CA House leader slams brakes on federal funding for high-speed rail. It would appear Jerry Brown’s going to have to put his engineers overalls and cap away.
This post was last modified on January 31, 2021
CA House leader slams brakes on federal funding for high-speed rail. It would appear Jerry Brown’s going to have to put his engineers overalls and cap away.
This post was last modified on January 31, 2021
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Brown's choo-choo will never be built. Oh they will spend all of the money not more than ten miles will be built. all of the material will be scavenged and democrat donors will steal all of the money in studies and reports.
The new bridge to nowhere.
I worked on a project like that once. Bridge to nowhere. Environmentalists managed to stop the development it was leading to for quite a few years.
The trains first leg is Fresno to Madera.....Two destinations most people could care less about.....But they have already started taking farmland which is funny because Democraps are soooo environmentally friendly. But in this case their evironazi impact statement was short and rushed...amazing what you can do when you ram this shit through. Now had the evil Koch brothers wanted to build thins thing, our Azz Clown Governor Jerry Brown would have people laying on the right of way to protest, Illegals, the LGBT crowd, Nuns, who knows? But it would never be built. The only thing you need to realize is that this is a GIGANTIC WASTE of money to give our stupid fucking governor a legacy. His daddy, Pat Brown had one for building roads and other stuff, Now all Jerry can think about is how he will be remembered and he wants his Choo, Choo. The whole thing is dumber than the set up in Blazing saddles and not nearly as funny....(Mongo) "it has to do with where Choo Choo go"..........I think of that every time this crap comes up. I hope the Fed does cut off the funding..and the train derails now before more money gets wasted..
The democraps are living life like kings with all this pork. No wonder these rat bastards never want to leave congress. Hell, I wouldn't either. And that don't count all the under the table free gifts like family vacations to Europe or the Far East. Discounts on anything you can think of. They are multimillionaires when they leave congress. And they sit on thier fat asses, eat lobster and use everyday to think of ways to sabotage and fuck over the Republicans. This kind of garbage gets my blood pressure going.
a mere drop in the proverbial waste spending of government! nothing will slow these greedy SOB's down, they want the power, influence, a station or airport named after them! they should be in jail!
PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS
A List of Republican Budget Cuts
Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list..
These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.
Read to the end.
* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
* Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon , eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
*Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings..
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings..
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
*Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.
* U.S.Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
*Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.
* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
*Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.
*Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
*Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings. WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.
*Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings..
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
*TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?!
Maybe this is why the Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan.
As long as Reid's precious cowboy poetry keeps on going all is well.
As Nanzi Pelousy said, "There is just nothing to cut in the budget."
The only reason I can think of for Reid's fascination with cowboy poetry, is that he wishes he was in Brokeback Mountain.
Whose going to build it? The wetbacks? Then they can called it The Bullet of Death.
As long as Democrats control the Department of Transportation, federal tax dollars will continue their high speed journey to California to fund Gov. Moonbeam's Dream.