Posted on 02/22/2019 6:54:44 AM PST by Moonman62
I live in the state of California . it is an open secret that the money was stolen by Nancy Pelosi, Dian Feinstein and Pat Brown. lots of angry people. the state used money of its own that would of better used taking care of infrastructure and increasing the states ability to retain water for agriculture.
Get it all back. Make California go bankrupt.
I’m liking this President more and more. He fights.
Now, now.. Don't be so non-inclusive.
Dontchya think we oughtta let any Kali-lefties onto that one-way train?
Mebbe SanFranNans & Co. since they thinks it's so great "down there". d;^)
Yep, he’s going to ruin their “brand” and brand them as just another den of thieves.
I disagree. Libs really do have this childlike love of choo choo trains. I think they thought they could pull it off. Certainly the idiot voters who voted for it in referendum thought so
Actually, libs hate “choo-choo” power, which is coal-fired steam.
Taken for a Ride on the High-Speed Rail Project
To no avail, I’m afraid.
A full and complete independent audit of the project and ALL associated monies should commence.
According to the United States EPA, management authority includes an effective administrative tool to address waste, fraud, abuse, poor performance, environmental noncompliance or other misconduct: The authority to suspend and or debar individuals and entities.
Suspension and debarment actions prevent companies and individuals from participating in government contracts, subcontracts, loans, grants and other assistance programs. The effect of suspension and debarment by a federal agency is government wide. Suspension and debarment actions protect the government from doing business with individuals/companies/recipients who pose a business risk to the government. Debarment is the state of being excluded from enjoying certain possessions, rights, privileges, or practices and the act of prevention by legal means.
So there is a legal tool within the government based out of The Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act, passed in 1977, which sets out to guide government agencies in their use of Federal funds and the government can recover those funds upon failure of the project.
Using the excuse that it has not been done in a long time is not acceptable. We are not talking about moralities. We are discussing a financial obligation. The money can be recovered.
rwood
Cough it up California. It was ridiculous to saddle the taxpayers of other states with the cost of this boondoggle to begin with.
Unheard of, my derriere.
They’re called clawbacks. And have been done before.
Collect that money and apply it to building the wall.
Heck they can even name it the ‘Golden Wall’.
I suspect California cancelled the project, because Trump refused to give them the last billion.
:: Gee, I wonder what we could use that money for? ::
An infrastructure project of some sort? Using the remaining steel purchased for the HSR?
Let me think...
If we count both state and federal expenditures, California has already wasted more than the entire cost of President Trump's wall on this stupid project that they are now closing down.
Remember that the next time a lib claims that the wall is "too expensive".
“I suspect California cancelled the project, because Trump refused to give them the last billion.”
If that was the case Newsome would have been howling about it before he cancelled. If you’d followed CA’s “train to nowhere” you’d realize CA has not been spending the federal funds on the train, most likely diverting them to other projects, schemes, political campaigns and individual bank accounts. It was a scam Jerry Brown ran with his buds. Newsome has different buddies and is new so he cancelled it because it is a huge legal and political liability.
could he sue the obama gruopies to get the Solyndra money back??
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