Two Trains One Track? You Must Be Kidding!

The explosion of the Union Pacific freight train as it hit the Metrolink Passenger line last week in Chatsworth is a horrible reminder of the fact that our nation's rail system is operating on 19th century tracks and technology.

With all the billions of dollars that we are spending to bail out Wall Street, with $100 million we could have developed and optimized a transportation system that would eliminate on the ground crashes and accidents.

This shows that our officials have no vision for the future! Common sense is genious and today's leaders have no common sense.

The Magnetrain Worldwide Group has been developing the Vinson Magnetrain since 1984.
This system has been shown in San Francisco and to several major engineering firms. The government has seen this system as well, but yet, they elect to continue to pour research dollars and grants into projects that do not work or are not commercially feasible. They give millions of dollars to established engineering groups so that they can continue to pay their engineers and scientists while their innovations and their new technologies continue to prove unworkable for commercial use.

When will we in America get the picture right! The inventors are alive and well in their garages, in their back yards and in their home grown labs. They are making breakthroughs that will astound the most experienced scientists, but they get not funding and no attention at all.

Unless they are affiliated with a corporate entity they can expect zero funding for research and development.

A new office should be established in Washington called "Innovation." And rather than the government breathing down the backs of these inventors and stealing their inventions if it suits their purposes, we need to give them the credit, give them the ability to participate in the optimization of their technology and fund them 100%.

Most great inventions that the American inventor developed were finally produced overseas because no one in America would fund them.

It is really sad, when people like Warren Buffet who has the money to make a big difference in the lives of the American people would give the Gates Foundation, who has billions already, a huge grant, rather than establish a true entrepreneurship foundation for the inventors and small business men who have a dream that need only $50K or $100K to fulfill it.

I believe if we established a foundation like they did in Bangledesh, giving grants to people to go out and establish their business, when they are successful, they would repay the grant and continue to fund the foundation so others could do the same! We could make the ingenuity and innovation of America great once again!

The people who control the money have no vision. Their vision is only to make more money and destroy their competition.

Well, the competion is destroying themselves. And now the government is bailing them out.
If our government doesn't get a vision for the future, it is only a matter of time, when they become the drowned helping the drowning.