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Spending Priorities: Super Trains vs. Manned Space Program
By Michael Boyajian
With concern growing about our government’s deficit spending many are wondering if we have to chose between government programs. Two programs that may face each other for federal dollars are the super train network and the manned space program.
Super Trains: An Infrastructure Priority
By Michael Boyajian
For years politicians have vowed to revive upstate New York’s beleaguered economy. In reality they did little more than rest their hopes on a few casinos and some business zones. Still, the upstate economy remains in bad shape with jobs and population bleeding out of the state. Why Buffalo alone was once a city of 600,000 people and is now reduced substantially to a mere 200,000.