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President Obama, China, High-Speed Rail and the Sputnik Moment
Reason Foundation ^
| 1/26/2011
| Samuel Staley
Posted on 01/26/2011 12:51:51 PM PST by wheresmyusa
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To: wheresmyusa
I don’t care to be like China and I don’t like their crappy products.
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posted on
01/26/2011 12:57:28 PM PST
by
linn37
( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: wheresmyusa; All
America is losing its edge to nations like China, Mr. Obama suggested, because we have failed to commit to a long-term vision to be competitive in this digital age. “China is building faster trains and newer airports,” the president said. “Meanwhile, when our own engineers graded our nation’s infrastructure, they gave us a ‘D.’”
Hey Obushma.....if you and your fellow Free Trade Communists were not shipping American wealth and jobs to Communist China....there would not be such a “disadvantage”.
Obushma and Free Trade Communists: Partners in the raping of America
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posted on
01/26/2011 12:58:24 PM PST
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(NAFTA, WTO, UN, IMF, USAID, World Bank, are all Statist organizations)
To: UCFRoadWarrior
Wouldn’t high-speed rail access to all of those people pretty much kill the concept of high-speed due to the number of stops it would need?
With so many people living in suburbs or otherwise away from downtown, how does having to get to and from downtown make it easier?
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:03:02 PM PST
by
JeffChrz
(Dr. Atlas will shrug.)
To: wheresmyusa
Sputnik????
Sputnik was the high point of the old Soviet Union, not the United States.
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:06:23 PM PST
by
Brookhaven
(Moderates = non-thinkers)
To: wheresmyusa
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:06:41 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: UCFRoadWarrior
We're also losing our edge to China in control of the media and internet, government interference in citizen's personal lives, and, I suspect, abortions.
Obama wants to be Chairman Mao.
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:09:47 PM PST
by
Apparatchik
(If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
To: wheresmyusa
Moron doesn’t understand that the sputnik moment was one of OH CRAP! The Russians sucessfully put a satellite in space and jumped WAY ahead of the USA. Or maybe he is referring to an Oh crap moment coming at from China.
Really bad choice of words.
To: Apparatchik
Well, his advisors admire Mao, obama made glowing statements about China after he came back from the olympics there and both China and obama are in favor of internet censorship. China owns a big bunch of our debt and their leader was just here and was outright treating obama like they own him.
To: wheresmyusa
According to a post here yesterday China is planning to merge five cities into a single mega-city with a population as large as California. With a population density like that high speed rail makes a lot of sense. Bout outside the New York metro (where we already have high speed rail) it doesn’t make a lot of sense in the US. We would be better off just paying down the debt. And any investment money that can be squeezed out after debt payments needs to go to repairing existing bridges and upgrading the power grid. Both of those are ready to fail and if the go down no amount of high speed rail is going to save the economy.
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:18:02 PM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Texas resident
Zer0 IS the sputnik of our times. 2010 was the start of the awakening.
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:27:14 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: JeffChrz
"High speed rail" is about as realistic as "shovel ready jobs" and "green jobs" saving the economy. As for the chinese building "newer airports"--lol, what else? China is also building "ghost cities" to keep their burgeoning masses busy and under some semblance of control. Not a great model for the US to follow in the 21st century.
To: wheresmyusa
The “new” China is being built by the “old” USA, namely Coca-Cola, GM, Catepillar, etc.
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:38:09 PM PST
by
AmusedBystander
(Republicans may have helped drive the economy into the ditch, but Obama is driving it off the cliff.)
To: wheresmyusa
As far as I can tell, the only reason for high speed rail in Nevada is to give Harry Reid a hell of a lot of money for all the property he bought all along the line.
To: wheresmyusa
To: wheresmyusa
And the contracts for high speed rail here are going to Chinese companies.
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posted on
01/26/2011 1:59:48 PM PST
by
w4women
("All great change begins at the dinner table". Ronald Reagan)
To: wheresmyusa
Buffoon!
To: Texas resident
Moron doesnt understand that the sputnik moment was one of OH CRAP! I thought it was a world class Freudian slip. O is our sputnik moment. Overcoming him is the challenge of our age.
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posted on
01/26/2011 2:08:05 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(For love of Sarah, our country and the American Way of Life.)
To: wheresmyusa
Liberals have such a weird high speed train fixation. They think it will make us "more like Europe", as if that's a worthy goal.
If we want to be more European, it would be cheaper for us to just start a couple world wars every century, embrace mimes and let heat waves kill our elderly.
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posted on
01/26/2011 2:08:36 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Sounds pretty simple on paper, dead.
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posted on
01/26/2011 2:10:05 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
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