Posted on 02/12/2019 1:33:27 PM PST by Liberty7732
The decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a dedicated progressive, to curtail California's high-speed rail project over cost concerns is a sign that the Green New Deal is doomed.
The creation of a vast high-speed rail network is just one small part of the massive overhaul the Green New Deal contemplates for transportation, energy, healthcare, education, agriculture, housing, and a host of other issues. Yet now it's gone down in flames in a state that previously voted for it, and in which liberals have overwhelming control of government.
The California high-speed rail project started when residents approved a ballot measure in 2008 for what was supposed to be a $40 billion project linking the Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Francisco areas. The project received a boost from President Obama's economic stimulus legislation. Obama had made high-speed rail a central part of his vision for " winning the future" in his 2011 State of the Union, envisioning linking 80 percent of the country by high-speed rail within 25 years. When Republicans in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida rejected high-speed rail money, it got shifted into the California project, which was supposed to be an example to the rest of the country.
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AOC is *not* amused!
Che Cortez,,,
Spontaneous Human Combustion Mosheen!
Spontaneous Human Combustion.
You win the Internet today!
Really funny!!!!
He’s only doing it to steal the 3+ billion in Federal ObamaGrants.
McCarthy praises California governor for abandoning ‘train to nowhere’
She will be putting funding for it somewhere fast.
OMG.. what will Ocasio-Cortez say about her fellow Democrat here, who is pulling the plug on a train???
Gavin Newsome did something that is the opposite of Brown? Is Hell freezing over??
I just hope we see it on Tape!
Thanks Liberty7732.
Forget the infrastructure costs, even without that hurdle it’s all a pipe dream. After all, if we shut down all the power plants, there would be no electricity to power the trains, or the “electric cars” for that matter. Since they want to get rid of all the cows, they certainly wouldn’t let us all go back to horses and buggies either.
So really, the best we could hope for under this plan would be for everyone to be riding bicycles everywhere.
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