Now, look, the…this is America
RV sent out this quote from Obama at the Town Hall meeting yesterday afternoon. Sounds like he wants to invest in infrastructure.
This should be a wake-up call for us. You go to Shanghai, China, right now, and they’ve got high-speed rail that puts our railroads to shame. They’ve got ports that are state-of-the-art. Their airports are — you know, compared to the airports that we — you go through Beijing airport and you compare that to Miami airport?
Now, look, the — this is America. We always had the best infrastructure. We were always willing to invest in the future.
You know, somebody — Governor Crist mentioned Abraham Lincoln. He — in the middle of the Civil War, in the midst of all this danger and peril, what did he do? He helped move the intercontinental railroad. He helped to start land grant colleges. He understood that, even when you’re in the middle of crisis, you’ve got to keep your eye on the future.
So transportation is not just fixing our old transportation systems, but it’s also imagining new transportation systems. That’s why I’d like to see high-speed rail where it can be constructed. I would like for us to — to invest in mass transit, because, potentially, that’s energy-efficient, and I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally in terms of how we plan our transportation infrastructure.
The days where we’re just building sprawl forever, those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats, everybody recognizes that that’s not a smart way to design communities.
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