Boldy going into the past!

Well, our commander in chief, President Obama, has decided what we really need is a high speed rail system. Why? Well, because they have it in Europe, of course! In fact, he points out in Spain you can travel the 386 miles from Barcelona to Madrid at 150 miles per hour! Of course, here in America, I can travel the 3,000 miles from the east coast to the west coast at over 600 miles per hour. It's called flying. Or I could drive at close to 100mph. These are the technologies that rendered the passenger train obsolete. But Obama thinks going 1/4th the speed from one fixed point to another is great, at a cost of only a few hundred billion in new spending. Yes, you can combine the flexibility of the plane with the speed of a car. As he outlined his proposal, which should have been drafted with crayons, he said "this is not some fanciful vision of the future". Finally he is correct, it is a vision of the past.