Pork is good. Pork has effectively been banned and that's why US life expectancy is strictly decreasing.
The 2009 stimulus had $8 billion for high speed rail
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Eurobro here. Even if I'm a fan of our own high-speed trains, I'm a bit skeptical about their introduction in the US. Your cities are much more spread apart and also the important locations in a city would require you to rent a car once you land with the plane. Here in Europe it's different because we have relatively close cities and most things close to the city center and the train station.
True, but how is this ever going to change unless Americans invest in both inner city rail and intra city rail? You have to start at some point. Suburbanization was something Boomers loved most of all. Millennials desire to live in urban centers.
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And yet people want the government to be more involved in healthcare, education, etc.
Everytime the gov spends money, about 80% is spent on pork. Washington is a broken place full of grifters and losers.
public education much better value/cost ratio than private...
same with health care.
It's not like private infrastructure is illegal. Go build your own subway system bro.
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Sure. But French men enjoy performing fellatio on each other. Who wants to be greated at a train station by men with rancid cum-breath?
Eurobro here. Even if I'm a fan of our own high-speed trains, I'm a bit skeptical about their introduction in the US. Your cities are much more spread apart and also the important locations in a city would require you to rent a car once you land with the plane. Here in Europe it's different because we have relatively close cities and most things close to the city center and the train station.
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Eurobro here. Even if I'm a fan of our own high-speed trains, I'm a bit skeptical about their introduction in the US. Your cities are much more spread apart and also the important locations in a city would require you to rent a car once you land with the plane. Here in Europe it's different because we have relatively close cities and most things close to the city center and the train station.
This is true about most of the US, but there are still parts where a Euro-style high-speed train would make a lot of sense. E.g., the lack of such a train in the NE corridor (Boston - NY - Philadelphia - DC) is absurd. Have one stop per state to make it politically viable (e.g., add Hartford and EWR and Baltimore).
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Eurobro here. Even if I'm a fan of our own high-speed trains, I'm a bit skeptical about their introduction in the US. Your cities are much more spread apart and also the important locations in a city would require you to rent a car once you land with the plane. Here in Europe it's different because we have relatively close cities and most things close to the city center and the train station.
True, but how is this ever going to change unless Americans invest in both inner city rail and intra city rail? You have to start at some point. Suburbanization was something Boomers loved most of all. Millennials desire to live in urban centers.
Well, maybe you're right.
Eurobro here. Even if I'm a fan of our own high-speed trains, I'm a bit skeptical about their introduction in the US. Your cities are much more spread apart and also the important locations in a city would require you to rent a car once you land with the plane. Here in Europe it's different because we have relatively close cities and most things close to the city center and the train station.
This is true about most of the US, but there are still parts where a Euro-style high-speed train would make a lot of sense. E.g., the lack of such a train in the NE corridor (Boston - NY - Philadelphia - DC) is absurd. Have one stop per state to make it politically viable (e.g., add Hartford and EWR and Baltimore).
It seems to me that I saw something that explained how in one of the places that makes more sense (yep perhaps NY - Washington) it is so densely built (ironically thanks to the old railway) that it's much harder to build a new one now.
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The only reason emerging markets get infrastructure built faster is they ignore important moral requirements that we hold as paramount in the developed world:
- fair wages
- not bulldozing people's homes without consent
- not leaving people homeless
- not ruining people's neighbourhoods and turning them into noisy settings right next to / underneath train lines -
The only reason emerging markets get infrastructure built faster is they ignore important moral requirements that we hold as paramount in the developed world:
- fair wages
- not bulldozing people's homes without consent
- not leaving people homeless
- not ruining people's neighbourhoods and turning them into noisy settings right next to / underneath train lines"Fair" wage is a ridiculous concept.
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The big problem in US govt is govt employees that don't actually do anything, they just manage money which goes to contractors. Few contractors bid. THe govt doesn't actually use any of its monopsony power.
Therefore we overspend and underbuild.
And this happens again, and again, and again.
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The only reason emerging markets get infrastructure built faster is they ignore important moral requirements that we hold as paramount in the developed world:
- fair wages
- not bulldozing people's homes without consent
- not leaving people homeless
- not ruining people's neighbourhoods and turning them into noisy settings right next to / underneath train linesOK but if I recall correctly someone in an older thread was noticing the price of e.g. building a subway under NY, it's atrocious because every group with some political power wants to get some money out of it....
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Compare 1999 to 1990. Massive revolution in terms of PCs entering middle class homes. All households in Western world get a mobile phone
Compare 2009 to 2000: basic mobile phones get replaced by smartphones with internet access. Almost everyone in the world has a phone with internet access.
Compare 2019 to 2010.... We use instagram instead of fb?
The last decade has been the slowest in modern history. The government failing to invest in research and industry is a big driver of the slowdown.
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Nobody gives a sh1t about HS rail. Just a made-up excuse for Frequent Flier progressives to blame someone else for all the toxic emissions of their jet set lifestyle. Its not their fault they flew to NY to watch Hamilton, if it weren't for Mitch McConnell they coulda took a train.