Posted on 05/17/2019 7:41:25 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Trump administration declared California’s high-speed rail project dead yesterday, even while state officials extolled its beautiful plumage. Noting that the state had abandoned the full San Francisco to Los Angeles vision which prompted federal funding for the project, the White House pulled back nearly a billion dollars — and said it would come after the remaining $2.5 billion in federal investments as well:
Put simply, this project has been a disaster from the beginning. Newsom and California officials claim that this move is payback for their opposition to Trump’s border policies, but these decisions stand well enough on their own. California sold the federal government and its own voters a bill of goods on high-speed rail, and Newsom and other California officials want everyone to pay for it anyway. The Trump administration is right to take back our money and tell Californians to fund their own boondoggles.
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- Claw back a billion or two in choo-choo money
- Spend it on The Wall
- Watch heads explode
Repeat as necessary.
But... what our homeless drug addicts and all the illegals going to do???
I’ve been involved with enough federal aid transportation projects to know you can’t change the scope of the project, as outlined in the project funding documents, without out Fed approval. If you do, then you risk the feds taking the money back.
Its all spelked out in the agreement. However, I’m sure some POS judge will side with California.
Pretty sad when I used the word spelled, and then spelled it wrong...
If that isn’t WINNING, nothing is...
“- Claw back a billion or two in choo-choo money
- Spend it on The Wall
- Watch heads explode”
1) Name a section of the wall in CA after the choo choo.
Put up huge signs with big lights, and oodles of fanfare
3) Hold mother of all rallies at that section of wall while emphasizing that it
is the choo choo wall.
4) Win CA for first time in 30 years
When Trump Trolls, America Wins
Call it the Willie Green Memorial Anti-Invasion Barrier.
Most Americans declared California dead even while state officials extolled its beautiful plumage.
If California wants this turkey let California pay for it.
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In before the NeverTrump build the wall FReepers.
Yes!
CA doesn’t want it. That’s why construction went no where. They just wanted the Fed money for their budget to spend on other projects which is why it was righteous to cancel funding and pull back what CA hadn’t spent. CA officials should be brought up on charges for their blatant fraud and theft.
I remember when a million used to be a lot of money.
Dedicated sections of wall with the name on it. Many people would donate to that.
I read the proposition before I voted on it. It called for $10,000,000,000 bond for the project that was the desert leg. When private business saw how great it was in cost and ridership, they would knock down Sacramento’s doors to fund the rest. Better chance in proving global warming hat private money to invest in this disaster. I voted “No” and now President Trump has voted “No” and you lied on the project scope. Send all the money back.
Even most of the progressives out here in CA think this train is a boondoggle.
Heh, Willie Green...
I think I had one of the last heated conversations with him about public transportation before he disappeared.
Thing is, I didn’t have a problem disagreeing with him, but IIRC, he had a problem disagreeing with me.
But it has been so long, I might have it backwards...:)
A billion here, a billion there...
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