> nobody will pick up the required bill and infrastructure will just continue degrading to Third World status? Laos, the poorest country in South East Asia whi

> nobody will pick up the required bill and infrastructure will just continue degrading to Third World status? Laos, the poorest country in South East Asia which I guess would qualify as Third World, has a brand new Chinese-built high-speed railway. So I guess US railways are already worse than "Third World status".