Everyone Else Has Bullet Trains - USA Can't Even Have A Regular Train Not Crash With 1920's Tech

[SeaDoo77]

We're so screwed infrastructure wise.

Maybe we could get some of the 50 trillion from the tax havens and make a train that can make it to Portland without crashing.

[SeaDoo77]

1. My Wife Said We Are Going Backwards

She spends a lot of time in Europe taking real trains.

[Cicada]

2. We have low population density, so our trains suck

In Japan they have about fifty zillion people living along a 100 mile corridor. So they can spend huge amounts per mile for trains and make it cost effective. DuPont Washington has about nine people and a few dogs. Roughly. We don’t have sufficient population density to have great trains except in the Northeast.

[angrychair]

3. A fire knocked out an entire airport in Atlanta

Everything from our bridges to our drinking water are mediocre at best

2017 infrastructure report card:

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org

[SeaDoo77]

4. 3,000 Towns With Lead Water Worse Than Flint

We are sinking fast.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/

The good news is the 50 trillion in the tax havens is safe!

[Irish_Dem]

5. Face it, we are a backward country. Violent, racist, crumbling infrastructure.

Elect crooks on a regular basis who start illegal wars, crash the economy,
rob Americans blind, and damage our standing in the world.