wow i feel like i just got done listening to a couple of children bickering.


I CAN TALK LOUDER THEN YOU!

[edit on 1/31/2010 by Alaskan Man]

Personally I think Fox news is a sham, but I agree with their analysis on this.

Comparing a high speed railway to interstate highway infrastructure, and what it can DO for America is not a good analogy at all. High speed railway would be a complete waste of money in USA.... It might shuttle a few workers.... Big whoop. Not worth billions.

It would not help America "grow". We need JOBS for that to happen....

I'm all for upgrading existing rail lines and turing old ones into bike paths.
This particular high speed rail system may be a farce but I'm not against the idea per se. There may be places in the US that would actually benefit from the creation of high speed rail. Of course, we'd probably be better off maintaining the bridges and roads we already have.

People who get their news from Fox are naive and often ignorant.

Originally posted by seattletruth
Personally I think Fox news is a sham, but I agree with their analysis on this.

Comparing a high speed railway to interstate highway infrastructure, and what it can DO for America is not a good analogy at all. High speed railway would be a complete waste of money in USA.... It might shuttle a few workers.... Big whoop. Not worth billions.

It would not help America "grow". We need JOBS for that to happen....

I'm glad you agree with the Fox News Business analysis.
You will NOT hear this truth on MSNBC because they are on
Team Obama. MSNBC "cherry picks" the news.

So the economy is in the tank and what's Obama plan? Build a fast choo choo train? What's a great idea /end sarcasm.

lol...she asked the British guy if he's traveled around the world. That tickles me.

I guarantee, as someone from Florida, no one is going to use this high-speed rail to go between Tampa and Orlando. It's a two and a half hour drive! Goodness. The high-speed trains here in Europe actually go between places that are quite a ways apart, not two hours!

They wouldn't be able to finish this railway in even the ten years that that woman said. They can't finish anything in Florida! In my hometown, they've been working on widening a road that spans the width of the county for the last eighteen years! It's ridiculous. Expecting Florida to finish something, in which brand new stuff would have to be put down and built (as there are no train tracks that go between the lanes of I-4, which the woman said the train would be built) is idiocy.

The host had it right, Eisenhower had an advantage when he built the Interstate system. The biggest being that States weren't going bankrupt and running out of cash. I'm not opposed to the idea of a high-speed rail system in the United States. It could actually be a really good thing for some of those states in fly-over country, as visiting them may be feasible then, I believe. But this is a project that should be pursued when other parts of the economy are straightened out and the highway system is all finished being fixed, widened, and all that. And if they absolutely want to start the system now, please, choose a better route than Tampa→Orlando, It really isn't worth it.