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[dylan]

are you implying that the US's transportation system was and is the most
efficient? surely you must be joking.

couldn't resist.



> To understand America's hegemony, you have to go back to the 1840's and see
> the concious effort that was made to make this country the world's formost
> manufacturing and transportation giant - to this day no other transportation
> system in the world is as efficient then ours, it was deemed then, as now, as
> key componant of trade and general welfare. America changed the world's
> comerce when it completed it's trans-continental rail roads and shortened the
> distance from Asia to the US by nearly a year and to europe via America by
> nearly 6 months. They made a America the world's hub.