All aboard for Bakersfield! California pours $7.9 billion into bullet train bottomless pit. The state whose budget deficit “unexpectedly” swelled from $9.2 billion to $16 billion earlier this year is now going to spend the first $7.9 billion “on a high speed rail line connecting…Madera and Bakersfield.” Unlike Russian Roulette, California Roulette is played with a single bullet train.
Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities
After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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