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Calif. is abandoning statewide high-speed rail;Gov.Newsom vows to keep $3.5B in federal funds
twitchy.com ^ | Posted at 2:40 pm on February 12, 2019 | by Greg P.

Posted on 02/12/2019 1:35:51 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

What a little crook!


21 posted on 02/12/2019 1:57:01 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Red Badger

I seem to recall something in the news recently about a Green New Deal expanding high speed rail to get rid of unnecessary air travel...something that AOC girl was positing as saving the country...wonder what happened to that?


22 posted on 02/12/2019 1:57:15 PM PST by Lakewood
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To: Red Badger

I think all federal grants in CA should be cancelled and the savings added up until it reaches the $3.5B CA just stole from us. I want interest too, actually.


23 posted on 02/12/2019 1:57:53 PM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: VanDeKoik

“Little?” He has only started.


24 posted on 02/12/2019 2:00:24 PM PST by Fungi
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To: VanDeKoik

Little?

3.5 Billion would be a historical theft!....................


25 posted on 02/12/2019 2:02:03 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Lakewood

Sooner or later reality must exert itself..................


26 posted on 02/12/2019 2:02:57 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Bait and Switch!


27 posted on 02/12/2019 2:03:12 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Moonman62

Well, you see, California spent “only” the federal dollars so far! The rest of the money is “all” state and local money so, obviously, none of the remaining dollars needs to be given back.


28 posted on 02/12/2019 2:05:57 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Red Badger

In terms of the government as a whole, he’s a baby thief with those rookie numbers.


29 posted on 02/12/2019 2:42:48 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

Good start for a rookie................


30 posted on 02/12/2019 2:46:00 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Wall money!


31 posted on 02/12/2019 2:53:21 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: blueunicorn6
Now we get down to the heart of the matter.
Balance the state budget with stolen federal money.

Standard operating procedure for democrat leaders. Always shifting money from one bucket to another. In San Francisco, they got billions of fed dollars for building the TransBay Terminal supposedly for housing the high-speed trains. The money for the train platform was shifted away for buses, parks and other pet projects. Now there's no money for the high-speed train platform and tunnel from existing trains, and the train platform is an empty hole in the ground while the city searches for more federal billions to complete it. They were shifting money around all over the place.

My guess is Newsom will be shifting some money out of the $3.5B to his friends in SF for political favors.

32 posted on 02/12/2019 2:56:49 PM PST by roadcat
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Yep the $$ spent so far has been Prop. 1A money ($9 billion) and the Feds “stimulus” $3.5 billion...Gavin plans to build out a small segment of roadbed (Amtrak will probably use it to bypass freight trains) so he doesn’t have to pay the Feds back. Or it could be the most expensive bike path ever!!


33 posted on 02/12/2019 3:02:35 PM PST by Drago
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To: Red Badger

get it back and build the wall, this high speed rail is like global warming its a scam to get fed funds to support illegals and social programs


34 posted on 02/12/2019 3:10:06 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Red Badger

Newsome, don’t steal the money that the taxpayers were forced to give up. Give it back...


35 posted on 02/12/2019 3:10:39 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Red Badger
And he plans on keeping the $3.5 billion grant given to the state during the Obama administration:

Outright theft!

36 posted on 02/12/2019 3:18:24 PM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Red Badger

How many people want to travel from Bakersfield to Merced? LOL What a total waste of money.


37 posted on 02/12/2019 3:18:37 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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Exactly. Who in the hell wants high speed rail from Merced to Bakersfield? What a freakin' joke. If there is some huge unmet need for public transit between Merced and Bakersfield, it'd be a lot cheaper to run a bunch of buses up and down I-5 (hell, even electric buses if you wanna be ''green").

This is a transparent attempt by Gavin Newsom to pull the plug on this boondoggle BUT do so in a way that "saves face" with regard to the money already wasted AND not return the federal money.
38 posted on 02/12/2019 3:25:55 PM PST by irishjuggler
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It only takes 2 - 2 1/2 hours to drive from Merced to Bakersfield. What is high speed rail really going to save commuters?

What happens in Merced or Bakersfield? I mean either it is SF/Sacramento or LA.


39 posted on 02/12/2019 3:45:22 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: Red Badger

If he is supposed to return it..

Deduct it from any future payments.

If he is not required to return it.

Fire the idiot(s) in DC that made that deal.


40 posted on 02/12/2019 3:48:15 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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