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Originally Posted by pj67coll
I like the idea of high speed rail. Unfortunately it will never happen in this country. At least not properly. You might if you are vey lucky find a few local lines here and there but I'd like to see a large national high speed service which I'm afraid will never happen here. The problem with America is that everyone will expect it to be a self financing profit making endeavour. Whereas it needs to be a national infrasturcture project like the interstates. The inability to make that intellectual leap dooms the project from the start.
- Peter.
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Well, when it is billed as a self financing profit making endeavor, that is what we expect it to be. If you want to bill it as otherwise, you should show the math and show us where exactly the money to finance it will come from. When I tell the wife that I can buy this 2012 Vette and it can make us money, she will expect it to do so. When it doesn't, she will throw a hissy fit. Now if I want to buy it and say "It will cost us $X.", I also will need to show how we will pay for it and not with some magic numbers that include winning the lottery or some rich sugar-mama paying it for me.