Letters to the Editor: Feb. 15, 2011

Driving is a public/private joint venture Re: “High-speed rail: Obama’s gift that nobody wants,” Editorial, Feb. 11

I agree with this editorial’s ultimate conclusion that taxpayers should pass on Obama’s multibillion-dollar high-speed-rail scheme. In a time of massive national debt, painful cuts are required, but they won’t come until the low-hanging fruit — such as Vice President Joe Biden’s new bullet train and former President George Bush’s mission to Mars — are first plucked off the budget tree.