<OT> oh, my

[Alma J Wetzker]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> David A. Bandel wrote:
>  > Chicken and egg problem.  Study transportation.
> 
>>
>> Until you get roads in, you can't get industry in, and industry won't
>> build the roads, government must.  The government must provide the first
>> chicken (road), then once it produces an egg (industry builds down that
>> road), all else will follow.  (Transportation 101 - a topic I used to
>> teach.)
> 
> 
> Yes. A good analogy and a good point. But arguably government has 
> already done that and now it is time for the Rush of '49 to begin.
> 

There is still a big difference between blazing a trail and building a road. 
The only vehicles that got us to the moon were all custom build jobs, the 
shuttles are not much better.  The analogy fails only in that the trail we 
have needs a vehicle that will travel it reliably and (hopefully) safely.

     -- Alma