re: Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high-speed rail.

I live in Fresno. High Speed Rail sucks. It’s a visual blight. It’s extraordinarily slow to be built even where they have the okay to build. We’ve got to be close to 7 or 8 years from when they first broke ground and they still haven’t completed it through the city proper. We”re talking like a 10 mile stretch on flat land alongside a freeway. No hills, valleys or mountains to get in the way. Just existing property that needed demolishing. That’s about as positive as I can be about this boondoggle. If you get into what the state was sold on the cost and see where it is now.. then the moral side of using eminent domain to take private property.. it’s government at its worst. Which is truly angering.