Transportation Secretary Wants Us to Be Like Communist China

Yes, that’s how Communists do it: A few people make decisions for the country and control the money, land, resources, and workers

Amy Payne, --July 9, 2012

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China’s attempt at a high-speed rail network is fraught with corrupt officials, impossible costs, and deadly safety failures. But U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wishes America would follow it as a model.
LaHood told The Cable last week:
The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. In our country, 3,000 people do, 3 million. In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don’t do it that way in America.

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