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Re:Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in... by sneak on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:36PM (#24854105)
The big reason is because the US spends an amount of money equivalent to Jeff Bezos’ entire net worth (~200B USD) every 80 days on its military.

Amtrak’s annual revenue is less than 4B USD.

On that basis, I agree with you wholeheartedly. It would be nice to use some of that massive amount of money for infrastructure, versus funneling it to a dozen companies who exist solely to consume as much of it as possible.

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Re:Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in... by onepointsixC on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:46PM (#24863110)
DOD spending is ~15% of the total budget. Blaming defense expenditure when 85% of the US total budget is not defense expenditure is an unconvincing argument.
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