Mel Brooks’ THE PRODUCER will give you a better understanding on what is going on with the High Speed Train.
In the movie, the producer oversubscribes his play and then presents a bad play which closes the first night. No one expects to be re-paid and no-one audits the books. (All is well until one of his plays becomes a success and his scam is exposed).
Democrats know how to play this game well. The High Speed train will most likely never get completed regardless of how much money is spent.
“We’re on the road to nowhere.”
Couldn’t help but notice that China’s high speed rail network was not mentioned . It is the world’s longest and most extensively used – with a total length of over 25,000 miles .
I began reading Atlas Shrugged in 1972. I’m almost done.
“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.”
The US is a disaster.
California is destroyed.
one of the best books I’ve ever read. Bottom line is though, everything out of liberals parallels Ayn Rand’s take in her writings. I fully see a John Galt move right now with Truth Social and other entities that are creating a place for conservatives to go without the mental illness of the left controlling us.
Yes, looking at the map, it makes quite a longer route, taking big East detour from LA and then making smaller detour West at San Jose. Kind of zig-zag!
The biggest problem with building anything of that scale in US is getting through the lawsuits. NYMBY!
We had freeway build in Phoenix - 30 years of lawsuits, 2 years of building.
Basically, with the laws how they are, we cannot build anything!
Everyone knew it was going to fail. Everyone knew it was ridiculous and hyper-expensive. Yet the whole state (and country) accepted the BS and happy green slogans coming from California Government.
This is how a country fails - when no one cares about the truth and lies are just shrugged off
Well, yeah, but that didn’t prevent Rand from making high speed trains a big thing in her novel.
“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.” Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.""The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF. The company pulled out in 2011.
SNCF was a French company, experts at building bullet trains, who came onboard California's project only to leave in frustration.
>> In that chapter from the fictional book, <<
Oh, I’m pretty sure the book exists. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Might be fiction, but it’s not fictional.
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.
I had some time to waste so I went to antilogicalism.com.
The word “overread” has never crossed my mind until now. Blog author Joshua has clearly done too much reading. Seems in spite of that he’s completely non-selective, indiscriminate, mentally gaseous beyond anything I’ve encountered since Marcel Proust.
There is an entry explaining why he chose the word “antilogicalism.” It explains nothing in about 1200 words not counting the plentiful quotations.
Joshua, you should have called it omphaloscopy.com.
Quit reading and form some conclusions. About anything.
Ping
“The aristocracy of ‘pull’”
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This was not a project to benefit the people of California. It benefits politicians, their families, their friends, and the unions. It is a never ending cash cow. That is all anyone needs to know about it.