What idiot would possibly support this kind of corrupt boondoggle???!!!
A train wreck before there’s a train.
breathtaking insanity
Spend $3.5 million a day
and
complete a 130-mile segment?
Would you settle for one out of two?
Here goes what they’ve done to prepare for this:
1) Shut off water to many central valley farms. If you’re not donating to the right people, your farm is going to wither. Driving up the 5 or down the 99, you saw field after field of prime farmland turning to dust.
2) Buy up land in the way - hey, might as well profit from the deal.
3) Change laws to suit your whims... California, such an eco first state, has waived the ability of individuals to sue to stop things like wind farms, solar projects or...high speed rail.
4) Pick who wins - Of course, the only neighborhoods that will be torn down to build this are...conservative Hispanic communities. The path seems to most favor any church that isn’t down with the whole amnesty Azland abortion loving thing.
And any city that might have had enough clout to fight it? Well, they just take all the redevelopment funds and cut off funding from the state - keeps them from having enough money to sue.
All aboard for the express ride to Greece! California will do to America what Greece is doing to the EU. California refuses to cut out-of-control spending and they vote for politicians that keep on spending. The same politicians who are chasing the productive folks that employ people out of the state. The bloated welfare crowd won’t move out of state and the powerful government workers unions will preserve the 100k a year pensions for those who retired.
You know how the story ends.... the rest of the country will be forced to bail them out. Rinse and repeat. Their congressional delegation is so powerful that they will bend us over more than once to pay for their spending ways.
Just watch.
Hey I got an idea to pay for this boondoggle.
Why not raise taxes on gasoline to $25/gal. Look at all the money the state will have then. Or better yet, sell San Francisco to the Chinese, and let the Chinese pay for the train.
Afterall the Chinese built most of the first train tracks in the Golden State.