not much a mark twain fan but fitzgerald is a must read, greed and emptiness of american dreams, in the last 20's and even 100 year later, the same. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”
Don't care for fiction when it comes to commentary, real world has better, more direct, accurate stories. BTW Fitzgerald, surname not writer, is part of my family tree/heritage.
are you saying twain's novels were documentaries. and he was from the deep south, sure didn't know much about american excess and old money class.
Actually not. We should not underestimate our competitor. Aside from economic viability, most of those projects are impressive as hell.
It is suspicious that all of a sudden we would get so many migrants from China, a country that still has the second largest economy in the world. If people from a country that has the second largest economy are "immigrating" like that, then what are countries that have no economy to speak of gonna do? LOL I can't help but think this is their tactic in retaliation against the USA for the supply chain diversification trade policy. "You don't want to buy from us to give us money? Fine, then we will come straight to your door to take it from you and more!" And there are so many of them and there is no way of checking their background and their identity properly.
$17 billion for that airport? But ya can't drink the tap water anywhere in the country?? And the restaurants go out back to lift the manhole cover off the street to get cooking grease. For all the so called grand projects, the country sure is a shithole.
That is cheap and it looked great in the photos I saw. We budgeted $30B to upgrade LAX. We are halfway there. After spent $15B, it still looks kind of run down. We budgeted $128B to build high speed rail linking LA to SF. After spending $6B, we haven't built anything of significance. And when finished, it won't start from LA Union Station and won't end in downtown SF, only at the outskirts on either end. When I live in a glass house, I won't dare throw rocks at them.
I recalled watching a YouTube clip when they first opened. I think it was 11 billion, including a 2 lane high speed train from airport to a nearest transit hub, a 6 lane highway from the city ring road. Buy the thing is that it is too far, about 40 miles out, compared to its old airport, which is about 15 miles.