I think what Jack's getting at is that he wishes the US government would fund awesome mass transit instead of just dicking around with drones and defense budgets. Which, I hasten to add, is pretty progressive!
I think what Jack's getting at is that he wishes the US government would fund awesome mass transit instead of just dicking around with drones and defense budgets. Which, I hasten to add, is pretty progressive!
Imagine a maglev going up and down the east coast hitting all the major cities there.
And I bet we could do it with the budget we've got, and don't put fucking words in my mouth WUB.
If we just cancel just one useless military project, like the B-3 Bomber project, then we can build one of these maglevs! Progress all over the place, Jacky boy. City on the Hill.
Imagine a maglev going up and down the east coast hitting all the major cities there.
And I bet we could do it with the budget we've got, and don't put fucking words in my mouth WUB.
If we just cancel just one useless military project, like the B-3 Bomber project, then we can build one of these maglevs! Progress all over the place, Jacky boy. City on the Hill.
I'm asking why do we have to choose? Its not like on the Office where they had some money leftover in the budget and they had to decided between new office chairs and a new print machine. We've got separate budgets for transportation and weapons R&D, so we could have both a cool new maglev AND an awesome bomber.
You've got such a simplistic view of government it's cute. Adorable, even. Here, check out this and compare it to how much the Maglev in China was estimated to cost. Compare it to this. Even if we completely replaced Amtrak we probably couldn't afford to build an East Coast maglev. Even if we were China, who is willing to take land from people and doesn't have to fight political battles every step of the way.
We don't need an awesome new bomber. No one else is developing bombers. All nuclear strike capability is ICBM based these days. We should spend $100B of that $300B program on buying the Iron Dome from the Israelis and then fold the remaining defense budget into transportation.
We're better equipped than literally every other military on Earth. The Chinese are building their first aircraft carrier, and we have a fleet of them just to prove a stupid point.
Also, it actually is 100% just like that episode of the Office.
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...I'm OK with this.
And I bet we could do it with the budget we've got, and don't put fucking words in my mouth WUB.
Even if we completely replaced Amtrak we probably couldn't afford to build an East Coast maglev. Even if we were China, who is willing to take land from people and doesn't have to fight political battles every step of the way.
We're better equipped than literally every other military on Earth. The Chinese are building their first aircraft carrier, and we have a fleet of them just to prove a stupid point.
Also, it actually is 100% just like that episode of the Office.