Jolly good show Eyecu2. Time to hold the line.

+1 👍🏻 UAN is the fertilizer in Question. It is urea ammonia nitrate.
This corrosive liquid requires specialized trucks.

While I agree with your position, I would also argue that we must educate young, private schools should be readily available. As they currently are not wide spread enough to handle the load a Government funded educational system I find to be a necessary evil.

Honestly I became a teacher as my way of going Galt and working within the monster I hate.

Money buys land and homes and buildings here and China has plenty of that they got from us by buying all the crap they make and send to us. China owns a good majority of the gambling casinos here and around the world not to mention many of the largest buildings in major metro cities.

GaryL: Do you mean that China is actually allowed to buy land here?!

I don't know what effect government has on transport via rail.
I think the cost to transport fertilizer is lower via rail than via truck.
Possibly pertinent info on UP.

Who has the largest ownership of Union Pacific?
Wellington Management Company 15M
Bank of America Corporation 12M
Massachusetts Financial Services 11M Geode Capital Management 10M
Northern Trust 7.4M
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 7.0M Bank of New York Mellon 5.8M
Norges Bank Investment Management 5.8M Goldman Sachs Group 5.6M
Franklin Resources 5.0M
Fisher Investments 4.9M
Jpmorgan Chase & Co 4.6M
Wells Fargo & Company 4.5M

Board of Directors
Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Former Chief of Staff to President G.W. Bush
Government

William J. DeLaney
Former Chief Executive Officer
Sysco Corporation
Business

David B. Dillon
Former Chairman
The Kroger Company
Business

Sheri H. Edison
Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Amcor plc
Business

Teresa Finley
Former Chief Marketing & Business Services Officer
United Parcel Service, Inc.
Business

Lance M. Fritz
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Union Pacific Corporation and
Union Pacific Railroad Company

Deborah C. Hopkins
Former Chief Executive Officer
Citi Ventures
Venture Capital Investing

Jane H. Lute
President and CEO
SICPA, North America
Business

Michael R. McCarthy
Chairman
McCarthy Group, LLC
Investment Management

Thomas F. McLarty III
President
McLarty Associates
Strategic Advisory and Advocacy Services

Jose H. Villarreal
Advisor
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
Law Firm

Christopher J. Williams
Chairman
Siebert Williams Shank & Co.
Investment Management

To allosaur:
People like those on the Squad who apparently regard humans, as such, as "parasites", and therefore want such "parasites" destroyed, should begin with themselves.

I To citizen 1:
It seems necessary to name the person to whose letter I am replying, as it seems the machine just never prints the "reply" where it is typed.
I am 70. I still care. But I think we may have a good chance to turn things around in November of this year. I don't like the overconfidence that some on the Republican side have been displaying, because it's not smart. But I think that there is still a good chance.

I am glad you realize the educational system is being "dumbed down",Eyecu2, but I don't think we should have a government-financed, government-run educational system in the first place. Public education should be abolished, except for technical training in the military, and police academies.
Besides that the only proper functions of government are (1) to protect people from force, including violence and fraud; and (2) to punish same; education teaches thought processes, and the government should definitely not be in charge of that--it necessarily leads to government thought control. We should have a separation of education and state, the same as separation of church and state.

I would like to know: Is this a decision freely made by Union Pacific, or did the government somehow force them into it?
Does Union Pacific have a coercive (government-enforced) monopoly on doing that business?
And what about transporting fertilizer by truck? Isn't that business somehow open to the trucking companies?

That seems fitting

Or a small 1200fps gift from a Colt King Cobra.

I walk 47 miles of barbed wire
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide

The first verse of one of my all-time favorite Bo Diddley songs…thanking you for the reference to it and making me recall the lyrics..interesting that he references a house in it, as well

"... just in a sneakier way than was done in the USSR." Agreed, but right now it's a mix of fascism and communism with a smattering of free market capitalism still managing to survive. The way I see it, socialist/fascist is a controlling government allowing people (individuals, shareholders, etc.) to pretend they own something and socialist/communist makes no such pretense. Property tax is fascist, income tax is communist.

Your examples of collectivization through regulation are very good. I assume the regulation also includes manipulation of tax codes to favor one entity over another.

You hit on an important point, the nationalization of nearly every form of production by regulation. That's been taking place ever since the beginning of the Great New Deal, under FDR. The aviation industry was effectively nationalized during WW II, and has pretty much stayed in the government pocket.

Competition in the aerospace industry has been essentially dead for a long time. SpaceX had to fight an uphill battle to get into the government launch game, even when they had an operational launch vehicle competing against the yet to be produced ULA Vulcan. Boeing is the only producer of large commercial aircraft; Northrop had no competition for the new B-21 Raider; Lockheed is slowly becoming the sole producer of fighter aircraft (while Boeing is still producing upgrades to the F-18 and F-15, but that may be the last for them).

We've seen how the government pretty much owns the US auto industry, continually bailing the "big three" out. Remember the financial giants "too big to fail?"

Thanks for reminding us that we're headed toward the Communization of our nation, just in a sneakier way than was done in the USSR.

The inventor of the plasma arc reactor was Albin Czernichowski, but because he did not want to give it to the Communist Party, he never got the credit he deserved.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!

At its root, they hate humans and civilization. We are all supposed to be made to live without modern transport, without eating meat, and without owning anything we don't carry around on our bodies. Oh, and we'll all be implanted with surveillance chips so a universal Chinese style social credit system can be imposed on us. Forever. Only elites like Obama, Gore, and their friends will be exempt.

This is worth a nuclear war to prevent or undo.

Ahhh. You both met in the past in a discussion about negative feedback mechanisms and
Rudolf Starkermann , if I am not mistaken.

"...the small players have been pushed out of farming and ranching, and we're left with the "too big to fail" crowd. Look for a call for big bailouts of the failing superfarms if things don't go well."

These words made me think of Stalin's collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. Many independent farmers that didn't buy into the plan got one way tickets to the gulags. The whole thing failed then, too.

Don't wait around. My forecast is gross collapse by the end of 2022, Unless ...

Nice to meet you, John. I have met someone quite literally named "John Galt" who is working at a local air conditioning repair company. I have met someone who is a "real John Galt" that invented a technology similar to Mr. Fusion from the Back to the Future movies while he was still in Cold War Poland but didn't make money off of it until 2006-2009. We shrugged together in early 2009 when Obama urged our clients to take freebies with Solyndra. instead of our technology.

I have spent time on the Chessie System Railroads and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. NY MTA, LIRR, and AMTRAK are nibbling around the service market looking for me. If you know, you need not ask. I am John Galt. The Taggart Tunnel is happening every single day.

absolutely, nearly all leftist programs and regulations are really designed to bring down our economy

very difficult business, and is made even more difficult when animals are raised as part of it.