The failed GOP Confederacy seems incapable of new ideas. It is painfully obvious that when they can't win by attacking an idea's merit--which is most of the time--they fall back on the only strategy left in their tattered playbook: attacking it as "pork." Conflating "pork" and "stimulus," the GOP Confederacy's Jefferson Davis--Sanity Secessionist Rush Limbaugh--coined the fringe-right's newest term--"porkulus"-- with obedient ditto-ditz Michelle Malkin immediately parroting the Oracle of OxyContin every chance she gets.
Such is the case with high-speed rail. Some of the benefits of rail investment include highway congestion relief, job creation, a decreased dependance on foreign oil, increased capacity and better economy of scale in cargo logistics, and environmental considerations. It would behoove us as a country to consider that high-speed trains are currently in operation in France, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Taiwan, and Japan, with expansion and upgrades underway in China, as well.
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