Trump to Use ‘Nuclear Option’ to Recover $2.5 Bn from California’s Failed High-Speed Rail Project

Breitbart ^ | 2/22/19 | Joel Pollak

[gaijin]

The courts are FILLED with examples of Da Gummint spending vast sums in order to recover tiny tax sums from citizens:

Spend a million to recover $50,000 from Joe Schmoe? No problem.

Yet task that same Gummint with recovering funds from other GOVERNMENT entities and PRESTO..!

It’s difficult, and no money is avaiable to do it, ect etc

I find that interesting.

[pepsi_junkie]

“There is a reluctance to penalize misspending by local government agencies. … Almost never do those violations result in terminations, in part because federal agencies are set up to distribute money, not take it back, and they also lack funding for strict grant enforcement,” the Times added.

One of the many reasons that poor men win elections, serve for nominal sallaries yet somehow magically emerge as very wealthy men.

Take a billion of someone elses's money, skim some off the top then accept bribes to send it in the direction of this or that union that in turn spends it on campaigns for you and your friends. Nothing gets built, more money is needed and gotten and it happens again. Everyone at every level is in on it and does nothing about it.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Good. Just take All Fed monies back, and that would obviate going Abe Lincoln on Sacremento with the National Guard.

[goldstategop]

CA is complaining it should get to keep federal bullet train money after it axed the bullet train.

The chutzpah of it all has to be seen to be believed.

[anton]

In Cincinnati, we ended up with a failed streetcar because the DOT would have demanded the money back had it not been completed. With cost over runs and mounting opposition, the best argument made by its proponents was the problem of having to return the billion dollars to the feds.

[Moonman62]

And having to return the money would have revealed a lot of thieves.

[oldtech]

The people who did this SHOULD be facing prison time. They never delivered anything but more cost overruns & now apparently can’t return funds already paid out....if I understand correctly. I’d say that calls for a LOT of prison time. A civilian contractor pulling a stunt like that would have gone away a long time ago, I believe. Then if they find the money was spent on other things; that seems like fraud added to fraud.