The president today submitted his 2012 budget request to Congress. He seeks to freeze domestic discretionary spending for five years, but that's after increasing such spending more in his first two years in office than it has under his last two predecessors combined.
It has become abundantly clear that this president has no clue of what message the American people sent him last November. His continued devotion to the idea that the American people want high speed railroad underscores the point. China develops high speed railroads because its people can't afford airplane tickets. That country's air traffic network is severely underdeveloped.
In the United States, every major city of more than 70,000 people is served by an airport capable of landing and departing airplanes as large as a Boeing 767. The idea that we need high speed railroad, when airplanes are faster and more efficient is just ridiculous.
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