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2019-02-14 Home Front: Politix
POTUS Demands Gavin Newsom Return $3.5 Billion for Canceled Bullet Train; Newsom: It's ‘California's Money' Now
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-14 00:45|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 But AOC sez no more airplanes, everyone are going to ride trains, Gavin!
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-02-14 02:32||   2019-02-14 02:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Send somebody to break Newsom's kneecaps.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-14 05:11||   2019-02-14 05:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Not to worry - Trump will get that money back one way or another.
Posted by Raj 2019-02-14 08:24||   2019-02-14 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 he said the almighty word "offensive". I believe they really think if they say something is offensive they automatically get their way.
Posted by chris 2019-02-14 09:42||   2019-02-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 @ grom: i will volunteer for kneecap duty
Posted by chris 2019-02-14 09:42||   2019-02-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 The project may be a disaster but California has met the requirements that were part of the grant of $3.5B as long as they eventually have a usable section operating.

However, in a sense the $3.5B was a good investment because it resulted in a demo of the problems with this technology.
Posted by lord garth 2019-02-14 11:18||   2019-02-14 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Cut out 3.5 billion for this year's federal money for CA.

Easy enough.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-14 11:23||   2019-02-14 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Money is fungible, next time the Feds send money to California they send a paid as part of the bullet train bill note instead.

I don't think California has the money to give back. Hopefully this is the start of tightening their belt and addressing the problem, even if they blame Trump every step of the way.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-02-14 11:27||   2019-02-14 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 The train to nowhere and the $$$ billions that went with it. What a waste.
Posted by warthogswife 2019-02-14 11:48||   2019-02-14 11:48|| Front Page Top

#10 sell Atherton
Posted by 746 2019-02-14 12:09||   2019-02-14 12:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Money's already been given to Brown's cronies. It pains me to think how that much money could have been used to repair Interstate 5 and other bits of crumbling California infrastructure.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-14 12:10||   2019-02-14 12:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile, Meanwhile, private railroad Florida East Coast Railway and investment money is getting started on Brightline and construction is due to start soon on the privately-financed Dallas-Houston Texas Central railroad using Japanese technology and some foreign investments (I think). I was offered a chance to come out of retirement to work on the Texas Central, but passed.

The California boondoggle had no real plan to get to population centers without massive Federal money from Barry and Hilly.
Posted by Bobby 2019-02-14 12:23||   2019-02-14 12:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway?
Posted by newc 2019-02-14 14:38||   2019-02-14 14:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway?

Probably they got that money while Obama was still in office.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-14 18:34||   2019-02-14 18:34|| Front Page Top

#15 High speed rail is actually a wonderful thing - I love it and it's a great way to travel here (China). So, every time I read about California's ongoing screw ups, I always wonder why all the geniuses there can't do a few hundred miles but the Chinese have done thousands and thousands of miles. High speed rail is not the problem. It's an ID10T problem in California.
Posted by Beau 2019-02-14 21:01||   2019-02-14 21:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Agree. The Chinese manage to build a high speed train between Beijing and Hong Kong.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-02-14 21:40||   2019-02-14 21:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Feinstein 's husband has a piece of the action. What does that tell you.
Posted by crazyhorse 2019-02-14 21:59||   2019-02-14 21:59|| Front Page Top

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