Posted on 11/01/2011 1:39:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s a point where Insane Spending is High Treason...
So that`s the loud sucking noise I hear coming from the west...I was wondering......
What a HUGE waste of money.
Can you say, Solyndra?
Is Willie Green still here, or did he get himself banned again?
Surprise! Surprise! (in my best Gomer Pyle voice)
C'mon Man! No one saw this coming?
So by that time you'll have a 2033 system running on 2012 technology. That should be interesting.
There are patron saints for most everything. As far as earthquakes go, there are four saints historically associated with earthquakes.
Saint Agatha (d. 250); feast day 5 February. Associated with earthquakes through her intercession in preventing eruptions of Mount Etna.
Saint Francis Borgia (1510-1572); feast day 10 October. Pope Benedict XIV proclaimed Saint Borgia the patron of earthquakes in 1756. Saint Borgia worked in Portugal and in 1756 about 50,000 people were killed in Lisbon by an earthquake.
Saint Gregory of Neocaesarea (213-268); feast day 17 November. Saint Gregory was known as the "wonder-worker" because of the various physical miracles he performed; some said to change the course of a river as an earthquake might.
Saint Emygdius (d. 303); feast day 9 August. This is probably the favored earthquake patron saint in California. Padres are said to have prayed to him when earthquakes struck. After the Great Fort Tejon quake in 1857 Bishop Thaddeus Amat asked Rome for permission to observe the feast of Saint Emygdius in the Monterey Diocese. Pope Pius IX said yes 9 January 1858. In 1863 the range of Saint Emygdius was expanded down to Los Angeles.
I belong to St. Francis Borgia Church in Cedarburg, WI, and we haven't had an earthquake during the 27 years I've lived here. ;')
All the Pols pray to St. Porkulus.
Saint Jude
The patron saint of impossible causes.
Did these people, by any chance, ever do a Big Dig up in Boston?
Wha???
The cost has skyrocketed and its delayed almost 13 YEARS too?
B...B...But that can’t be! My flabbers are completely ghasted!
Yes, my FRiends...we have another contender for entry in the GNS Hall of FAME.
Bury this mile high pile of crap now! This is absurd! How bad do these games have to get before someone yells ENOUGH ALREADY YOU DAMN IDIOTS!!!
“California has an annual budget of $86 billion this year, which the new estimate exceeds — and they can’t even find the money to fund that.” California is “saved”. The money is coming from their new CO2 cap and tax. The only trouble is keeping businesses from existing California.
And this train would pay for itself when?
Never.
Why would one build a train that would never turn a profit?
Because it would alleviate traffic congestion and reduce air pollution.
Oh, so you expect lots of people to use the train.
Well no, because most people would rather drive their own car or fly.
So you are building a train line that few people will use and you think it will reduce traffic and pollution. How can it do either of those things if it gets few people to leave their cars and planes to ride the train?
Well we Hope that we can Change people’s minds with advertising and education.
Bullet train my ass!....It’s a bullet disaster!....Woopee!...
“The first leg of the project is slated for the middle of Central Valley — not between major cities, or congested freeway corridors like San Francisco and San Jose or Orange County and Los Angeles. The Central Valley site is between Borden — a point on the map where no one lives — and Corcoran, a town where half the residents will never board a train because they’re in prison.”
“The state hopes to leverage the public money into billions in private investment. But so far the ridership numbers put out by the state don’t support profitability, thereby requiring a government guarantee. That is something supporters won’t admit, since it would likely sink the project.”
A project only a damn democrat could love!....shoveling taxpayer money down a rat hole!
They will have to tax the commuter air lines out of existence to pay for this expensive boondoggle.
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