[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Good morning,


I have just read through all the responses here.


It looks to me like tvbound obviously has an inside track (chuckle) to the railroad industry. Thank you, tvbound, for sharing with us the details from your close friend who has had 50 years in the biz. (Mr. Boomer has been reading your detailed posts, too. He is always interested in the workings of the NTSB. He is a pilot so he reads about the NTSB. His license is private pilot, and it includes IFR and Seaplane and sign-offs in complex and high performance. . .I think I got that right. I just sit in the right seat. . .but, I digress.)

Anyway, I want to get back to connecting the dots......

Please take a look at the definition of connect-the-dots:

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Definitions from Oxford Languages ·

connect-the-dots:

relating to or denoting a child's puzzle consisting of sequentially numbered dots which form a picture when connected with straight lines in the designated order.
"a connect-the-dots picture"

The picture I get when I connect the dots is a simple one......If Norfolk Southern can buy back 10 Billion Dollars worth of their own stock, they can darned well afford to take care of the people of East Palestine and make them whole again. That needs to happen and it should not be on the taxpayers' dime.

Whoops, the clock is telling me that I don't have time to finish this post now. I will be back later to have a conversation about buybacks, Buffett, and perhaps a certain post here that definitely jumped the track.

Bye for now.

Boomer

I certainly agree that Norfolk Southern owes the people of E Palestine enough to make them whole again. You do realize that whatever that amount is it will be a writeoff from their taxes so we will all share in that cost.