Conservative is the vigorous promotion of competitive, technologically savvy small business. Conservative is the aggressive restraint to ultra big monopolies, cartels and anti competitive sometimes-multinational companies. The enterprise that supports price by engineered scarcity is in violation as well. The stewardship of our technology, our culture and our economy seems the greater lack.

The obscene cost of military misadventure, the health care system, insurance, energy, communication and education drive the GDP but at what expense? How much nicer would be the double-digit growth of the small competitive information driven enterprise not represented by lobbyists or legislators.