Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "Why China Is so Good at Building Railways" video.

@daniel11111 You're talking about two different things. Military spending definitely has a lot of benefits. Creates high paying jobs, security, protects global US and allied interests, and more importantly a lot of the technology gets kick backed into modern life. In a perfect world we would do both but for whatever reason the US is garbage at large scale infrastructure projects especially when it starts crossing state lines. I blame politics personally. Our government has some serious flaws. It is slow to move and we can't just bulldoze houses and kick people out to create them either.
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@LK-pc4sq Exactly density is the issue. If we pop out a billion more people than rail looks appealing. Also cheap labor. The Chinese government has accures nearly 1 trillion in debt I guess from the lines and some aren't being used like they should although I'm not sure if that is due to Covid or it was happening before hand. Honestly just make a coast line one. No reason places like Boston, NYC, Philly, DC can't have one and maybe down to FL hitting up Atlanta etc. Phily to Chicago. China does have the population density to pull it off but let's see if they can keep maintaining the lines. Americans still want the golden dream of having their own house as well. I would be happy with just freaking local networks being improved.
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Problem is two fold. Can they keep up on it and with their debt overblowing especially for their rail lines (nearing a trillion I guess) it remains to be seen. Yet they have the population density to really make it work.
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