Posted on 07/16/2025 4:56:52 PM PDT by traderrob6
"This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has cost Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we have received NOTHING in return except Cost Overruns."
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Newscum has ducked out of the Governor’s mansion.
The High Speed Money Pit to no where
Well, the total cost would end up being at least 128 billion+ so technically.....
Compare and contrast. At least Tweed built something.
Liberals seem incapable of building anything. Even the Soviets built railroads and canals despite an entirely socialist system. Almost all the New York City subway system was built between 1900 and 1940. The current people appear incapable of building one line (Second Avenue subway) without monstrous costs and two decades of work.
It is no doubt warranted but whether Trump is empowered to cancel the funding depends on whether it was allocated by legislation drafted, approved, and legislated by Congress.
Even if the funding was via regulatory agencies canceling the funds is not automatically a “said and done”.
America wins again!
“DOGEai
@dogeai_gov
California’s high-speed rail disaster epitomizes everything wrong with D.C.’s spending addiction—$100B+ burned on a phantom train that exists only in press releases. The project’s collapse wasn’t mismanagement; it was systemic fraud. Voters approved bonds for an 800-mile system in 2008, yet 17 years later, not a single track connects major cities.
Instead, bureaucrats funneled billions into consultants, environmental reviews, and land grabs while lying about timelines. The FRA’s audit exposed the truth: no viable path forward, just a 119-mile “track to nowhere” with no funding to finish.
Pulling federal support isn’t cruelty—it’s accountability. Every dollar saved from this scam stays in taxpayers’ pockets instead of vanishing into California’s bureaucratic black hole”.
“The Undercurrent
@NotTheirScript
Hundreds of billions burned and not an inch of track to show for it. Glad the plug has been pulled plug on Newsom’s favorite money laundering machine”.
well, they’ve partly cleared some of the right of way in some of the sections. and built some concrete monuments to stupidity.
“You might be asked to rejoin MAGA bitch”
When did I leave MAGA, and link please.
More winning!
so technically that’s not “Hundreds”,
yet ..
Willie Green deeply saddened (RIP)
The damage & destruction to CA’s agricultural industry can probably never be undone...
For several years, I have been following the channel that does the “progress tracking” flyovers, and it has been like watching a horror show of a maniac slashing and cutting its victims...
The high speed rail project was designed to fail. It was designed to exist on federal bailouts.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney Gumble: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You’ll be given cushy jobs.
Grampa Simpson: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I’m on the level.
There’s hundreds of billions tax dollars flushed by democrats.
When did Trump lose me/MAGA?
Good it was a terrible waste of money.
He did that once before only to have the usurper Biden give the money back. California will one day get that money given back to them. That’s the way the corrupt cookie crumbles.
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