NOT long ago, Barack Obama was hoping that high-speed trains would provide America with thedesired twofer. First, building the special tracksand locomotives would put a division or two ofAmericas army of unemployed back to work. Then,once built, the trains would get people out of carsand planes and to their destinations in a way thatwould be cleaner and use less foreign oil. But thosedreams have mostly died. Republicans havedecided that government spending, not outdatedinfrastructure, is the real bogeyman, andRepublican governors in Florida, Wisconsin and Ohio have rejected federal money to beginbuilding.
前不久,奥巴马希望通过高铁的修建给美国带来梦寐以求的两项实惠。第一,高铁轨道的修建及机车的制造将会让美国的无业人员重获工作。并且,一旦完工,人们的出行方式将从汽车和飞机变成高铁,一种更加清洁环保并且可以减少使用国外石油的出行方式。但这些美好的愿望几乎已全部幻灭。共和党人决定政府的开支不应花在过时的基础设施建设上,这是建造高铁的困难所在,在弗罗里达,威斯康星和俄亥俄州的共和党州长已经拒绝了用联邦州政府的公债基金建设高铁。
Only in California does the dream live on. As Governor Jerry Brown, aged 73 and aDemocrat, likes to remember, another big railway project in the 19th century connected theyoung state to the rest of America. In the 1960s his father, Pat, served as governor and builtambitious aqueducts and highways. In the 1970s Mr Brown himself became governor for thefirst time, and had visions of his own grand projects. These, as much as his theological bentand his liking for meditation, earned him the nickname Governor Moonbeam.
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