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				<title>Randal O'Toole (Cato Institute)</title>
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			<title>Billions for Moderate-Speed Rail (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=925</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>High Speed Spending (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10301</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Would you pay $1,000 so that someone &#8211; probably not you &#8211; can ride high-speed trains 58 miles a year? That's what the Obama Administration's high-speed rail plan is going to cost every federal income taxpayer in the country.

One thousand dollars per taxpayer is only the beginning. Cou...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>A High-Speed Rail Mirage (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10233</link>
				<description><![CDATA[At first glance, President Obama's enthusiasm for building a high-speed rail network linking major cities seems like a wise move. On closer inspection, however, it is clear that the plan would cost taxpayers billions of dollars and do little to reduce traffic congestion or improve the environment.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>High-Speed Rail Is No Solution (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10170</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The facts do not bear out several aspects of President Barack Obama's desire to push high-speed rail projects with federal resources ($8 billion in the economic stimulus package, another $5 billion in his 2010 budget) &#8212; chiefly, that the rail projects are more efficient and more environmentall...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Trains Are for Tourists (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10057</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When I went to Europe, I loved to ride the trains, especially the French TGV and other high-speed trains. So President Obama's goal of building high-speed rail in the United States sounded good at first.

But when I looked at the details, I discovered that &#8212; while high-speed rail may be good...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>It's Not High Speed Rail (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=852</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Save Washington's Metro by Privatizing the System (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10012</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As Washington’s Metro lurches from crisis to crisis, including derailed trains and a $154 million deficit in next year’s budget, many see its troubles as a prime example of why transit systems across the nation need even more tax subsidies.

In fact, the Washington Metro is a prime example of the ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>How Not to Waste Infrastructure Bucks (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=840</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Rules for Infrastructure Stimulus (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9980</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Some $50 billion of the $789 billion stimulus is supposed to be for infrastructure. Throughout the nation, government officials and special interest groups worth their vigorish are circulating wish lists of supposedly shovel-ready projects they claim will stimulate the economy.

The Park Service w...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9980</guid>
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				<title>Light Rail Isn't the Track to the Future (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9958</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As America's largest city without rail transit, some people want San Antonio to "keep up" by building light rail. You need to know only one thing: Light rail is really expensive.

I mean, really, really expensive. The average mile of light-rail line costs two to five times as much as an urban free...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9958</guid>
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				<title>NY Waterway: A Private Transit Success Story (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9898</link>
				<description><![CDATA[All eyes are on Washington today, but many will remember the crash landing of US Airways 1549 in the Hudson River last week. The number one hero of that flight, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, has been invited to attend today's inauguration.

But there were many other heroes that day, most notably t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>A Matter of Trust: Why Congress Should Turn Federal Lands into Fiduciary Trusts (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9883</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service collectively manage well over a quarter of the land in the United States. Although everyone agrees that the lands and resources managed by these agencies are exceedingly valuable, the lands collective...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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