On 2026-04-28 1:33 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Things that happened faster than California's high-speed rail project (390 miles/32 years):
--China's entire high speed rail system (30,000 miles) took 15 years from breaking ground to passengers riding trains
--The entire city of Dubai went from barren desert to gleaming metropolis in 30 years
--Timothy Chalamet's entire life (30 years)
--iPhone 1 through iPhone 17 (18 years)
--The Internet (32 years)
For what Newsom is spending on this ridiculous train to nowhere, he could:
--Pay for 200 L.A.-to-San Francisco limousine rides for every person in California.
--Give a replica of his $9 million Marin County mansion to every homeless vagrant on Skid Row. Twice.
--Give an average one-bedroom house to one million people.
--Pay for Spain's entire high speed rail system. And Germany's. And France's. Combined.
--Give every Californian 18 round-trip flights from L.A. to San Francisco.
--Give $10,000 cash to every California household.
For all that money and time, we don't have even one inch of train track to show for it and the Democrats in Sacramento just voted to spend another massive pile of money on it.
I'm confused: your first line describes Cali's project as taking 32
years (so far) and building 390 miles. In the last paragraph, you say
not one inch of track has been built. I'm guessing that 390 miles is
what they've *targeted* to build but that they haven't actually built
any of that yet.
That quibble aside, that's a great way to present how wasteful this
project has been. It's incredible that the taxpayers haven't shown up at
the legislature with pitchforks and torches, ready to hang their
legislators after all this expenditure with so little to show for it.
At the very least, there needs to be an independent public inquiry to
look into this and hold the people who organized it - and pissed/misappropriated - all that money away, followed by long jail
terms for the miscreants and legal action to recover what can be
recovered of the money. I don't know who could sit on an independent
inquiry because it sounds like everyone in politics in Cali is a
Democrat and it seems unlikely they'd go after their own but maybe
people from some other state can do it....
I truly don't understand how voters can choose these same clowns again
and again and again. Do they LIKE the highest taxes in the country and
the lowest education scores, massive numbers of homeless and all the
other miseries they have to endure under these clowns?
Even if they can't bring themselves to vote Republican, why can't they
try other parties?
Britain has had two parties, Labour and the Tories, alternating in power
for a century and BOTH of those parties are going to take very deep hits
in the next national election (and very likely in the local elections on
May 7) and probably be replaced by the new Reform Party so it IS
possible for things to change.
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