High speed rail in California: the bullet train to oblivion

Back in 2008, despite the looming financial crisis, the morons in California voted for a $10 billion plan to build a high speed. Now President Obama wants to add even more money to the giant pile of stink that California is in the midst of creating.

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Back in 2008, despite the very real threat of bankruptcy hanging over their heads even then, the morons in California voted for a $10 billion plan to build a high speed rail system in the former Golden State.

Now President Obama wants to add even more money to the giant pile of stink that California is in the midst of creating.

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Did the Environmental Impact Report analyze the impact of the bullet train on the endangered California unicorn?

Fox News has the details:

“They don’t know where they’re going to build it, they don’t have a mile of right of way under possession, it is not shovel ready, it is not even engineer ready,” said Richard Tolmach, with the California High-Speed Rail Authority. “It is still a work in progress where the line might go. Right now it is not somewhere the feds should be putting their money.”

But the feds are putting money into the project. Already California has received about $3.8 billion, mostly in stimulus money. But as the high-speed rail project that is furthest along, it stands to bring home the lion’s share of any additional federal money.

Here’s where the real genius of California’s plan comes in. Does no one in this state have a brain?

The first leg of the project is slated for the middle of Central Valley — not between major cities, or congested freeway corridors like San Francisco and San Jose or Orange County and Los Angeles. The Central Valley site is between Borden — a point on the map where no one lives — and Corcoran, a town where half the residents will never board a train because they’re in prison…

Critics say the bullet train is a boondoggle and black hole of taxpayer dollars for decades to come. Advocates say it is a vital link in America’s transportation future, relieving congesting in the skies and on the freeways. They also say it will create thousands of jobs, helping justify the cost. But in California alone, with new estimates putting the cost at $65 billion, is it a luxury Congress feels America can afford.

Welcome to California’s bullet train. In the words of Rod Serling, “Next stop … the Twilight Zone.”

Source: Fox News

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