Posted on 06/14/2019 3:32:00 PM PDT by ETL
Farmers up and down California’s Central Valley are up in arms over the state seizing their land to build its long-awaited high-speed railway and then failing to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed them for years.
Thanks to an order of possession by the Superior Court, California can take private land through eminent domain for the troubled bullet train project.
While landowners are expected to eventually be reimbursed for the property – and for expenses like lost farming production, irrigation replacement projects and road construction – many farmers in California’s agricultural heartland say state officials have offered them a myriad of excuses as to why they haven’t yet doled out the cash.
“I am out a quarter-million bucks on infrastructure, and they haven’t paid a dime for a year,” John Diepersloot, a fruit farmer who cleared a large parcel of his peach orchard to make way for the train, told The Los Angeles Times.
“I don’t have that kind of money.”
What’s even more frustrating for California’s farmers are the constantly changing plans for the train, the multiple delays in construction, the seemingly skeleton-staffed California High-Speed Rail Authority and the difficulty in getting concrete answers.
“The property owners are very frustrated that the high-speed rail authority don’t seem to know what they actually need,” said Mark Wasser, a Sacramento-based attorney representing more than 70 farmers and businesses affected by the project.
“We have farmers who the authority has come back four times to change where they want to take.”
Rail authority officials acknowledge they have not yet paid numerous landowners, but so far have not given a reason for the delay.
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When this project was first proposed I called it a giant land-grab theft scheme through eminent domain.
Just run it above the meridians on Highway 5-or is it 99?
George P. Bush on a larger scale.
“Mongo only pawn in game of life”
SUCKERS!!
“( I like adjectives and do not use adjectival prepositional phrases)”
Like “People of No Color”, such as Grab’em Newsom?
Don’t hold your breath.
Trump administration pulls $1 billion in California high-speed rail money in May, wish he would pay the farmers directly with that money....
they can have their land back.
Willie Green, where are you?
How did that meteor know to hit that hole?
Wo Fat would probably be a more sensible governor.
The farmers should be able to walk into these CA bureaucrats' offices and shoot them in their lying greedy faces.
California has a surprise $21.5 billion "budget surplus" in 2019.
"Gov. Gavin Newsom is in an enviable position: a record surplus of $21.5 billion in his first proposed budget.
In other news, I personally used California's "One Weird Trick" to arrive at a "budget surplus" in my own finances.
I just don't pay my bills any more, and threaten people who try to collect with armed gunmen from California's law enforcement community.
This has worked so far.
I actually saw liberals on Yahoo bragging about California’s billions of surplus dollars.
So, one wonders why these farmers aren’t getting paid?
I’m sure it’s not because liberals are lying or anything.
150 megaton weapon, 2000 meter air burst, just to make sure you get them all.
Overpressure should flatten everything within about a 32.6 kilometer radius, and heat pulse should fry everything in about a 6.1 kilometer radius of ground zero.
Estimated casualties (KIA) from blast would be about 1.2 million, casualties from overpressure damage would be about another 1.3 million fatalities.
Yes; I have thought about this a lot.
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