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California's bullet train hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun, federal report warns
Los Angeles Times ^ | 01/14/2017 | Ralph Vartabedian

Posted on 01/14/2017 4:56:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Fai Mao

Watch Sheldon Cooper’s affection for trains on TV Sitcom Big Bang Theory. He is typical of the left that is in love with trains.

Many have fond memories of Thomas The Tank Engine and of Mister Rogers Neighborhood. As with Sheldon Cooper, they have not made the personality transition from child to adult.

I claim The Big Bang Theory paved the way for Trump by making political correctness and California intellectuals look so incompetent to function in real life.


21 posted on 01/14/2017 5:17:08 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Fai Mao

Trains are a way for politicians to show concern for the land while funneling billions of dollars to cronies and union workers.


22 posted on 01/14/2017 5:17:27 PM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: SeekAndFind

A government project over budget, late, and the final result of no use to anyone except the grossly overpaid government bureaucrats and contractors swilling from the taxpayer trough.


23 posted on 01/14/2017 5:19:48 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: SeekAndFind

And commander gov. moonbeam screamed that they were going to launch their on satellites?


24 posted on 01/14/2017 5:22:40 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile, a vast amount of water from the recent precipitation in the state, enough to supply the state for several years, runs wasted out to the Pacific Ocean.


25 posted on 01/14/2017 5:31:18 PM PST by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And when the pension funds dry up, tell them to ride the train.


26 posted on 01/14/2017 5:44:52 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If only there were some way to quickly travel between SF and LA, this bullet train thing wouldn’t be needed. I wonder why nobody has ever invented something that could actually fly between them. :=)


27 posted on 01/14/2017 5:53:24 PM PST by Bob (Now, Republicans get to sing "Happy Days Are Here Again". Enjoy the suck, rats.)
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Has a single “spike” golden or otherwise been struck yet? I do not think any construction at all has even happened yet (though I could be wrong), I wonder what the total quantity of money that has been spent (for everything done so far) on this project. I bet that number is unobtanium, and at least two orders of magnitude greater than any public figure, and furthermore at least 95% of the actual real number went 100% to graft


28 posted on 01/14/2017 5:55:53 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ha, the guy on the right of the pic looks like he had a liquid lunch. As would I at that height!


29 posted on 01/14/2017 6:26:01 PM PST by W. (A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats continue whining about DJT wanting to take us back - even as they champion dated subsidized technologies like passenger trains and windmills.


30 posted on 01/14/2017 6:44:40 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Cancel this piece of crap President Trump.


31 posted on 01/14/2017 6:52:27 PM PST by databoss
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To: SeekAndFind

That picture has always scared the heck out of me.


32 posted on 01/14/2017 6:58:09 PM PST by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: libertylover

RE: That picture has always scared the heck out of me.

I know, but those were the times when men were men. They built the Empire State Building in 18 freaking months!! At the height of the great depression.

Those were the times when America possessed a CAN-DO spirit. Now, we can even build a subway station without talking about it to death, much less overrun the cost of a freaking bullet train ...

We are no longer the country we used to be.


33 posted on 01/14/2017 7:02:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind (q)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

As Chairman of some congressional committee, DiFi funneled gazillions of $$$$$ to herself and her husband. When someone finally said something, she ceased the chairmanship, but continues her evil ways. Creepozoids all.


34 posted on 01/14/2017 7:16:20 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: stocksthatgoup

I, for one, am shocked.


35 posted on 01/14/2017 7:34:25 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: libertylover
Check out the dude on the right end. Looks like he's holding a flask. Boy, would OSHA have had a field day. Of course, thats probably a good part of the problem now, too.

Golden Gate went up under budget and ahead of schedule with very little loss of life. There were lines of workers standing by daily in hopes of getting work. Different times. Different generational attitudes and work ethic. A lot less government interference, to, I'll bet.

36 posted on 01/14/2017 7:44:35 PM PST by canalabamian ("The same things win, that always won..." Coach Paul W. Bryant)
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To: SeekAndFind
Shocked face


37 posted on 01/14/2017 7:56:52 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

“I think the real engineers and cost accounts figured the cost at least 100 billion”

indeed the official cost estimates had gone that high at one point, but they knew they couldn’t keep selling this white elephant at that cost, so they pretty much faked a bunch of things to bring the cost overruns down to something more reasonable looking, though actually entirely fake.


38 posted on 01/14/2017 10:06:01 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: from occupied ga

Everything after your first three words is redundant.


39 posted on 01/15/2017 12:44:52 AM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Fai Mao

>> What is the deal the left in the US and trains?

Control.


40 posted on 01/15/2017 12:56:23 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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