It is amazing how quickly things may be built when you dont have toworry about appeasing the environmentalist. Its as simple as that.
1 posted on 2009年12月28日 20:20:36 by OldDeckHand.
我很惊讶，在没有环保主义疯子干扰下，工程的进度可以如此之快
China is doing incredible things while we rot and decay
4 posted on 2009年12月28日 20:27:30 by Scythian
中国正在创造伟大，而我们却在腐烂和衰败
I have to admit that I love the station architecture. Bright and openwith the trains right out on center stage, not shoved into a darkbasement like they are at Union Station here in Chicago. The Chinesemeasure their success by the things they build, and they are justlyproud of their feats of engineering. Where we turn out ethnic studiesgraduates they turn out electrical engineers.
I worry most about adversaries that are builders. The fanatics burnout, you can outlast them like we did with the Russians. The thievesdestroy themselves. But the builders grow stronger with every day thatgoes by.
5 posted on 2009年12月28日 20:27:54 by GonzoGOP (There are millions ofparanoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
I also note that there were no UNION Thugs/Leeches getting their 25%cut on this deal and drawing this construction out to a typical 15-25years.
For a comparison compare notes on the Boston Big Dig which was 350%over budget and still 20+ years overdue... but hey its a Democratconstruction job in a overwhelmingly democrat state.
9 posted on 2009年12月28日 20:34:33 by prophetic (0Bama = 1 illegalpresident = 32 illegal, unconstitutional & unnecessary CZARS to dohis job!!)
China has been a society of builders from before the Communists, andwill still be builders long after they are gone. The Grand Canal, GreatWall, in the same way that militant civilizations celebrate theirgenerals builder civilizations celebrate their engineers. America wasonce a builder civilization. We celebrated the skyscrapers of New Yorkand Chicago, the Hoover dam, and the Saturn V moon rocket. Today wecelebrate Tiger Woods and Lady GaGa. Something happened in the 1960s wechanged from builders to consumers. We lived for 50 years on the legacybuilt up by 184 years of frantic building. But that legacy is exhaustedand we much now either rediscover our builder heritage, or becomeanother Rome, that once built great things, and now survives by sellingtours of the ruins.
19 posted on 2009年12月28日 20:48:38 by GonzoGOP (There are millions ofparanoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
California is still waiting for its LA to SF high speed rail line to be built. Which will take a lot longer than four years!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you willfind only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by thesword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
20 posted on 2009年12月28日 20:50:12 by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
加州还在等待落山及到旧金山的高速铁路计划的批注，这审批已经超过4年了，而中国人已经把铁路造完了。
Yeah, we couldn’t finish environmental impact studies in four years.
If we tried to build a transcontinental, high speed rail line, theChinese & Japanese would be using Star Trek style transportersbefore we ran the first train.
22 posted on 2009年12月28日 21:02:54 by sjmjax
是啊，我们还没研究完其对环境的影响呢
我估计等我们的高速铁路建成通车时，中国人，日本人的星际旅行服务都开通了。
And the 9/11 site IS STILL A HOLE IN THE GROUND
23 posted on 2009年12月28日 21:02:58 by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
中国高铁4年通车，而我们的9/11遗址现在还是个大土坑。
Up here in the People’s Republic of Vermont we have been trying toget a ring road built around Chittenden County for more than 30 years.A road. One fricken road.
24 posted on 2009年12月28日 21:08:05 by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
我们佛蒙特州的一条环城公路已经耽误了３０年还没搞定呢，就一条破路
The phrase heard around the Big Dig project was “don’t kill the job”,which meant don’t get the job done right the first time. Or even thesecond.
I wish we could build something like that. But unfortunately we lackthe engineers/specialists due to an educational system that’s gearedtowards creating unproductive serfs.
Faster and cheaper as well, since these trains run onelectricity(which can be generated locally) rather than importedpetroleum based jet fuel.
32 posted on 2009年12月28日 21:22:01 by artaxerces
既比我们的快，也比我们的便宜，用电而不需要进口石油。
That and not having to wait around for shipments of parts from Chinabecause you only ship them within your country which happens to beChina where everything in the world is made anyways.
Eight years later, thats still a hole in the ground.
36 posted on 2009年12月28日 21:28:38 by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
跟我们的世贸中心遗址形成鲜明对比，8年过去了，现在还是个大土坑。
"Totalitarian regimes are always efficient but ineffective."
Im not sure I would agree with the "ineffective" part - nefarious to be sure, but not ineffective.
Unlike the Soviets Union, who didnt engage in the kind ofsuper-Neo-Capitalism that China does, I dont believe that China willcollapse under the weight of itself. China has somehow managed tomaintain a firm grip on its citizens, while also using theunquestionable benefits of its manufacturing and trade policies withthe west. We are, for the first time in history, supplying the capitalrequirements of our enemy through the mechanism of (somewhat) freemarkets. Its a very strange dynamic, and one that - so far - China hasbeen very adept at exploiting.
Some people talk and other people do. Can you figure out which we are now?
53 posted on 2009年12月28日 22:26:34 by dmanLA
一些人做实事，一些人说大话，我们现在是那种？
A great society is not defined solely by the big buildings andmonuments it builds. Most of the world’s greatest inventions of thepast century that made our lives better, longer and easier were made inthe USA.
55 posted on 2009年12月28日 22:31:45 by SW6906 (6 things you cant havetoo much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
伟大的社会不光靠建筑成就来定义，人类上世纪大部分科技发明都是美国创造的。
That is very true. We must also remember that during the 19thcentury, the U.S was the greatest perpetrator of technologicaltheft/industrial espionage in the entire world. And considering thatChina is now in the top 3 in terms of annual technology patents when 20years ago, it wasn’t in the top 50, this is alarming news.
