Posted on 10/09/2022 7:00:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
Come on, man....
This ‘disfunctional’ process is exactly what the democRATS want. Spend other people’s money on a variety of things. Every foot, yard, and eventually, mile of the train is challenged in Court by nonprofit entities funded by, yes, you, the taxpayer. Local, State and Federal grants go to hundreds of non-profits whose only mission is to sue, stall, and destroy. The reasons for these lawsuits vary, and almost all are left wing wacko ideas: global warming, global cooling, climate change, equity, racism, white privilege, did I mention equity. The reason the Bar Association gives millions to the democRATS is that the democRATS create so many rules, laws, regulations that no one can really follow, and provide a myriad of avenues for lawsuit after lawsuit.
AND, before one shovel disturbs one piece of dirt, MASSIVE environmental research must be done, reviewed, edited, redone, and then examined by.. yes.. another attorney from another nonprofit. Once all this ‘private’ action takes place, then the big government lawyers begin their ‘work.’ In the name of ‘protecting the FILL-IN-THE-BLANK, more and more analysis must be done. Towards the end of all this mandated insanity, a completely different nonprofit, once again funded with tax dollars, can easily sue, claiming another myriad of issues (Native American, Snail Darter, or an interruption of Nancy Pelousy’s ice cream supply).
We were born and raised in
California. I remember when Ronald Reagan was our Governor, and took on the academic wackos. Today, Reagan would probably clone The Duke, John Wayne, send thousands of Wayne clones to slap the BLEEP out of these liberal creeps. While I have the optimism of Reagan, and we may see the national pendulum swing back to the good and the light, I believe in Kalifornia the lawyers and nonprofits will still be in Court after we are gone.
Good, we don’t need French companies building railroads in the USA.
And so have the Spanish, and the Japanese, and...
This isnt a technical problem. Its a systematic problem. And this paralysis of American systems is a symptom of why the US is doomed. Or doomed to some existential crisis anyway.
So whaddya think, Newsom? Results of your mismanagement are piling up.
Not to worry...all will be well when our engineering schools are fully wokified and we turn out millions of highly wokified engineers.
Now that’s funny.
At least they are right on target by my estimation.
Problem, as usual here, is having any type of government numbnuts involved beyond approvals. Has to be private sector, a'la Spacex, planned, built, and run for profit.
When the French think you’re dysfunctional, you must really suck.
—> It’s like putting up telegraph wires in the age of the Internet.
Yes. Way faster and more cost effective to send heavy freight digitally online.
Well Morocco economically is 2nd world.
Don’t tell me that the worse things don’t happen in Kalifornistan.
We have nothing like the population density of Japan, or even Europe.
And it certainly isn’t there in the Inland Empire of California.
The latter one hopes In those events in the words of Admiral Halsey ‘ordinary men rise to extraordinary challenges’.
Interesting analogy, but rail involves moving massive amounts of mass, and not electrons.
I’m not talking freight, i am talking passenger rail.
When your graft demands piss off even the French!
Interesting that no American railroad has come forward to take this on. Pretty shameful for the country that invented the railroad.
Agreed. I think these rail proponents all suffer from some mental issue. And they use eminent domain not only to wreck peoples lives (multigenerational), the Transit insiders and liberal politicians get filthy rich.
My state included. Sound Transit, the most corrupt public agency in America, is TWO DECADES behind schedule and a Gazillion Dollars over budget and their trains kill. Sound Transit also has perfected the bait and switch fraud to an art form.
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