Article Contributed on: 7/24/2008 11:39:56 AM
The looming failure of the FastTrax project is due to rosy estimates of the cost of the project. It's already at 150% ($6B instead of the $4B promised). When FastTrax passed I predicted it would be $8B but I think I was too optimisitic about oil prices.
Are we as a nation capable of self-government anymore? We have an increasingly deteriorating situation abroad; ruin and collapse of the infrastructure at home; the largest prison population in the world, both as a percentage of overall population and as an absolute number of incarcerated; economic collapse ... I could go on but you get the drift.
The answer, I believe, is that we are capable of self-government but that the two-party system has failed. It has degenerated into a trench warfare between two Political Megacorporations (D's Inc. and R's Inc.) neither of whom represent the vast majority of Americans.
We need a third party, a fourth party, a fifth party ... let's have some political choice!
Vote Libertarian this November and broaden the chances that American self-government will be able to meet the challenges of the future.