As the state continues to hemorrhage jobs and businesses, Jerry Brown is doubling down on the fiscal insanity.
[Update a few minutes later]
Politifact ad homs Bob Poole on the Florida project, and gets the numbers wrong. He responds at Reason.
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The Democrat infested FL newspapers have whipped up their readership for HSR as can be seen in the comments to any articles published. Posters whine about how the Governor cost the state jobs by refusing the “free” train.
Its Jerry Brown leading California into an ever more enormous future!
The Simpson’s monorail song is funny!
“I would like to be part of the group that gets America to think big again.”
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How much bigger than $14 trillion should we go Gov. Moonbeam?
how the Governor cost the state jobs by refusing the “free” train.
Yea free as in high speed beer.
It’s disappointing that Jerry is pro-HSR, considering he’s supposed to be a cheapskate. Still… if the choice was an anti-HSR but pro-Community Redevelopment Agency governor, or what we got, I’ll take what we got.
That is to say, the CRAs were/are an even more criminal money sink than HSR.
Curious as to what his water bill/bond will look like. Unlike the train, that’s actually infrastructure we desperately need.
Alex, be careful of Brown. If he’s dismantling the CRAs, it’s almost certainly because he has something in mind to replace them that will be even worse.
That’s his pattern: make a big deal about saving thruppence on something that genuinely needs to go away, then quietly replace it with something that costs an arm and a leg.
I guess the high speed rail system won’t be built by Dagney Taggart.
High Speed Trains!
The thing is that the Conservative Movement (OK, Rand, you are not a Conservative, the Conservative/Libertarian/Tea Party/Right Blogosphere movement) is beginning to take on the characteristics of the advocates for high speed trains.
You heard me right, we are beginning to become the high-speed train people. The deal with the high-speed train people is not that they are fer trains and against highways or fer trains and against the Springfield Monorail. The story with the train people is not that they want trains, but the need for trains is at the level of the Apocalypse, meaning Revelation in the Greek, by John imprisoned on Patmos.
If we don’t get trains (this is their thinking, I am just reporting on it), we will be mired in congestion and pollution, we will wreck our economy importing the oil to run our cars, and we will all be spending our money on counseling therapy in response to the stress of driving on ever crowded roads. Oh, and don’t think that planes are an alternative to driving, think of the humiliation of the TSA search!
Y’all believe and know this to be twisted thinking, that somehow intercity Amtrak trains, that carry one tenth of one percent of all passenger miles in the U.S. will suddenly solve the Global Warming Crisis, the Peak Oil Crisis, the Land Use Crisis, and the Geezers Who Lost Their Nerve to Drive Crisis.
And yes Geezers: the High-Speed Train people are all geezers who had enough spare wealth and time to cultivate a passion for riding Amtrak, and this is really nothing to do with high-speed trains and alleviating congestion and everything to do with keeping Amtrak long-distance trains (part of the national network to connect those corridors!) so that said geezers can rekindle their passion with their wives on a sleeping car berth in sync with the swaying of a Superliner car swing-hanger truck (I am not making this up — this was confided to me by a train advocate — would I ever make anything up around here?).
And yes Geezers too, who do you think has time on their hands for Tea Party demonstrations? And the Tea Party is all Obama is wrecking the economy and think of the debt our grandkids will shoulder! It is all as serious as the visions seen by John in prison on Patmos. The Four Horsemen are named Debt, Entitlements, Public Employee leaches, and vacations taken by the Obamas.
And yes Geezers indeed, Edmund G “Jerry” Brown, Jr. is no longer a spring chicken dating young rock stars.
How nice for “Politifact Florida” to set itself up as the arbiter of the “truth” and cherry pick the facts it wants to use to arrive at their predetermined outcome. Where can I get a gig like that?