It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't paying the goddam road taxes to pay for these goddam commuter lanes. Or maybe we have forgotten yet again where the money is coming from? Incidentally, I don't have a free choice in paying these taxes.

We passed a proposition in this area a number of years to increase gas taxes to improve a number of clogged roads in this area. Lo and behold, they added new lanes, and then painted goddam diamonds on them.

Did I get any tax money back because I didn't use the diamond lanes? Not hardly.

Now they're trying to suck our gasoline taxes away from highways into mass transit systems. The roads still have holes. The social engineers here hate cars, and most of us have to suffer for it.

...I know from experience there are any number of absolutely superb mass transit systems around the world. What they take is some thought and planning. It helps if you have something productive to do, because it can take time. And they work very well. Takes thought. Takes a bit of work, and some people are way too important to ride with the common folk. (Actually buses are absolutely fascinating. No road rage, and they have all kinds of people to watch.)

I didn't ask you if there were "superb" mass transit systems. The Space Shuttle is an amazing launch system, but it sure as hell doesn't make any money.

I asked someone to show me a mass transit system that doesn't eat more money than it makes. Just one. Just one system where the people riding it aren't being subsidized to the tune of millions of dollars a year by all the rest of us.