This is so maddening! BILLIONS of dollars spent on something nobody wanted or needed. Another crazy Dem-centric boondoggle. Jerry Brown, shame on you! The original funding we voted on was for $6B, which all the Pols knew would not fund more than a few miles of track, yet they put this forward to the people of California as a solution to go from SF to LA! They KNEW we would have to vote again on MORE money for this hopeless project. Never Forget! Maybe we should change the state motto to NEVER FORGET THE BULLET TRAIN!
This is also indicative of how voting is manipulated with misinforming ads and misleading naming/descriptions of the propositions. Throw in low-information voters or people who will vote down their party line and you get this kind of stupidity. It's stunning to me how much our tax dollars are completely wasted or siphoned to special interests. Just as an example, we're due to vote on the 'gaming' propositions this November - one of them is touted to bring money back to the state - remember back in the 80s when voters passed the lottery propositions that would funnel SO MUCH MONEY into schools? How's that working out? I've got two separate 'forever' assessments for the school district in my county and they continue to say they have no money....I also wonder if those billions of dollars going to this train would've been much better spent setting up some reservoirs to hold some water for the future???? Sadly, I could go on and on and on and on....and voters will vote in all the same people (except maybe the Controller ??? - VOTE LAHNEE CHEN!!) and keep paying these taxes.....
This is so maddening! BILLIONS of dollars spent on something nobody wanted or needed. Another crazy Dem-centric boondoggle. Jerry Brown, shame on you! The original funding we voted on was for $6B, which all the Pols knew would not fund more than a few miles of track, yet they put this forward to the people of California as a solution to go from SF to LA! They KNEW we would have to vote again on MORE money for this hopeless project. Never Forget! Maybe we should change the state motto to NEVER FORGET THE BULLET TRAIN!
This is also indicative of how voting is manipulated with misinforming ads and misleading naming/descriptions of the propositions. Throw in low-information voters or people who will vote down their party line and you get this kind of stupidity. It's stunning to me how much our tax dollars are completely wasted or siphoned to special interests. Just as an example, we're due to vote on the 'gaming' propositions this November - one of them is touted to bring money back to the state - remember back in the 80s when voters passed the lottery propositions that would funnel SO MUCH MONEY into schools? How's that working out? I've got two separate 'forever' assessments for the school district in my county and they continue to say they have no money....I also wonder if those billions of dollars going to this train would've been much better spent setting up some reservoirs to hold some water for the future???? Sadly, I could go on and on and on and on....and voters will vote in all the same people (except maybe the Controller ??? - VOTE LAHNEE CHEN!!) and keep paying these taxes.....
If the politicians would have stayed out of it, high-speed rail would be running today, right down the middle of the I-5.