What fresh hell is this?
Stupid all around. Light rail=failure in the works. I guess it’s eternal inherited guilt.
Wouldn't that be the whole dem party?
Three cheers for pointless feel-good bureaucratic red tape.
I still would like to see high speed rail in India...cars packed inside, 900 people on the roofs and hanging off the sides, while traveling at 100+ mph.
As if this idiot pol boycotts all companies that were involved in WW2 Germany in any way...
For example, Bayer (which for a while was part of IG Farben, maker of Zyklon B). Does the pol boycott all of these Bayer products? He never took an aspirin?
http://www.bayer.com/en/Products-from-A-to-Z.aspx
How about boycotting companies that worked for Stalin?
But the financing from banks that made money from slavery is OK ? Good luck finding a bank that didn’t.
Idiots.
And what about US rail companies who had less than perfect relations with US Indians?
Or US Indian tribes who had less than perfect relations with each other?
Or the Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Cambodians, Russians, Elbonians, the possibilities for paralyzing political correctness is endless!
Maybe there is a Canadian company trying to bid. I can’t think of too many Canadian atrocities (but I bet other FReepers will!)
Well, the whole industrialized world traded with Germany before the war, the USA in particular. So we need aliens (of extraterrestrial type, not of Mexican one) to do it, since nobody on this planet qualifies for the job - even though the crime in question happened 65+ years ago, with hardly any participants of it still living.
Another option, of course, is to ask for help from non-industrialized countries, those that haven't known about World War II because they had no radio or newspapers. Perhaps a few of those could be found somewhere in Africa. They, politically, will be excellent candidates. On the other hand, if you want the trains to actually run you might need help of Germany ... which doesn't qualify.
However in a sane world California would simply say that it's unfair to punish grandchildren of people who were involved in war crimes. It's not like modern companies, governments and young people have anything to do with those events.
Because it’s great to retaliate against companies that 60 years ago may have done something in another country that we now find bad. After all, now that 4 generations of management and stockholders have come and gone, it’s best to start a trade war...
It works the same with speeding. It isn't worth the time loss driving 10mph over the limit in town if you get a ticket, but if you are going 1000 miles, you can get there two hours sooner...not that that is always a good idea.
***Train companies and foreign governments that helped support the Holocaust could be barred from working on the California high-speed railroad under a new bill in the Legislature. ***
Good God Amighty! Next they will be looking for ties to the days of slavery! Oh wait!
High speed rail and Muslims don’t mix. No thank you.
I would rather see High Speed Stage Coach services. This is something that needs Billions spent on cause you build it and they will come.
Pray for America
I am genuinely surprised that California is home to only 30 Holocaust survivors. There are more than that in a 10 block radius of where I am sitting right now in Melbourne, Australia.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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A rather stupid idea, even for California.
It’s been 65 years. No one running these companies for years were involved. I care much more about European companies aiding the Iranians.