Ray LaHood in Hopes and Prospects

On Technology: Seeking high-speed rail suppliers in Europe

Even the Wall Street Journal ran dire warnings about the "climate disaster," urging that none of the options being considered may be sufficient. Many also understand that it will be necessary to reverse the vast state-corporate social engineering programs since World War II, designed to promote an energy-wasting and environmentally destructive fossil fuel-based economy, and that a central element of these changes will have to be development of efficient high-speed rail systems. It is revealing to see how the problem is being addressed.

Spain and other European countries are hoping to get US taxpayer funding for the high-speed rail and related infrastructure that is badly needed in the US. At the same time, Washington is busy dismantling leading sectors of US industry, ruining the lives of workforce and communities. It is difficult to conjure up a more damning indictment of the economic system that has been constructed by state-corporate managers.

Source: Hopes and Prospects, by Noam Chomsky, p. 95-96 Jun 1, 2010

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