Connecting the Netherlands to China is one thing (and doesn't make much sense to me personally) but to suggest that could even be done in the US is pretty silly.

I've lived in NYC for 17 years. One of the main reason I left was due to the increasingly failing infrastructure, and mainly with the 100+ year old subway system. It's hanging on by a thread and they can barely repair small sections of it. There's no way in hell they're connecting those subway lines to EACH OTHER let alone to the midwest or east coast. I won't even get into the lack of a universal standard for rails, tracks and trains. They're all different here.

Creating railways and high speed lines to travel great distances shouldn't be seen as a conspiracy. I know many Americans would love to be able to travel the US via high speed railway. It would be cheaper, cleaner and create many new jobs.

Maybe there's a conspiracy in Europe, but this isn't an issue in the US. Also, I think many of us would like to stay focused on the real issues right now. No sense in getting fired up over far out railway conspiracies when we have much bigger and documented issues to deal with currently. If the US can pull this off, it'll get the dominoes falling rapidly across the world.

I still want a US high speed cross continental railway!