America can.
California can.
California can have them without any assistance from the taxpayers outside California.
California just cannot have BOTH High-Speed Bullet Trains AND provide social services for millions of illegal immigrants AT THE SAME TIME.
California people have to decide which they want. This is reality. This is TRUTH.
And reality--or TRUTH--is anathema to the Leftists who have California in a death-grip.
Contempt for TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake--is fundamental dogma to the Left.
(Californians obviously have also decided that they'd rather not fix the potholes in their roads. Or clean the excrement, needles, and syringes from their cities' streets and parks. Or halt the import of illegal drugs from foreign nations. They clearly prefer to import millions of illegal immigrants and give them "sanctuary" and social services. That's their choice. It's theirs to make. They should be satisfied having made that choice.)
If there really was a market for HSR, and environmentalists would get out of the way, it would happen without the federal feed bag as well.
But HSR is like a mantra for some folks.