Maglev train idea for Northeast resurfaces

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25. I was in 5th grade when I came up with the concept of mag-lev trains.

After playing with magnets, I determined that a rail of an opposite polarity could allow a train with the other polarity to simply rotate magnets to accellerate or decellerate with no energy being used other than that necessary to controll the magnets. Everyone thought I was crazy. That was in 1975, and before I discovered pot.

To be fair, I also designed an internal combustion engine four years earliar. My father asked me what I would construct it out of and I said, "wood". I had the physical mechanics correct, but all of my ideas were great. I also thought it was a good idea to put speakers in the back of the car and use a R2D2 sound generator (of my own design) to impress my first date. Lets just say that didn't turn out so well.

The US is so far behind in infrastructure that I'm almost ashamed to be a citizen. Our recycling percentage is pathetic. Our roads and bridges are crumbling. We can't educate or feed our most needy children, and all the while the 1% continue to get richer while the middle class slides into poverty.

There is no excuse for the richest country in the world to allow anyone to go hungry, go without heat, go without running water, electricity, and health care. Education is essential and yet the GOP fights tooth and nail to destroy it because they need a "base" that's poor, dumb, and ignorant.

I think I went off on a few tangents there, but my statements are still valid.