Look At These Three Photos And You'll Never See Amtrak The Same Way
Why isn’t developing a world-class rail system a national priority? Oh, right . . .
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I see them just fine, and the OPs don't have any edits. 
Acela isn't by any stretch as fast as ICE or other high-speed trains, but it's an imporvement over the regular ones.
Typical Chinese commuter train.
You cannot compare their high-speed rail lines with our local commuter lines, it is being disingenuous.
Compare apples to apples instead.
You can pick any pictures you choose. Here's one of the Acela, pulling into New Haven, and one of a regular Amtrak engine pulling into LA's Union Station. They both look newer than that ancient engine (though I can attest that those are still in use: I live near some busy train tracks in the heart of a large city).
Washington's dismal Metro system could be running Amtrak.
Because when I rode it, it seemed like a top knotch way to travel. 
I liked it, but it was, indeed, ten years ago.
and you'll see what the 1700s look like.
We don't need no steeeenking trains or mass transit, we got cars and miles of highways
that get clogged everyday.
You have no idea what you're missing.
(I liked the Blue Route from Rockville MD into the capital when I visited, thought it was better than
sliced rye bread)
There were cars and miles of highway in Tampa in the 1700s?
Day-um. I must have missed that day in history class. I was always taught that in the rest of the world, people were walking, riding in a cart, or riding on the back of an animal. Meanwhile, unknown to the rest of the world, in Tampa, Florida, there were cars and miles of highways!
those people were riding in carts and on the backs of animals on? sheesh, our education system is the almost bestest in the country and we have the unfunded polytechnic institute to prove it.
I hereby declare you the winner! 
their rail infrastructure, I can't help but wonder how much of it was built by child labor, slave labor, or prison labor, and what fraction of it would bear a Prop-65 warning. I also can't help but wonder how long the engine shown in that photo will last before it's either destroyed in some accident or falls apart. The F40PH has been in service since the early 70s and provided unionized jobs to American workers. Good luck matching that with a made-in-China locomotive.
Here's what China was using at the same time:
Here's China's awesome high-speed rail now:
Here's what else China spends its money on:
I guess when you're Germany, with a land area 1/27th the size of the US, a rebuilt infrastructure courtesy of the Marshall Plan, and having caused a war that obliterated the landscape (thus obviating the need for costly and disruptive eminent domain), high speed rail would be pretty easy.
An apples to apples comparison might be nice next time.
On a modern German Highway - the A20
And in the USA in 2012:
