[Windflier]

Good gawdamighty. California is crumbling, and these people want $40 billion dollars of (other) US taxpayers’ money for a high speed rail network?

And just what on earth will this do to improve anything in California? What value will such a huge undertaking give back to the American taxpayers who fund it?

Pure insanity...

[South40]

What value will such a huge undertaking give back to the American taxpayers who fund it?

What value did the grandaddy of pork, Boston's "Big Dig" give back to the American taxpayers who funded it to the tune of $13 billion?

Such considerations, while important to sane Americans, have little effect on the pork-loving liberal yahoos in congress and the White House who believe it is their god-given right to squander our money.