[GOPJ]

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."

Democrats would have to be nuts to run Gavin... well, even nuttier than they are now.

[Jim Noble]

HSR is not, necessarily, a “colossal waste”.

Sending billions to California and getting NOTHING except for paid-off RAT bottom feeders is a colossal waste.

China has built 12,000 miles of HSR in the time that California politicians and their pets have consumed all that money. There are parts of the US where HSR would be a good thing to have - California is even one of them.

But before we are spending ten cents on anything in California, they need a functional government.

[econjack]

This is the problem with all gov’t controlled projects: there is no incentive to be efficient. 2021, Congress allocated $7billion for 500,000 EV charging stations across the US. While most of the money has been spent, so far there are 8 new charging stations.

[SuperLuminal]

Sir, do you own this date farm?

Well, we have to cut a 200-yard-wide swath directly through the middle of it and build a 7-mile detour so you can manage the other half of your farm...

Oh yes, we forgot to mention that the water canals feeding your farm have to be rerouted and slimmed down for efficiency...

Finally, we have improved the roads north of your farm, so your drives into town will have to be increased by several miles...

[DugwayDuke]

Every obligation refers to a colossal job program for union workers. These workers know if project is finished they’re out of a job. It’s also a great money machine for contractors, real estate speculators, etc.

[DownInFlames]

There’s no satire to the waste of this project.

[DownInFlames]

There’s no satire to the waste of this project.

[DownInFlames]

There’s no satire to the waste of this project.

[DownInFlames]

There’s no satire to the waste of this project.

[DownInFlames]

There’s no satire to the waste of this project.

[Chewbarkah]

I can’t deny the truth of Newsome’s claim.

My expectation from Day One: Billion$ wasted and stolen, major delays, budget explosion, nothing useful to show for it. Yep, he’s met every expectation.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Gov. Gavin Newsom. Sounds like Boss Tweed has been reincarnated in California.

[minnesota_bound]

The homeless industrial complex has spent far more then the train to nowhere. Newsom and the democrats are a criminal enterprise.
Newsom spent $24 billion on the homeless. The homeless population went from over 40,000 in Los Angeles to over 70,000.
He says he does not know where the money went...