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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on January 28, 2010, 05:29:45 PM

Title: $8 billion for high speed rail?
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 28, 2010, 05:29:45 PM
Payback to the unions and GE.

(http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/cartoons/new/2005-02-26%20Darwin%20ralil%20white%20elephant%20450.JPG)

It'll cost 3 times more than this and require massive annual subsidies.

duh.
Title: Re: $8 billion for high speed rail?
Post by: JohnnyReb on January 29, 2010, 06:41:03 AM
We can't tar/feather and run the democrats outta town on a rail fast enough to suit me.....oh, you were talking about trains.....sorry.
Title: Re: $8 billion for high speed rail?
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 29, 2010, 06:46:28 AM
Leave it to Obama to become the butt of a Simpson's joke:

[youtube=425,350]AEZjzsnPhnw[/youtube]

We need a name for this 800 ton albatross so the American public never forgets who gave it to us.
Title: Re: $8 billion for high speed rail?
Post by: NHSparky on January 29, 2010, 11:31:51 AM
Oh, come on, think of how much they've spent on "viability studies" of a high-speed rail system between LA and Vegas, and they'll likely never turn one shovel of dirt on that crap, because if they did, they'd be looking at over $20-30 billion on that POS.

Title: Re: $8 billion for high speed rail?
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 29, 2010, 12:17:39 PM
Oh, come on, think of how much they've spent on "viability studies" of a high-speed rail system between LA and Vegas, and they'll likely never turn one shovel of dirt on that crap, because if they did, they'd be looking at over $20-30 billion on that POS.

and never ending subsidies. Its a sop to the unions and GE and other friends of the left.