Posted on 03/14/2024 5:30:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not another Fed dollar for this boondoggle to nowhere. Let the insolvent state borrow the money from their underfunded pension plan to build their fantasy choo choo.
Even $500 Billion is not too much to thumb their nose at Nazi Trump who hates this idea.
All rail projects are a waste of money. As the Wall Street Journal editorial used to say fixed rail is the 19th century’s answer to 20th/21st century transportation needs.
A proposition was passed in 2002 that to have all gas tax revenue devoted to the roads since less than half of it at that time was spent on road maintenance and improvements.
Despite this proposition passing there was this:
https://landline.media/california-governor-orders-fuel-tax-revenue-diversion-from-roads/
California is as lawless as it’s hopeless. I don’t recall any conservative or Republican group immediately taking this illegal executive order to court.
California is merrily on its way to being a 3rd/4th world waste land.
There is no intention of building it, only of milking the alleged project.
$100,000,000,000 MORE???
The USA went from zero to nuclear power dominant for only two billion (1945 dollars - 34 billion, 2022) with the Manhattan Project.
And from Einstein’s letter to Hiroshima drop it took only about 6 years.
Well yeah. Duh!
Why should he? The fraud is baked in deep in California. He doesn't have to do anything at all for them.
The story has been recounted here before. But in the early days of “California high speed rail,” the state hired a groupo of consultants from SNCF, the French national rail company to advise on the project as they have decades of experience in this field. The Frenchies quit after less than one year, saying that the Californian running the project were totally incompetent. Instead, they opted to work in a less dysfunctional place... MOROCCO... where they’ve helped complete a project in 7 years. After 14 years and many many billions down the toilet, CA doesn’t have crap.
I remember laughing at it and saying it would be a bloated boondoggle that would go nowhere before they even started it.
You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to see this one coming.
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