More often than not, when politicians utter āvideo gameā in a sentence, it is usually in a pejorative fashion. Here is one occasion when it wasnāt.
The United States does not have high speed rail like, say, Japan does. So when U.S. law makers were discussing how advanced Japanese rail is, they did not hesitate to mention how impressed they were.
At a congressional hearing, the Associated Press reports that Illinois Republican Dan Manzullo said he took the bullet train two years ago from Nagoya, where he visited Toyota Motor Corp., to Tokyo. I got to sit right up in front,ā the congressman said. āIt was almost like a video game,ā he added. āYou have to try that sometime.ā
President Barack Obama revealed an economic stimulus package with eight billion dollars for building a high-speed rail network in the U.S.
āJapanās population, its density, its geography, make it entirely different when discussing public transportation than with respect to the United States,ā California Republican Representative Ed Royce said. āWe look at economic merit when addressing infrastructure.ā
Perhaps weāve reached a point in which video games can be used by politicians to describe good things!
US lawmakers wowed by Japan bullet train [Yahoo!] [Pic]
