Its amazing how little foresight the U.S. has when it so our infrastructure...even our energy. Here's a clip of what the S. Koreans have done, maximizing the use of their infrastructure, decreasing reliance on carbon energy and providing a means for non-auto travelers to travel more safely. The even have a super train, which I have rode, that can get out from one end of the country to the other withing 2 hours (used to be a 6 hr train ride), for $75 in business class. This is one, of the many reasons, why we have diminished as a country. We'd rather spend our treasure chasing terrorist and financing regime changes and invading countries in the middle-east instead of doing what needs to do here on our own soil
Do so many young Korean women attend U.S. tunner car events? They aren't promoting mass transit.
The bike lane would be built to the side of the highway requiring thousands of extra acres to be got through imminent domain. Instead of solar panels to shield bicyclist from sun and rain commercial, electrically lit billboards would do the job, and the cost to light them would be passed on to tax payers making less than 50K/yr.
They even appointed a Czar like official to head the project, good for him but completely ridiculous in my book.
Baltimore the city that bleeds... it's tax base.
Korea seems to have killed several birds with a single stone while Baltimore practices bureaucracy financed by the citizens.
Baltimore the city that bleeds... it's tax base.
but the Feds too.
Baltimore the city that bleeds... it's tax base.
For perspective, South Korea is 20% the size of California....
Who mans the DMZ?
How many?
How long to build?
don't recall the data but it is amazing. US has no - none - bullet trains.
Good jobs program, but unions, environmentalists,, etc make all efforts to build too costly.
The Chinese, for all of their accomplishments over the last few decades have a horrible record for quality and safety. I think I'll pass on the Chinese bullet train, I'll take a real bullet if I want to kill myself.
It has everything to with the State of the Union:
"I pledge allegiance, to the Flag of the Divided States of America. And to the PACs, for which it stands, one Nation, at odds, divisible, with Liberty and Justice for some.”
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
The real reason is we as people and those we sent to congress are on a mission of self interest instead of national interest. More specifically, we are country controlled by the wealthy and their paid lobbyists, and the politicians they fund in elections.
Don’t expect anything better until our infrastructure becomes worse than the developing countries such as China and India.
India is building elevated mono rail in all their big cities and are working with Japan to connect major cities with high-speed trains.
We on the other hand are debating how we can legislate bigotry as in Indiana!
America has the worlds largest concentration of drug addicts... Talk about self interest VS National interest.
Don’t expect anything better until our infrastructure becomes worse than the developing countries such as China and India.
India is building elevated mono rail in all their big cities and are working with Japan to connect major cities with high-speed trains.
We on the other hand are debating how we can legislate bigotry as in Indiana!
America and its "dream" has degenerated into a massive hypocrisy. We are now the largest imperialistic, terrorist power on the planet. Our once globally admired democratic republic is now a fascist corporate oligarchy. Our once cherished and fought for individual privacy and liberties has been replaced with "freedom" of product choice in the market place.
I guess it's time for the corporate media brain-washers to start advertising yet another widget that is guaranteed to make our lives meaningful and whole because the rest of the shit obviously ain't doing it for us.
and I am as healthy and happy as a man can be. Of course I do "self medicate" with alcohol, but since in my case "nothing is broken" I see no reason to try to fix it.
I will agree that we are as overmedicated a nation as I could possibly imagine. Personally, I don't even take aspirin, and my days of recreational drugs are well behind me, so booze is my drug of choice. I sorta wished I still liked pot as I am quite aware that while claiming that "it's good for you" is a bit of a stretch, I certainly won't argue the fact that it is by far the "least bad for you", and a hell of a lot safer than any of the pills being shoved down Americans throats by Big Pharma
when tiny kids (3-4 y-o) are expected to go to school and sit quietly at a desk, and then go home and do homework. If they're lucky they might get a 30 minute recess, but even that's not available to many kids these days as playgrounds are being sold off to developers. Those kids, who aren't meant to sit still at that age, are fidgety and disruptive, of course, so the teachers give the parents a hard time, and then the parents put the kids on ritalin. And so it begins...
Kids and the majority of adults are addicted to sugar.
...metal technology à la "Terminator" while we're trying to perfect the breakfast burrito."
I didn't have anything else to do, so I watched SNL. I liked their rip on CNN. For some reason you remind me of Monyahan's(sic) character on the MK and Portia skit. I was at a loss as to what that was supposed to be.
Democratic anti-industry regulations are the reason the U.S. doesn't have shape shifting liquid metal R&D.
Not by me, anyway.
There are many Americans continually mocking the Chinese and Russians with their false belief, Chinese and Russians are failures at invention, resorting to copying, similar to posters constantly copying and pasting Huffpost concoctions of exaggeration.
An advantage most Chinese have over many Americans obsessed with perfecting the breakfast burrito, and other nonsensical research wasting time, very few Chinese spend a second googling Kim and Kane's latest shopping trip .
The link below is old news showing there are more capable and inventive people World Wide than American popular opinion decrees.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20975580
When people are not focused on isms.
country smells like human urine and crap radiating from the open sewers that run along the streets. Take a trip outside of Seoul - which stinks too - and you would see it. Pohang with it's steel mill is lung cancer waiting to happen.
Sure, guy. What a waste! Hunting down people who have shown us how willing they are to kill us, indiscriminately. Why, we could all be packed into metal capsules next to strangers. We could be just like South Korea.