China passing the U.S. in rail infrastructure

I found this article while on the "Trains for America" blog. It is an article in the New York Times written by Keith Bradsher. The article talks about how China is currently in a spending frenzy, like the one it seems we are about to have. But unlike our plan (which currently has very few provisions for rail), the Chinese plan calls for massive construction of high speed, intercity, commuter, and freight train lines running throughout China. Highlight a few points from the article:

-This year China plans to spend $88 billion on intercity rail
-Our (American) plan calls for 5% of roughly $800 billion to be spent on transportation, (which will be mostly highways)
-China has spent almost as much as they did on the Three Gorges Dam on one high speed train line
-In the last FOUR years China has built as many miles of high speed rail as Europe has in the last TWENTY years

While China surges ahead in high speed, intercity, commuter, and freight rail, the US is left in the dust. President Obama has not made nearly any provisions for rail infrastructure in his bail out plan, especially compared to the Chinese. This is very disappointing of the new president, I expected better for rail when I voted for him.

Here is the URL of the NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/business/worldbusiness/23yuan.html?_r=1