In the editor: The Pentagon is expected to spend a shocking $ 2.1 trillion In the F-35 fighter jet Chogram. This weapon system is struck by cost overruns, technical failures and delay. Many military analysts think now that F-35 is no longer available, a cold war relic in a world facing different threats.
However, the trumpet administration has no concern. In fact, it is recommended that the pentagon budget increases By $ 150 billion this yearhaving fun with a lot of money on war engines.
Now it’s different from the high-speed California project: a first-in-very-very US system expected to make thousands of jobsrouse billion Of economic activity and easily reduce carbon emissions. Instead of supporting this vision of a clean, especially connected to America, the Trump administration actively humbles it (“Trump administration sees ‘unable to live path’ to finish high-speed rail project, act to pull federal funds,” June 4).
This is a repeated vision: We pour the trillions when we invest $ 2.1 trillion at a national high-speed railing network, which reconnects the regional economies of the long-term infrastructure.
It’s time to find out our priorities. The California High-Speed Roil project deserves more support, less.
Donald Flaherty, Burbank
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In the editor: The fight of high-speed railroad is funny. I just got back from three weeks in Japan, a place where the trains were running the country’s length and width and ordinary trains connecting trains to no. If a person wants to go from Tokyo to Kyoto, they don’t think of flying or driving, hoping a train. Compared to Japan, as we are at the age of stone when part of transport. Furthermore, these trains run clean electricity and prevent harmful fumes of exhaust.
Murray Zichlinsky, Long Beach
