Business travelers in France can get on 250 mile an hour trains that leave from clean modern stations on time. American businessmen can sit in traffic on the way to aging airports over broken roads or take old slow trains that bump along rails that were obsolete in the 1960s. Because we can't afford modern railways in America. We can afford a trillion dollar war in the middle east in which the government airlifted crates of cash that then disappeared. 
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