>>So, if they're saying it'll cost another $100B to complete, the real cost is probably $250B. If they say it'll be done by 2030, it'll probably be 2035 at the

>>So, if they're saying it'll cost another $100B to complete, the real cost is probably $250B. If they say it'll be done by 2030, it'll probably be 2035 at the earliest. And that's fine. As a country we need to stop thinking in the short term. Unless we want to start acting like China and just bulldoze our way across the country regardless of property owners, residents and the environment, this is how it has to be. At this dismal level of spending efficiency, the US would go bankrupt long before it matches China's scale of public works construction. So if the choice is between falling behind China as an industrial power, or exercising eminent domain, and sidelining environmental regulations and labor unions, to get infrastructure built like China, the choice is easy. Build the way China does. Every major US city being connected by high speed rail lines would have innumerable benefits far exceeding the costs associated with rapid construction.