California's high-speed rail needs $100 billion to finish -- scrapping the project is a possibility

[hunter]

11. We can't have nice things in the U.S.A. because we are special.

Our health care "system" is an expensive disaster, our transportation networks don't work, a third of our citizens are essentially illiterate and innumerate, our diets are crap, we can't build homes for the homeless, we can't keep keep guns out of the hands of fools and psychopaths, and our cops are dangerous.

*sigh*