We almost had a high speed rail network in 2010
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 1:39 pm
WI Gov Scott Walker decided to be a little bitch and reject it. It wouldn't have even come from WI Taxpayers, it was hundreds of millions in Federal money ffs. Ohio also rejected their part, and then the money was going to go to Florida after those two fuckwads decided we didn't need to invest in our god damn infrastructure and make (albeit, temporary) jobs, and Florida started spending their award money ahead of time and then ALSO fucking rejected it.
So it instead got repurposed to construction in California. No highspeed rails, which would help travel in this giant ass country immensely, and which most other major nations have already constructed.
Get with the times, America. Holy shit.
And with how the economy has been the last 15, 20 years? I grew up being told by everyone that WW2 helped get us out of the Great Depression by all the factory jobs. Maybe it's time we update our laughably ancient infrastructure and help put money back into the economy with all that work? Hmm? No? Better to just let the working class suffer and to let the rest of the world advance and leave us in the dust? Okay.
Okay. Fuck you.
/rant
So it instead got repurposed to construction in California. No highspeed rails, which would help travel in this giant ass country immensely, and which most other major nations have already constructed.
Get with the times, America. Holy shit.
And with how the economy has been the last 15, 20 years? I grew up being told by everyone that WW2 helped get us out of the Great Depression by all the factory jobs. Maybe it's time we update our laughably ancient infrastructure and help put money back into the economy with all that work? Hmm? No? Better to just let the working class suffer and to let the rest of the world advance and leave us in the dust? Okay.
Okay. Fuck you.
/rant