Posted on 06/22/2025 6:44:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Money and Corruption
Are ruining the land
Crooked politicians
Betray the working man,
Pocketing the profits
And treating us like sheep,
And we’re tired of hearing promises
That we know they’ll never keep.
There is no reason there should be a federal tax collected in DC to send it back to any state. Why? To send it to DC to send it back to states—collect one dollar, send 10 cents back to the states while federal bureaucracy eats up 90 cents to administer it? This is madness.
This crap has to stop and the reason we are 37 trillion in the hole, in the hole to whom? To fiat money created out of thin air to the “fed,” which is not “federal” and not “reserve.”
“Why Can’t California Do Anything?” Simple: demonrats control the state.
Wake up, we are on the road to Bankruptcy and perdition.
Q: Why can’t CA do anything?
A: Because they want to do everything.
Sorry, this explanation is completely insufficient. Aren’t the lefties the ones who want the high speed rail? If you can’t even further your own desires that doesn’t make you a social justice warrior, it makes you an incompetent blob.
The author’s last name could be used for much fun about Kalifornia.
Soukup
I mean ABSOLUTELY no disrespect to this author. Disrespect to Kalifornia, well, that is the given.
The Kalifornia bureaucratic leviathan souks-up all of the $$$, energy, and possible entrepreneurs.
Kalifornia government really souks; they would screw up, well [ FILL-IN-THE-BLANK ]
Well, CA cannot manage forestation...
CA cannot manage rebuilding state-caused burnt-out homes...(Still no rebuilding of all those homes destroyed almost 4 years ago...)
CA cannot fight or control forest fires using its patented dry-spigot fire hydrant system...
CA cannot build a high-speed rail line across flat open terrain...
CA cannot prevent, or attempt to prevent, looting...
CA cannot keep its oceanfront beaches clean and free of homeless encampments...
CA cannot find Americans to run for the Mayor’s office, now occupied by an elected Cuban-trained spy...
That is a very important point. Hold that though for a minute.
Aren’t the lefties the ones who want the high-speed rail?
Well, that is what they say they want. But what the sharper ones really want is a way to grab some free money from a project grant where they can get away with doing as little as possible.
"Social Justice Warrior" is a nice camouflage outfit for people who are liars and thieves. That also attracts naive "true believers" who provide cover and concealment.
The "High-Speed Rail" program has spent billions of dollars without producing a foot of track. The program has been totally successful at its' real objective, which was to put money into the pockets of cronies who bribed the right legislators.
You can apply the "Noble Cause" strategy with any program that gets grant money and have the same outcome. Government is riddled with infestations of such programs, particularly in Democrat-controlled States.
That is why California can't do anything.
“Why Can’t California Do Anything?”
Because RR is no longer Governator?
[Do I win a prize?]
Duffy should have rescinded that boondoggle funding on Day One.
"According to a department report, the federal government had released more than $7 billion to California for the project over the last several years, and it had, unsurprisingly, spent all of the money, yet somehow managed not to lay even a single foot of track."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The federal funding for California train is not only unconstitutional but unconstitutionally unaccountable, a consequence of 16th Amendment (16A; direct taxes)-facilitated organized crime imo.
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."
Theoretically speaking, if President James Madison had been sitting in the Oval Office when the bill that provided funding for the California train was put on the desk, he would probably have asked his secretary to make a copy of his veto explanation of the Bonus Bill of 1817, make appropriate changes to it regarding the train, returning the bill and its veto explanation to the House.
Note that regardless Madison had agreed in his veto explanation that the roads and canals that the bill provided existing tax revenues for would support both the Common Defense and General Welfare (GWC) Clause 1 of Article I, Section 8 , the problem was that Congress had wrongly based the bill entirely on GWC.
More specifically, Madison had noted that while GWC gave Congress certain powers, he also clarified that the remaining clauses in Section 8 were limits on the powers of Clause 1. Madison even noted that the Bonus Bill did not pass the wild card "Necessary and Proper" Clause test.
"The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers, or that it falls by any just interpretation within the power to make laws necessary and proper [emphasis added] for carrying into execution those or other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States." —President James Madison, March 3, 1817: Veto Message on the Internal Improvements Bill
Regarding the idea that the unconstitutional federal funding for train has mysteriously vanished into thin air (my words), state and federal lawmakers need to be primaried in 2026 midterm elections for not upholding their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution's guarantee of federal spending accountability.
(Again) "Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."
The new state and federal candidates that we primary the incumbent crooks with need to promise to support PDJT47 in leading the states to repeal 16A and the 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators.
The 16th Amendment is not only the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime imo, but has also weakened our 4th Amendment protections imo.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
Ideally, PDJT will be able to say in his last two years that he "Madisoned" all Section 8 noncompliant spending bills.
Nobody!
I think the author forgot the word ‘Right’ at the end of his query.
California does plenty. None of it good.
So...W Wilson’s style of liberalism seeped all thru the fed gov & Dem state gov’ts.
Not so much. At that point we had social welfare and civil rights bureaucracies, but it would take decades before a transportation secretary would see his main task as fighting racist roads and bridges. I'd put the change at a later date, sometime between the 1990s and the 2010s. The old white engineers had to retire first.
Because Californians.
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What “liberalism” has brought to California.
Putting greedy numbskulls in office will always fail. The situation in California has been a long time in the making.
California isn’t an American state Mexico owns it no border.
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