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Yeah, but wouldn't you rather have better military stuff? That's what we spend our infrastructure modernization money on. We have great ships and planes.
Yeah, but wouldn't you rather have better military stuff? That's what we spend our infrastructure modernization money on. We have great ships and planes.
Apparently you haven't noticed that China has ramped up their military spending and building for the past decade or so.
Please do not do that. Math and science and engineering and physics and chemistry and biology and ... and... you get the picture. That is what we need to be focusing on. All those maths and sciences, those things solve problems.
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Isn't something like this what the pork for Harry Reid to build the line from LA to Las Vegas? It was lots of money and obviously aimed at helping the gambling businesses in Las Vegas to make more money. It couldn't stop very soon and wasn't supposed to stop very often
My biggest worry is that something going that fast would make a very big mess if terrorists blew up the track just ahead of it. We can't keep them off planes so how do we stop this from happening?
It would also help LA and OC too. Visitors to Las Vegas- and there are millions- might decide to opt for an afternoon at the beach or at Disney if they are a few hours away on a train.
Apparently you haven't noticed that China has ramped up their military spending and building for the past decade or so.
But folks keep buying everything made in China.
I've noticed but it's still is crumbs compared to us. I think if you add up the defense spending for all the other countries on the planet it's only a small percentage what we spend.
Then there is something definitely wrong with America that costs are that high for such a small length of track.
Everything costs an arm and leg nowadays here. Just look at the Big Dig. It cost Boston $15 billion and 20 years for 3 miles of highway tunnel! The Chinese city of Shanghai built 30 miles of highway tunnels for less than a third of that and within 5 years. There are now 20 underground highway tunnels connecting the two sides of Shanghai.
Our high GDP is just an illusion, pumped up by high asset prices. The main reason we aren't seeing runaway inflation is because of cheap Chinese goods allowing the average middle class American to still have a fairly decent buying power. Take that away and our existence won't be so different from the French, or even the developing Chinese themselves.
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