Posted on 02/12/2019 1:30:35 PM PST by EyesOfTX
The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
This afternoon, California Governor Gavin Newsom kicked Jerry Brown’s great high-speed rail boondoggle to the sidelines, announcing a major scaling-back of the $100 billion Bankruptcy Express:
“Let’s level about the high-speed rail,” Newsom said. “Let’s be real, the current project as planned would cost too much and, respectfully, take too long. Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were.”
Oh.
But wait – what about this “Green New Deal”, and its pipedream promise to “build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”? If we can’t build a single such line from “Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A.”, what then of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s grand plans to connect apparently every significant city, town, village and dot-on-the-map with such lines in 10 short years?
The answer is obvious to anyone whose cranial synapses are firing, which apparently excludes all elected Democrats and everyone working at a major fake news media outlet like CNN.
It is important to remember that, about a decade ago, the initial estimated cost for Jerry Brown’s Boondoggle came in at $29 billion. As the years dragged on the estimates of course rose – as happens with any big-government socialist land grab. As Newsom pulls the plug on about 2/3rds of the thing, the current cost estimates are now in the $100 billion range and rising every day.
So when you see some talking head “expert” tossing out a Green New Deal cost of $40 trillion or so in today’s dollars, just remember that a decade from now that number will almost certainly have climbed well to the north of $120 trillion or so.
Gov. Newsom is a far, far leftist himself, and certainly didn’t mean to do it, but his announcement today well and truly put the leftist, fake green lie to any rational thoughts that AOC’s “Green New Deal” might ever be doable.
To quote Shakespeare, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
That is all.
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Which is just about the real cost of Trump's wall.
Old Shakespeare was pretty harsh on bloggers, huh?
Did they not put enough in that envelop?
“Bankruptcy Express?” I was thinking “Moonbeam Limited.”
How about a “Browndoggle”
Willie Green heartbroken.
An excellent response to “we can’t afford the wall”
And we know how to build walls...
And on rebukes made by heroes of rebuke.
Well the first three words of the headline were true and accurate!
You could have stopped after just three words.
I considered it.
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