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1 posted on 05/01/2018 10:26:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I hope the catch the politicians who have been stealing.


2 posted on 05/01/2018 10:34:38 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Olog-hai

Claw back the money.


3 posted on 05/01/2018 10:41:19 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Olog-hai

About time.


4 posted on 05/01/2018 10:44:10 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t trust any feds any more either tho.


5 posted on 05/01/2018 10:50:34 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Olog-hai

The problem of getting a person across a state from border to border in a day’s comfortable travel is not by speeding up a train or highway speed limit. For California (and Texas, perhaps) it would be by subdividing the state into three or four smaller state-sized manageable governed areas. As it was for the Carolinas, Virginia, and the Dakotas in other years, to wit. Mot joking.


7 posted on 05/01/2018 10:56:28 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Olog-hai

This is like the whitest of white elephants, not to be racist or anything.


9 posted on 05/01/2018 11:35:32 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Olog-hai

Can they arrest Gov. Moonbeam for defrauding the US Govt? I’d love to see him in a jail jumpsuit. A fitting end to an asshole Marxist wackjob.


10 posted on 05/02/2018 12:10:46 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai

IF the original rules written in the proposition had been followed not one dime would have been spent because private funding never showed up


12 posted on 05/02/2018 12:29:17 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Olog-hai

*** essentially a pet project that’s billions in the red, seven years behind schedule and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less. ***

I can drive from the Bay Area to any place in Los Angeles faster than this Slow Boat to China.


13 posted on 05/02/2018 2:06:59 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Olog-hai

After millions spent on unsuccessful eminent domain suits, and hundreds of millions more in paying contractors not to work, the chances that any federal funds are left are slim, leaving Calif in the awkward position of facing federal fund clawback.

A trip down memory lane, and I doubt much has changed since:
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-tutor-20150303-story.html


15 posted on 05/02/2018 2:29:25 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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One way to stop this.....ban bullets in CA! /sarc


19 posted on 05/02/2018 4:09:56 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Olog-hai

Who all has relatives moving out of California, because spending your retirement paying $10,000 a year in taxes for a snail train is uneconomical?


23 posted on 05/02/2018 6:04:20 AM PDT by TheNext
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To: Olog-hai

The whole purpose of this train was to launder taxpayer through Democrat supporters into Democrat coffers.
As far as I can tell, it has been a smashing success!


24 posted on 05/02/2018 6:12:26 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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“The cost to move power lines, construction cables and other utility components out of the way was estimated to be around $25 million....In five years, that number has jumped to nearly $400 million.”

Sheesh.


25 posted on 05/02/2018 6:15:54 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Olog-hai; Willie Green

Paging Willie Green, Paging Wille Green, Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

(I actually miss the Willie Green Happy Choo Choo threads.)


29 posted on 05/02/2018 7:38:57 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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“”According to the DOT, the inspector general’s audit will examine the Federal Railroad Administration’s oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.””

First I’ve ever heard of a Federal Railroad Administration. Maybe they should have stayed “hidden” as they may have a lot to answer for....

Why would it have to have gotten to this degree of boondoggle before someone blew the whistle?


32 posted on 05/02/2018 5:39:27 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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