[SterlingSilver]

At a time when the country is buried in debt, Federal spending remains out of control and the Republicans are laboring to try to craft various ways to reduce the national debt and get the Federal budget under control, there are proponents of money sucking High Speed Rail Projects that still don't get it. WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR THESE BOONDOGGLES!

John Mica (R-FL7) Chairman of the Transportation Committee, has been dancing around this unpopular issue in Florida, leading many to believe that his position on HSR is not really favorable.

In an unguarded moment last night however, he got caught speaking the pesky truth about where he really stands... He considers himself the best cheerleader for HSR.

Mica = a real RINO

[WOBBLY BOB]

no Mica,that was Willie Green.

[US Navy Vet]

CRAM IT Mica, YOU inflicted the TSA AND the “Homeland””Security” Dept on US. Swive(look it up in the dictionary) You RINO!

[11th Commandment]

So all the new Governors immediately axed all high speed rail programs.... but Obama thought it would be a good idea to promote... what a maroon.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

John Mica used to be one of the best American Conservatives in the GOP....now he has gone full Al Gore Liberal Globalist

Part of the agenda of the Free Trade Communist/UN/Globalist crowd is to take people out of their cars and put them on “mass transportation”

We do not need high speed rail....we cannot afford it.

[Hodar]

Gotta disagree - Mica is not the 'Best Cheerleader'

May I offer an alternative choice?

[Doc Savage]

Fire him! Point blank!

[livius]

Actually, he’s not. I’m not sure exactly what this refers to; just last week he said there was absolutely no reason for the Orlando-Tampa high speed rail and he was going to do everything to get it defunded.

There’s nothing wrong with HSR in general, if it connects places that are reasonably far apart where a sufficient number of people want to go and need to get there quickly (between two large but distant cities, for example); but almost all of these HSR projects are nothing but pork, and there’d be no ridership if they got built.

Mica is very much behind the idea of a Jacksonville to Miami coast passenger rail, which I think is a great idea. It’s not HSR, however, because it needs to make a fair number of stops - but it would be a lot faster and easier than driving.

I think they just got Mica in an out of context remark.

[Wuli]

Florida needs high speed rail as much as Orlando NEEDS another theme park, which is nil.

If the theme park industry in Orlando is unsatisfied with the number of flights coming in and out of Orlando’s airport and thinks they can get THE NATION’S taxpayers to help get travelers flying into Tampa/St.Pete shipped into and out of Orlando on high speed rail, their nuts.

They can build it themselves. I’m sure Disney could do it if it wanted to and make a profit (if it was run FOR Disney on Disney’s terms).