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After being awarded a combined $1.2 billion in stimulus money to build rail projects — $810 million for a train from Milwaukee to Madison in Wisconsin and $385 million for a rail line linking Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland in Ohio — the governors turned it down. Instead, it will be distributed to train projects in 13 other states, with California being the biggest single beneficiary.
If you live in Wisconsin or Ohio, please tell your governor thank you for all of us in California. The billions of dollars intended for your states will be going to 13 other states - with California being the biggest beneficiary.
If you live in Wisconsin or Ohio, please tell your governor thank you for all of us in California. The billions of dollars intended for your states will be going to 13 other states - with California being the biggest beneficiary.
Lol and California will still not be able to avoid insolvency!
Newly empowered Congressional Republicans have pledged to cut government spending and suggested they may try to recoup the stimulus money for high-speed rail.
We can only hope fiscal sanity will prevail and this very expensive boondoggle gets derailed.
Fund it yourselves California.
The Republicans are the largest beneficiaries of welfare, be it in farm subsidies or otherwise, the refusal to invest in infrastructure development is certainly appropriate, considering their stances on so many other issues also takes the country backwards as progress passes by. Further proof of direct GOP attempts to plunge this country into Third World status
The Republicans are the largest beneficiaries of welfare, be it in farm subsidies or otherwise, the refusal to invest in infrastructure development is certainly appropriate, considering their stances on so many other issues also take the country backwards as progress passes by...
Ok, then please teach us Republicans a lesson, cut spending!
The Republicans are the largest beneficiaries of welfare, be it in farm subsidies or otherwise, the refusal to invest in infrastructure development is certainly appropriate, considering their stances on so many other issues also takes the country backwards as progress passes by. Further proof of direct GOP attempts to plunge this country into Third World status
Spending billions on an ill-conceived and underutilized rail system can hardly be termed "progress".
But dream on if you must.
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"It defies logic and common sense to have the train start and stop in remote areas that have no hope of attaining the ridership needed to justify the cost of the project," U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D., Calif.) wrote in a Nov. 30 letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
Spending billions on an ill-conceived and underutilized rail system can hardly be termed "progress".
But dream on if you must.
I dont know if I trust Cardoza's stance, and/or LaHood's stance. For one thing, the man IS a Republican! I mean that literally, he was a long time Congressman from IL-18 and he was Republican. I dont know about Cardoza or his opposition. Whatever.
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