Posted on 04/12/2012 3:00:55 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco (AP) -- The authority overseeing efforts to build a high-speed rail system in California approved its revised business plan on Thursday, sending the ambitious project to an uncertain fate in the Legislature.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority voted 6-0, with two members absent, to approve its latest plan. Two hours of public comment preceded the vote, most of it favorable toward the bullet train.
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Laundering billions through union labor, while building worthless projects.
Cali must have money growing on trees.
Maybe those “millionaires and billionaires” (i.e movie stars) can fund it with higher taxes on themselves.
Nothing better than a reminder of the good use my hard earned labor is put to while enjoying a glass of wine during happy hour.
In other news, a tire salesman, today, told me I needed new tires.
And with what electricity this train will run when coal plants are shut down?
Maybe they’ll get good old wind power to push the trains. A good breeze should do it.
Bullet pushed by wind sails... ha ha ha
Another train to nowhere. Welcome to Potemkin Californistan, an exercise in attracting gullible business and then ripping them off.
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