Posted on 02/02/2015 9:34:20 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama's Budget Includes Windfall For L.A. Transportation
By NOAH BIERMAN AND W.J. HENNIGAN President Obama's budget earmarks $1 billion for transit in California, including $330 million for L.A. The budget proposal unveiled by President Obama on Monday earmarks more than $1 billion for California transportation and construction projects, including $330 million that Los Angeles officials called crucial to extending the Purple Line from the Mid-City area to Century City.
Overall, Obama would spend more than $800 million on transit throughout the state — including $165 million to expand the Bay Area Rapid Transit system to San Jose and $150 million toward a light-rail project in San Diego — as he tries to make the case that infrastructure spending will propel a faster economic recovery.
Little-known agency keeps commuter rail network on track Little-known agency keeps commuter rail network on track The plan also would seed California with money for weapons systems, allot more than $600 million to build and renovate Veterans Affairs facilities and set aside more than $200 million to help the Jet Propulsion Laboratory send another rover to Mars.
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BS, it’s a payoff for housing all those new illegals. Oh and I forgot, they never lost both houses. They’ll get the money.
POS O
Other than, you know, large oil pipelines to bring Canadian and American oil to Houston refineries and exported from Houston ports... or offshore drilling facilities... or nuclear power plants...
“Crumbling Infrastructure”:
What in hell was the stimulus for....???
Crumbled after five years??
Why don’t we just stop paying taxes to the feds and let states tax their citizens to pay for their own transportation and such?
Just ignore what Obama says.
Congress does the budget.
Correct, but will the rhino congress ignore him?
weapons systems?
Talking about road rage?
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
It’s for the UNIONS.
Didn’t they just pass “CRomnibus” to keep the government funded for a year? Talk about meaningless.
California would make out better in your suggested arrangement since it pays more into to Feds than it gets back.
This is completely different. This is payola to reward the people that got the One elected.
I think most all of the states would do better.
So many tax dollars are lost in filtering through so many hands and trickling back to the different states.
If California doesn’t change, it will someday stop being one of the largest contributing states.
Anyhow, I think it would be good for states to be responsible for themselves, it would cause the poorer states to work harder to find ways to change their position.
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