- - 100 billion (pre-temporary-downward revision for election season)
- - Out-of-state prime (GE)
- - Off-shore designers (china)
- - Not needed (or wanted), who in his or her right mind would pay $100s to travel between the thriving metropolises of Merced to Bakersfield in twice the time (considering parking, ticketing, security, baggage handling a-la-airlines, and of course, the train will ALWAYS BE LATE, ALWAYS, ALWAYS!
- - The first leg, Merced to Bakersfield is scheduled for 2017, hah, it's 2020 or later. Unions = construction delays, ALWAYS.
- - What the Keynesians fail to realize is that taking 100 B from the productive sector of the California economy is so toxic to the economic climate, that it could be extraordinarily difficult to recover.
- - Net employment will be much less, businesses and taxpayers will out-migrate, and financial chaos is a possibility.
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Yep - Merced to Bakersfield, approximately 165 miles (per Mapquest). About a two and a half hour drive.
Plus the train line ends in Sacramento so the communist Gov’t drones can hop on their communist trains to go home or to Disneyland.