China managed to build a massive high speed rail network across rough terrain and completely inhabited land in a few years. Their network is safe and reliable.

China managed to build a massive high speed rail network across rough terrain and completely inhabited land in a few years. Their network is safe and reliable. I've noticed it's becoming increasingly common to just give up and excuse everything in the US. "Well we could build new rails, but..." "Well we could get health care prices under control, but..." "Well we could solve (x problem that most other countries don't have), but..." It's kind of a sad decline from being the world leader by far like the US was 50 years ago. There's always a billion reasons to not do something, but not much push to actually do something.