fifty six hundred is a number of writers between two or three thousand are existing writers i'm currently sitting in a literally half empty train fifteen years ago i would be standing in the vestibule that is according to one writer that just texted me so i don't this and of course mayor of lake station mr sonner quest who you can be sure has political ambitions far beyond lake station is really selling the story that we need to get on board i'm less station  is much further away from the extension sure extension than griffith and they got the same problems griffith has in terms of small community probably poorer than griffith and they've got road problems i'd drive through there from time to time and i'd say that they would need every dime that they can get to fix up their basic infrastructure think about it if if they do if it can come to that area i mean there is another side to this well what are we talking about i mean the south extension they're talking about the first train to run in two thousand and twenty three and my guess strikes me as the worst kind of exploiting war and working class people to benefit wealthy communities like munster dyer thank john you know i just i just i'm still astounded walt at the voices that came out of griffith this week so much again no no hold on a second let me finish and i'm still astounded i mean obviously here everybody calls in to get to give their own opinion and i'm still astounded that so many people have been calling in with such vehemence against the south shore expansion in it's leveraging two hundred fifty million dollars out of the federal government to bring  duggal you're not paying attention to what i thought about in the past namely when surveys have been done by the time do you want to pay more taxes for more money into the gary airport refuel bus said when you're getting money out of federal government there's only a few ways to get good money out of the federal government infrastructure is one way you are you are you disappointed in some of these all fifty times maybe and i looked at him and i said it on the air was like it was you know i just talked to him i said man you know you look a little weary right now and i get the feeling that if he doesn't get it and desist my feeling i mean he's put in march thirty first deadline and i got to believe he's serious you could see it when a guy is just like hey you know what i'm trying to do the right thing and if the people don't want it they don't want it and you're going to walk away from it and i think that would be a huge loss of a lot of money that could come to our area all right station in a month but anyway it's go ahead everywhere i go in we were in japan last year with our group and for all these communities even smaller communities they all have trains and it's a great way to get around we go from town to town city to city and when you go to europe i mean it's so easy going around from country to country from city to city by the trains everyone's got a train station they're closed there's many of them in for me i think it's an advancement for this area to have a train station in munster and dyer and so forth would be be neficial to me sure i would use it i think could be fun the go up on the weekends and so on the chicago by there's always a cost in people if they want to get the money back coming into the community and making investments and making it a more cosmopolitan area and getting other people to come here like you said before i agree with what you said before with individuals that live in the chicago suburbs they may move to indiana and in real estate in vast and maybe some higher end shopping here that we don't have and also maybe bring some of those corporate jobs here as well if we have that accessibility to chicago for that area the more southern lake county i guess you know nobody wants or pay more taxes i gree with that part of it ok but once in a while you got to step back on the larger picture of what's going on you leveraging a ton of money out of the federal government i mean obviously all the union guys are going to be wait for this and anybody that could personally benefit from this is going to be for building the training and maybe that kind of turn some people off because they see all the bootlickers that want these things done and they don't really know what they're talking about i understand they're part of it but you know once in a while we come to a seminal point in our own history that we all have to make a look at what's going on and sometimes it takes looking at what your kids might do or their kids and the next generation and i worry every time i drive west on eighty and west on ninety and north on the eden's all of those white collar jobs are up there my kids are coming back here my even my daughter said dad it's probably going to be that i work out here more than work anywhere around home right yeah that's what it's going to be you're going to move out of here i'm going to paleness money for you to go get a great education you could come back to northwest indiana but you're probably be out in the western suburbs and that makes me sad and angry when i think we have look long term i think everyone's looking well what's the budget for this year for this community we have potholes right now but they're not looking five to ten to fifteen years out and i think whenever you fail to plan a long term you're failing yourself you've got to look and see what is the dynamics down the road what how can it benefit the community in the long run not in the short run in some people looked at tomorrow instead of next year