[LIConFem]

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[Vaquero]

[Flick Lives]

“They shouldn’t have run this through the breadbasket of the state,” Wasser said, echoing a sentiment of the rail system’s critics that the state should have aligned the route adjacent to Interstate 5 and not through the nation’s richest agricultural belt.

au contraire. The State ran it thru rural areas so the politically connected could buy up land along the planed right-of-way. You can bet those politically connected got paid for their insider land flip deals.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

Their ability was to fork over huge tracts of their their rich, valuable farm land and spend millions of their own money rearranging their farm operations to accommodate the choo-choo.

[sphinx]

When the rail authority wanted a strip of his land for a temporary construction easement, an agent suggested that Tos transfer his mature walnut trees to pots for five years and then put them back in the ground. “They don’t know what a walnut tree is,” Tos said.

It would be interesting to know who this particular state employee is, how he was hired, and what his educational background might be. There are a lot of good people in state and federal agencies, people who know their field and have enough dirt under their fingernails to know what is involved in a project. A state DOT/highways guy, for example, has probably been building roads most of his life and knows a good deal about moving dirt. But … it's not uncommon to find transportation planners who are oblivious to the damage done by driving their projects through the heart of attractive, livable neighborhoods, or state and county highway guys who try to build roads through the heart of a Civil War battlefield or other historic resource. In this case, the state guy sounds like an urbanite who thinks farms are on the backside of the moon and wouldn't know a tree if it fell on him.

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[bray]

Communists love their Choo Choos.

[griswold3]

Democratic socialism restricts the accumulation of private property

As Obama said, (4/29/10), “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”

[Dahoser]

I think we can see how this is going to go: the California leftists are going to tell the farmers they would be paid were it not for the Trump administration halting payments. Therefore Orange Man bad, not them.

[Darteaus94025]

Hey, they’re mostly White and Republican, so no big deal.

[Category Four]

If California's looking to waste money on so hopeless a boondoggle as this, they can at least have some fun by calling in an expert on all subjects involved. (He's clickable, too!)

[Track9]

They are doing business with a criminal enterprise. I would expect it to get worse.

[Vaduz]

How else can Ca give free land to the illegals.

[bgill]

Californians never met a tax they didn’t like. Land should be given freely as well.

[HighSierra5]

The engineers whined about how they didn’t realize that they’d have to run their choo choo through the Grapevine. I’m not kidding. They should be executed for being that disingenuous.

[a fool in paradise]

Fascism. Confiscation of private property to benefit private companies partnered with the L4ftist government.

[NorthMountain]

Every democRAT is a violent totalitarian thug. It’s not “your” land, peasant! You must surrender it for the collective!

[SkyDancer]

And won’t and CA will blame Trump for withholding the funds. Trump’s fault.

[qaz123]

I don’t know about anyone else, but I see this as an absolutely Golden Opportunity for the President of the United States.

Send someone from the Interior Department and DOJ to visit everyone of these people. With the $1billion that he is keeping from California, for the train to nowhere, pay the bill and then investigate why they haven’t got paid yet.

Newsome will have plenty of egg on his face, he’ll have to explain why they haven’t been paid and try to blame it all on Brown. Then go through all the land deals that took place where political favorites and donors were able to make money off the debacle and start investigating them.

[dfwgator]

Bart : Mongo, why would Hedley Lamarr care about where the choo-choo goes?
Mongo : Don’t know. Mongo only pawn in Game of Life.