Half a Railroad Line

Let's see if if it is possible to "out-do" the insanity of building an oil pipeline close to the terminus but not anywhere near the supply.  That is exactly the idiotic proposal of the Obama administration, called the southern leg of the Keystone pipe line

Put on your time machine hat and go back a hundred years or so.  Folks in New York City had developed a taste for beef.  A rail line from Kansas City to NYC seemed to be a reasonable ticket to satisfy that desire.

However, some "greenies", likely a much less favorable term would have been used back then, came out of the woodwork and screamed you are proposing raping the land.  I know it is hard to imagine, but try.

Suppose the then sitting president, hoping to satisfy everyone in an election year, came up with a novel proposal that included a compromise based on an approval that had already been granted for a rail line from Buffalo, NY to NYC.  He may have even used a term along the lines of "lets get'er done."

This became known as the eastern leg of the so called beef line, or did it quickly become known as the bull line?.  Now to his way of thinking, misnomer though it be, this would have made all those folks in NYC happy, even though there was no intent to ever have the western leg from Kansas City to Buffalo approved.

I doubt some bloke in the Bowery, Bronx or Queens would have been easily fooled.  Most likely they would have been giving that old Bronx cheer, while yelling, "throw the bum out."

Come to think of it, shouldn't we all be doing the same?