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Posted on 07/26/2025 11:00:04 AM PDT by John Semmens
In 2008, California voters approved a $9.95 billion bond measure to construct a high-speed rail system between Los Angeles and San Francisco by the year 2020. Seventeen years later and 1300% over budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that "the project has met every obligation and we are now fast approaching the track-laying phase."
President Trump questioned "whether a project that was supposed to be completed by 2020 can honestly be said to have met every obligation' seems dubious. The original promise made to voters was that the trains would've been carrying passengers for the last five years. Now Gov. Newsom is shamelessly heralding an approaching start of construction when the only sensible course of action would be to cancel the project."
"High speed rail is not a worthwhile investment of taxpayer money," Trump argued. "It will never carry enough paying passengers to cover the cost of constructing and operating the rail line. It cannot match the speed nor the efficiency of air travel. It will needlessly scar the landscape. For these reasons I'm discontinuing the federal subsidies required to keep this colossal waste going."
Newsom accused Trump of "surrendering the future to China. They are pressing ahead with investments in high-speed rail. Instead of allowing wasteful personal automobile ownership to dominate their economy they wisely discourage it. We need to do the same. Letting people decide where they want to go and how they are going to get there caters to selfishness. Good government needs to stifle this anarchic individualism in order to promote the welfare of the collective whole. This is the change the World Economic Forum is trying to implement to save the planet. Democrats are in step with this way of thinking. Trump and his neanderthal MAGA minions are not. Voters need to appreciate this and choose wisely in the next few election cycles if the world is to avert calamity."
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Not quite true in the cases of the transcontinental rail lines
THAT ALL NEEDS THE DOGE WIZARDS ATTENTION
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