Respect, but defund

An example of the private sector doing it first and better- perhaps- sufficient to warm the cockles of Mitt Romney's ice-bound heart:

November 18, 1883

 

The General Time Convention, a railroad trade group seeking to simplify train schedules, replaces local time with standard time in the United States and Canada; four standard time zones go into effect. Prior to this, all trains had run on local times, with each community setting its time independently, which made scheduling connections virtually impossible.

In 1918 Congress finally made time zones the law in the United States.

Of course, in modern Romneydoxy, we can love trains at the same time we must acknowledge that what trains actually do is inherently disordered.