CNN finds that spending is the only thing fast about high-speed rail

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CNN’s Drew Griffin has been looking beyond the politicians’ promises of high-speed rail transit and finds about the only thing going fast on the program is the rate at which tax dollars are being spent.

“We’re not building pieces of high-speed rail, we’re just wasting high-speed money fixing up old slow rails,” Griffin says in this video segment on Anderson Cooper’s “360” program.

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