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Posted on 06/07/2010 7:45:38 AM PDT by Willie Green
The USA is not China.
We are individualists rather than collectivists and this especially applies to personal transportation.
Pretty nifty for a country that still murders hundreds of thousands of its own people a year and has the poverty numbers it does.....the US left will and does worship the government style of China, despite every once in awhile throwing out the human rights violations card....Anita Dunn and other Moaist are tickled to death....
I wouldn’t want to travel 200+ mph in anything made in China.
I would prefer a train system that actually takes me to where *I* want to go, in modest comfort, at a fair price, and doesn’t permit thuggish patrons and/or public urination/defecation on the facilities.
I don’t care if it’s the world’s fastest.
translation: I want the UK trains.
good let the chicoms ride in cattle cars...
....I will fly or drive thank you very much.
Great, back to Coal Powered Trains.
Over 80% of China’s electrical power comes from coal.
http://iea.org/stats/electricitydata.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=CN
Yes, that's why we drive on government owned roads, pay taxes to the government to pay for said roads, and beg every 1 to 4 years the precious privilege of a license to drive on said roads from said government and a registration to permit use by said government of our personally owned vehicle. Then we submit meekly to the directions of the officers of said government about how we may use these roads and suffer financial penalities when we get to indidivualistic about our own opinion of safe condut on the roads concerning speed, passing, and other driving manuevers.
That sounds very non-collectivist to me. (/sarcasm)
Good thing we don't use those evil collectivist trains that permit free passage without distraint by anyone with no conditions other than payment of the fare.
China Unveils World's Fastest High Speed Train WRECK!
In Texas we’ve sold some of the major roads to private companies to operate as toll roads...so you were saying?
“Good thing we don’t use those evil collectivist trains that permit free passage without distraint by anyone with no conditions other than payment of the fare.”
I think so, you are free to ride all the Amtrac you want to.
Yeah. Just wait until they have a high-speed trainwreck. It should all fit on one good sized lowboy once the juices quit oozing out.
Since Green energy is a fraud, so is this boondoggle. Nobody wants this antiquated method of transportation other than environazis and corrupt pols.
Pray for America
In Texas we’ve sold some of the major roads to private companies to operate as toll roads...so you were saying?That's pretty stupid, especially since we could've collected the tolls ourselves instead of letting Perry's cronies stuff the tolls into their own pockets.
Hey, America will get a high speed train. Unfortunately, it will only be allowed to go 45 miles per hour so as not to hurt any endangered snails that may attempt to cross the tracks. (Gotta give the conductor time to stop!)
“China’s $1T USD high speed rail gambit leaps ahead”
Great. Let’s give Obama yet another idea for how to waste more trillions. If high-speed trains were economically viable, the private sector would offer them up. Do the Europeans, Japanese, Chinese or anyone else have trains that are self-supporting?
Amtrak subsidies cost $32 per passenger.
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2010/05/of-cows-subsidies-and-amtrak.html Why do we think high-speed Amtrak would be any different?
Pixie dust?
Obama and China and the MSM like trains because they are easy to unionize and easy to use to control personal transportation.
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