Posted on 06/22/2005 10:31:07 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
BTW, I added Florida to the topics because St. Petersburg just approved a new very expensive monorail plan, despite the objections of their own transportation planners.
Don't tell Willie Green.
It can't be!
And this figure doesn't even include the cost of the big metal "M" that an engineer will have to use as an anchor after the brakes fail.
I've got bad news, that has nothing to do with Geico...
Oh heck, it's only money. The liberals will get it from the greedy and the rich and the voters in Seattle will love it. They'll love it so much the same liberal dimocraps will be back in office next term.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
And in NYC the antis went banana over less than $1 billion for the West Side Stadium which is now dead.
Boondoggle ping!
Now does that get financed by the 9.5 cent gasoline tax increase passed earlier this year by the fraudulent demoncRAT gov (Fraudoire) and demoncRAT-controlled legislature or does that get paid by the $3.8 billion tax increase to the general fund again passed by the infamous demoncRATS earlier this year after gutting people's initiative 601 requiring a supermajority (60%) to pass any new tax increases?
Congress approved construction of the project was US $ 2.5 billion. Final costs: US $ 14.6 billions
I am shocked.......(yawn)......liberal Seattle gets screwed by their own politicians.........
Now I got that Simpsons song in my head.
Hey! It's my job to poke Willie in the ribs over failed and/or expensive rail transportation!
They must have consulted the Masachusetts Big Dig pooh-bas
St.Pete is still bedazzled by the socialist twaddle from the St. Pete Times. That rag is owned by the Poynter Institute which is as far left as the NY Times.
Let such areas go broke. Then the governmet assets can be sold off and small government actualized when big government goes broke.
If bonds are to be defaulted on, then the taxing authority will have to raise taxes. Eventually, the socialists who voted for these projects will have to sell their homes for whatever they can get when the tax burden becomes too high.
Isn't that just wonderful! The free market has built in mechanisms to punish socialists. :-)
Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail! What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!
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