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Now Obama Wants To Build A $5 Billion Bullet Train From Las Vegas To Nowhere
Business Insider ^ | 03/25/2012 | Michael Blood

Posted on 03/25/2012 4:46:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 03/25/2012 4:51:53 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- On a dusty, rock-strewn expanse at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a company linked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to build a bullet train that would rocket tourists from the middle of nowhere to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: bullettrain; lasvegas; obama
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1 posted on 03/25/2012 4:46:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 03/25/2012 4:47:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (question)
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So what happens when ‘The BIg One’ hits California?


3 posted on 03/25/2012 4:49:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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Mormon control of the Senate is a problem.


4 posted on 03/25/2012 4:51:54 PM PDT by Paladin2
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If it actually went into LA it might work if the fares were reasonable, but this idea will never work.
5 posted on 03/25/2012 4:51:54 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Best solution for gambling is to move it over to the internet and shut down the clubs and gambling joints.

There's simply no need for all that glitz and waste.

6 posted on 03/25/2012 4:53:00 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Republicans for Reid??? No real Republican could support Dingy Harry. They must be “on the take” from Reid funnelling federal goodies their way.


7 posted on 03/25/2012 4:53:55 PM PDT by Lysandru
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The best gambling on Earth could be an Ap on your Android or IPhone!

Vegas is a relic and ruin waiting to happen.

8 posted on 03/25/2012 4:54:29 PM PDT by muawiyah
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'Agenda 21' alert. Restricting flow of the masses while at the same time using their tax dollars to fuel the 'Union' Democrat party campaign donations machine.
9 posted on 03/25/2012 4:54:44 PM PDT by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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Whatever happened to the mag-lev train that was to be built between LA and Vegas?


10 posted on 03/25/2012 4:57:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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It has to be along an Agenda 21 proposed corridor.


11 posted on 03/25/2012 5:01:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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What pikers!! California is now projecting around $100 billion for their bullet train to nowhere. (Any bets that the actual costs end up far exceeding the current “estimates”?)


12 posted on 03/25/2012 5:01:09 PM PDT by Bob
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I can't think of a better Obama memorial then an unaffordable express to nowhere.
13 posted on 03/25/2012 5:01:30 PM PDT by dog breath
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Just when you thought they couldn’t do something more stupid, they come up with this. When they come up w/a train that can do 500 mph, then we can talk.

Pray for America


14 posted on 03/25/2012 5:01:36 PM PDT by bray (Power to We the People)
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HIGH-SPEED TRAIN_2
15 posted on 03/25/2012 5:09:27 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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the other link that is rediculous is from fresno to merced. that is the first link that will be built and ridership will be very low. from san francisco to los angeles would make far more sense, or from los angeles to san diego. no matter estimates are that it will be 20 years before the first run. over 1,000,000,000 dollars goes into engineering and environmental studies


16 posted on 03/25/2012 5:10:13 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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This was Harry Reid’s request under the stimulus bill. I remember doing a parody on the song, people get ready, there’s a Train a coming, the night that stimulus bill was passed.

The train was to run between Disneyland and Las Vegas. I believe that $800 million dollars was allocated for the train. i’ve been wondering what happened to the money. I should have known that it was being held back for the election,

Can you imagine sending vacationing families from Disneyland on to Las Vegas?


17 posted on 03/25/2012 5:11:00 PM PDT by Eva
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Since the Big 0 told everyone to stay out of Vegas, Reid needs something to boost his polls.

Staying out of Vegas is the only thing that I have done.

While the card dealing, bed making and casino unions keep supporting Reid, I will not be back.


18 posted on 03/25/2012 5:17:20 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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People get ready there’s a train coming
You don’t need no baggage you just get on board
All you need is some faith to hear the diesels humming
And you don’t need a ticket you just thank Harry Reid.

I’ll let you people get ready for the train to Vegas
You don’t need a ticket you just get on board

A large chunk of or stimulus money was allocated for the preparations for Harry Reid’s train.


19 posted on 03/25/2012 5:24:12 PM PDT by Eva
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the pos is a swindling pimp
20 posted on 03/25/2012 5:26:03 PM PDT by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)
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