Posted on 02/14/2014 10:18:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
Newsom was asked about the $68 billion plan during an appearance on the Ben Shapiro Show on Seattle’s KTTH radio.
He says he supports taking $9 billion in voter-approved bonds from the rail project and redirecting it to “other, more pressing infrastructure needs.” He also says he’s one of only a few Democrats willing to speak publicly against it.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Rat deserts speeding train?
bump
They should cancel the boondoggle
Willie Green Memorial Ping.
heh
Walk around and ask a thousand residents of LA...if they have some urgent need to get to San Jose in thirty minutes. I’m guessing that fifty percent will admit they’ve only been to San Jose once in their life, and another forty-eight percent will admit that it’d be nice but when you quote the price of $170 round-trip....per person....well, it’s not worth that.
It’ll destroy political trust for decades....if they build this and six months after opening....there’s less than twenty people every six hours....who ride the bullet train.
“A startling display of disdain for both the voters and for the initiative process.”
Yeah, Newsom is from the “Barky Obama School of Law Observance! Unless there’s some intervening “change” in our laws regarding the use funds approved through the initiative process, ole Any Twosome Newsom may find “redirection” tough to accomplish. Particularly since there’s already a Federal Judge who’s tied up the Train to Nowhere Project’s financing because the State hasn’t provided the necessary “spending plan.”
Do they know the way to San Jose?
“It’ll destroy political trust for decades....if they build this and six months after opening....there’s less than twenty people every six hours....who ride the bullet train.”
Based on the initial plan for service from Bakersfield to Fresno, the only people who would want (or need) to ride the thing would be the illegal Mexican farmworkers. But even then, since it wouldn’t be stopping, they would probably find it both unusable as well as unaffordable. Brown is simply looking for a “legacy” to leave with his political “career,” and that legacy looks like a mountain of debt for a white elephant railroad.
Oh come on, you know there'll be more people riding. /s
They'll give subsidies to illegals and select people to ride it (and our taxes will cover them). Just like every other public transit boondoggle, taxes will cover the majority of operating costs. Those $170 tickets won't cost that much for a bunch of riders. For you and me, the real actual costs will be much higher!
He put the bullet in the bullet train.
It’s NOT a bullet train, it moves are regular speed. From one un-populated area to another. Idiot people voted for this boodogle and support the idiot governor.
68 BILLION!!!!
Are you F’ing kidding me?
68 BILLION?
The Boondoggle known as the Big Dig here in Boston ONLY cost us 16 BILLION PLUS, 400% over budget and THAT only took 15 years and now looks like complete crap as well as being an engineering DISASTER.
68 BILLION???
Are these fruits and nuts COMPLETELY out of their minds?
Why not buy the welfare trolls a Rolls Royce each instead and save 65 BILLION?
God, I am sorry but I really truly HATE the left.
We need that giant earthquake YESTERDAY!
Of course, he wants to spend the 9 billion on other projects.
California could consider just not borrowing the money. Or is that too stupid?
Gavin has hopes of higher office. Even he can’t swallow the kool aid
Gavin is takin’ a page from the Charles Durning Playbook ...
From “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas” - a CLASSIC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl8ajhu_e5Y
How much does a brand new Aircraft Carrier cost?
How much for a brand new Trident Sub?
Stopped the F-22 and B-2 programs over a few billion but allow THIS?
A frigging 68 BILLION dollar TRAIN??
W the frigging F?
also Newson has something like 40 companies that he has a stake in.
High speed rail AKA government free money scam
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.