State high-speed rail vows to show real job figures

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 12/22/11 | Mike Rosenberg

[SmithL]

Backing off claims that the bullet train would create more than 1 million jobs, California's high-speed rail leaders acknowledged on Thursday that their "shorthanded" definition used to describe jobs has been "imprecise and potentially confusing."

In a statement responding to an investigation by this newspaper, the California High-Speed Rail Authority clarified that the 1 million job figure does not refer to the number of workers. . . .

[WOBBLY BOB]

In a statement responding to an investigation by this newspaper, Willie Green clarified that the 1 billion job figure does not refer to the number of workers...

[umgud]

the California High-Speed Rail Authority clarified that the 1 million job figure does not refer to the number of workers. . . .

Yeah, that really clarified it..........

[386wt]

It’s actually the number of riders per century.

[combat_boots]

Clarify as in clarified butter? Cooking the fuzz off?

[TexasKamaAina]

Michael Rossi, Gov. Jerry Brown's jobs czar, said in the statement. "It is clear to Californians that something must be done to keep our state moving over the next generation."

Well, there's a lot moving to Texas.

[386wt]

...Jerry Brown's jobs czar, said in the statement. "It is clear to Californians that something must be done to keep our state moving over the next generation."

Does that mean the next generation will be under the new high speed train? As in thrown? Like the proverbial bus?

LOL

[Bob]

I'd have to think that, if enough people wanted to travel quickly between SF and LA, some airline would be offering flights between the two cities. </sarcasm>

[BobP]

[Seaplaner]

the California High-Speed Rail Authority clarified that the 1 million jobs figure does not refer to the number of workers. Instead, as the newspaper reported, it refers to an economic term known as "job-years" in which, for example, one person working 10 years equals 10 job-years.

Clarified? No, LIED.

And, one suspects that it's one of the worst kinds of lies, the ones that are made up as the result of several committee meetings (to come up with the most believable lie), then run by legal, (to make sure that the creators of this lie are sufficiently insulated).

"job-years"? I recall no mention of "job-years" when the original "one million jobs" lie was lied, and the cover up lie is a true test of the gullibility of California inhabitants (some of whom are citizens).

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[goldstategop]

Yup. It won’t actually create large numbers of new jobs. Even if it lasts decades, when the work is done, the on-going economic benefit will be a negligible one.

[Loyal Sedition]

“High Speed Rail”, now we know what the final nail in Kalifornia’s coffin looks like!

The cost of this boondoggle will finish them off.
Would not be such an issue, but the rest of us will be tapped to bail them out.

Kalifornia, the next “Too big to fail”.

[Vaduz]

California’s high-speed rail + Earthquake =Death

Ca has never been short of scams.