thanks to jerry brown and the leftists: the great california train wreck

barbwire ^ | 20 March, 2018 | Robert Knight

[MarvinStinson]

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[hal ogen]

Good luck to all FReepers and like souls. Cali is interesting to watch from afar.

[Mr. K]

The government spending rule of 10’s.

Any government project will cost 10 times as much as originally estimated.

Corrolary:

This also applies to revised estimates.

[dragnet2]

Let me just say from the outset that I still miss California.

That's why I'm staying. I have no desire to give up the best to settle for less.

I'll stay and continue to operate behind enemy lines. And FWIW, it's my opinion the leftist in CA have over played their hands with their anti-American lunatic policies. The worm is turning.☺

[RedStateRocker]

With open borders cheap labor express and gullible Republicans as much to blame as any democrat for the influx from the south, thank you very much. GWB is as much to blame as Brown, arguably Brown is the symptom.

Either the Trump Administration comes to our rescue here in occupied California or they are no better than the dingbats in Sacramento. And anyone suggesting that my family and I leave, F.O.A.D. along with their entire bloodline- *we* didn’t turn this state into a pseudo third world hellhole, the last three Republican presidents let the camel not only get its nose under the tent but mate and reproduce.

[northislander]

Old senile Marxist Jesuit

[CedarDave]

Not a blog; first published at the Washington Times:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/18/the-great-california-train-wreck/

[NRx]

I lived in Cali for ten years 2005-15. And despite its very real weirdness, I can also attest that it was fun. But I am not sorry to be have left. Like Detroit and Puerto Rico, and soon Illinois and New Jersey, the state is on a collision course with reality. I am not sure how much time they have left. But when it finally happens, things are going to get ugly.

[Dr. Pritchett]

“I and my family...”

“I was a news editor then at the LA Times...”

This is how a news editor writes?!?

[SaveFerris]

[ Which brings us to something entirely implausible — the state-of-the-art bullet train, now under construction. Somehow, we got along fine without a bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A maniacal pipe dream of Gov. Jerry Brown, its price tag was increased last week to $77.3 billion. The train’s projected opening date has been pushed back another four years, to 2033. ]

As the article says, this is considered an “investment” bt hot how long to recoup the cost?

Certainly there can be no graft, corruption, helping out old friends, etc. in involved in $77+ billion dollars.....

In other news, there's this amazing technological achievement called “the jet airplane” - of course, it burns fuel, so that's bad.

[EnglishOnly]

Yep, I too have live in S. Cal ...... my first visit was Spring of ‘71 to Winter ‘71. Yep, Inglewood. I had ‘62 Impala w/a 409. I enjoyed the good life. Later on, I returned to work multiple times for SoCaL-Edison, & PG&E Through the mid and
late ‘90’s , up to my last trip in Fall of ‘15.

Cali as I knew it and watch it, spiraled down and now?
I wouldn’t bother crossing into the State.
It’s Gone. It won’t return. Forever ruined. Liberals have
destroyed California. Sad but True. Before long, Cali will be just like Detroit is now. A Ruined Hell Hole.

If the Train ever runs ? It will be the Train of Broken Dreams.

Good Bye Cali. YOU could have had it all.

[Truthoverpower]

Marin County is the best
My town Fairfax is like Mayberry
But way more fun

[Old Grumpy]

"it's my opinion the leftist in CA have over played their hands with their anti-American lunatic policies. The worm is turning.☺" I truly hope you're right. It is sad to see what has happened, and continues to happen, to California.

[Fhios]

Nothing that a good DOJ audit/investigation wouldn’t solve. How much money you think was kicked back to California politicians?

No Federal dollars until and only if the there’s been an DOJ/SS investigation and audit from soup to nuts.

[SaveFerris]

[I had ‘62 Impala w/a 409.]

Nice. 2-door?

[Don Corleone]

Harbinger of the future America????

[goldstategop]

California did what Willie Green couldn’t do.

Sink the Bullet Train to nowhere.

A Taj Mahal white elephant monument to waste, inefficiency and gold-plated extravagance.

Talk about a boondoggle.

[goldstategop]

If they ever get it built.

$77 billion? You could rebuild CA’s freeways or upgrade its airports and still have plenty of money left over.

When you let government manage an important project it never gets done on budget and on time.

Certainly not by 2033.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent essay. Fun to read. I live in So Cal, surf in Ventura and attend church in Santa Barbara. Everything is lovely and fine until you realized that the problems are not simply due to selfishness, greed and sloth. The problems are demonic. Jerry Brown was assisted by Jim Jones who was demonic. Democrats are assisted by Planned Parenthood. 'Nuff said. The solution is to pray and to beg the Lord for His power to destroy all sin and wickedness. Of course, the Lord is buy doing His job which makes Him to busy to be involved with local politics. I pity the numerous people who ignore the Lord with a lack of caution and ignore budget numbers with a lack of solicitude. They will be in for a reckoning on judgement day. These are the things I think about while surfing with the dolphins at the base of the mountains in the big waves of Ventura.