Posted on 01/13/2014 7:38:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown released his headdesk-worthy budgetary plans for divvying up the first round of a planned state budget surplus, largely borne of the temporary tax hike voters elected to add via the ballot measure Proposition 30 in 2012: Namely, to use the ‘extra’ $4.2 billion in revenue to practically gloss over the state’s hundreds of billions in debt while growing their general-fund spending by more than eight percent. Part of that esteemed plan includes a provision to redirect some funds away from California’s cap-and-trade fund and into the high-speed rail boondoggle that Brown insists upon wearing as a political albatross around his neck — and only he knows why.
Fortunately, that little maneuver might be a bridge too far for some of California’s lawmakers, via the AP:
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to redirect $250 million from California’s landmark effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and spend it instead on his beleaguered bullet train has renewed debate about the future of the contentious project.
In defending that part of the budget proposal he released this week, Brown pitched the $68 billion rail line as the perfect way to unite a fractured state and help California “pull together to form a greater community.”
His proposal does appear to be uniting many lawmakers and interest groups, but perhaps not in the way the governor intended. Some Democrats who have supported high-speed rail have joined their Republican colleagues in rejecting Brown’s funding idea, and environmental groups are lukewarm at best on it.
The Democrats are mostly upset about the additional high-speed rail funding only because they don’t want that money to be diverted from their greenhouse-gas goals, but one Republican lawmaker is making another bid to get the high-speed rail project put back on a ballot and put in front of voters, and perhaps that’s what it will take to garner some bipartisan support to finally call it quits while they’re still ahead. SacBee reports:
For the second time in less than two years, a California lawmaker has filed proposed ballot language to put the brakes on California’s high-speed rail project.
Assemblyman Jeff Gorell submitted paperwork Friday to qualify the Stop the $100 Billion High Speed Rail and Reinvest in Education Act. The proposed November ballot measure is largely identical to the Stop the $100 Billion Bullet Train to Nowhere Act submitted by then-state Sen. Doug La Malfa and former Rep. George Radanovich in March 2012, which failed to qualify.
The high-speed rail opponents will need to gather just over 500,000 valid voter signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot, but the tide could be turning against the project; a poll in September found that a majority of Californians have seen just about all they need to see and are ready to scrap the high-speed mess for which they once voted.
Funny how this happens. If a republican governor diverted millions, in Browns case Billions, from other bonds and funds, democrats would be screaming
Half of Sacramento knows why. The big real estate speculators, politicians, and the heads of construction union/corporations (such as Bechtel) play illegal insider-trading pump-and-dump stock games associated with this monstrosity. Richard Blum and ChiFi, Willie Brown, and the Gerry Parsky Repulsivecans are in this game up to their necks. As soon as it's done, the State drops the stock on the bag-holders (probably CalPERS because their payments are guaranteed by taxpayers). I'll bet their uber-goons get a fat slice of the info-pie for selling out their "union-brothers."
They'll move on to the water tunnel and do the same thing.
Understanding this kind of game is why Trainor's book is a must read.
I would sure like to see some of the Cayman Islands and Bahamas bank accounts for some of these ‘connected’ folks.
They sure have done real well for themselves over the years,, FROM Chocolate Mountain to Tutor Perini.. from union head to studio head,, oh yeah, the gravy train has been running on schedule for certain folks for a long long time..
and now a HSR project comes along that Mussolini would be proud of.. welll.. yaknow.
and looky who wants to build it? on future dimes and the support of incoherent slaves called dhimmi voters, drunk on dope and fame.
MoonBeam? just the latest hanger-on feeding the elite their slop.. and pretending to be man of the people.. the question ought be asked.. what people?
Things change.. uhhh.. sigggghh.. so many opportunities lost and squandered to do some things right.. and that truly do benefit all.. and not just a few.
(1) Sheriff receives anonymous tip: "Marijuana being grown... or somesuch equally creative report."
(2) Sheriff arrests .... or in some cases, shoots ... Owner.
(3) Property forfeit under RICO Statutes
(4) Blum buys at auction
(5)State +Environmental Authorities decide land sole habitat of
The Chequer Belly Sap Sucker and the Variegated Newt.
(6) State (or Fed) buys land from Blum @ 25-100 times purchase price to add to ecological reserve lands.
(7) Blum parcels off any land that may lie along right of way for Hi-Speed Rail or other commercially useful potential, to hold for future development or resale to Rail Authority.
(8) System so fool-proof, copied by Boxer family. Barbara Boxer, whose sole use on the planet used to be to make Feinstein look intelligent, hasn't done too badly at keeping up with the scam ... even bringing Sonny in with Hubby!
In the meantime. California voters never seem to ask what the HUSBANDS of their Senators and Representatives might be up to. No one in Ca-Ca ever asks the question: "How did these people become BILLIONAIRES on government service?" Well, mis estúpidos de California, see 1-8 above for just one of the simpler ways.
Needum heap big map.
White eyes make do with little map
Squaw Man Blum own many many thousand acres Yellow Lands/Purple Lands
Squaw Man Boxer Papoose Boxer own hunting lands Purple Zone and land around town of Gay Men
Yenta Squaws no belong White Eye Senate. Speak Green Nonsense ... take Injun Land,White Eye Land, everybody Land. No Pay wampum. Steal. Frighten away buffalo
lmao. yo bwana, gold, not green. Choco-latte Moutin' one big heap.
Bin long thyme scents wammpum waste homo-phono-ear-otic.
Gonna be a helluva long time until I get offer "Yenta Squaw."
I sure remember that incident. It’s the case I think of whenever I hear of the police botching a drug raid and killing someone by mistake.
It appears, at least according to the Mormons, that the Yenta Squaws and their avaricious families have a much more legitimate claim to California lands than do those to whom we naïvely refer as, "Native Americans."
Wull, persunaly, I be hooked on Ebonics! Expecially dees days!!!
Mazeltov!
Or is that wunna them Mazeltov Cocktails, er sumthin??
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