We need to modernize the crumbling US infrastructure!!! We need to create thousands of US jobs!!! We need to modernize Amtrak to a new modern design.
Currently Amtrak is running on old, loud, environmental dirty, trains with a top speed up to 150 mph (240 km/h). We can upgrade Amtrak to a Maglev (magnetic levitation) train system. A german designed Maglev train as been built in Shanghai, China achieving a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph), averaging 266 km/h (165 mph)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weWmTldrOyo
Our infrastructure is crumbling (literally) and we need to repair it and modernize it instead of fighting wars to save our economy.
Upgrading our infrastructure will literally be the biggest US Construction project in US History and it'll give a much needed boost to the US economy.



