We are all Greek now

Obama is quite a throwback. In some ways, he would return us to centuries past. His administration is spending trillions to build high-speed trains, despite minimal consumer demand. Trains are a 19th-century technology. Subsidies are also doled out for wind power, a medieval technology. Meanwhile, the space program is all but jettisoned. Rather than rely on fossil fuels, the president would make America run on renewable energy. The last renewable in widespread use was the horse.