The bullet train to Vegas is a scam. It does nothing for California.
This photo is from XPress West’s homepage.
The San Bernardino Sun wrote a story this morning which states, Libertarian think tank opposes government loan for Victorville-to-Las Vegas rail.
XPress West is lobbying very hard for billions of dollars as a loan to build their rail train (with a restrictive speed of 150 mph). Okay, how is this going to help the economy in SoCal when over time it will remove hundreds of millions of dollars out of California’s economy and delivers the gold at the doorsteps of Nevada profiteers.
Bullet trains are needed along the breath of California from SF to SD. But to sink billions into a corporation for a fun-ride trip to Vegas is preposterous.
The Think Tank states it’s a taxpayers risk. They make the good argument that it’s cheaper to commute via automobile than to take this expensive fun-ride to Vegas.
“There’s a reason so many people drive to Las Vegas from the Inland Empire, Riverside, Los Angeles. If you get two or three people in the car, it’s pretty cheap,” said Adrian Moore, the Reason Foundation’s vice president for policy.
XPress West executives declined to comment. They have an extensive homepage, however, EPress West unlike many corporations fail to list their board of directors, CEO or president. They neither list any other infrastructures they’ve build nor do they list any experience in constructing and management of hi-speed trains.
Shouldn’t we be concerned about corporations attempting to usurp loan billions in loans for something that is not going to actually benefit the public? This is not free enterprise; it’s corporate lobbyists attempting to manipulate government.
Rather, as stated, a true asset to California would be a much needed hi-speed bullet train from SF to SD.
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These pocket padding projects propagate due to the people electing politicians that are greedy bastards, people that are easily bought by their lobbyist buddies that they previously served with. So often with term limits politicians are looking for a lucrative position once termed out. Time for the voters to open their eyes, it is a dis service to the future generations to focus on main stream media saturation stories like the recent chicken sandwich guy. Who in their right mind would give a dam what the chicken guy says when their representation and tax dollars is being auctioned off to the highest contributor. If we look at voting records that would be a good start, maybe even lead us away from caring about the absurd battles of the one issue lunatics.
Remember when there were competition in the main stream media news, now we have six major global businesses that collude to stupefy the tube.
Remember when there were competition in the main stream media news, now we have six major global businesses that collude to stupefy the tube? Mark C asks…
I thought that is what citizen journalism is for Mark. I thought by folks questioning what is truth you expand knowledge. While the main Stream Media reports what it wants to report and choose to report their versions of truth, we all here and like a those who frequent the 100s of thousands if not millions of other blogs, work, think and share our own versions of truth.
While you have to reach out and search for truth… Truth is everywhere you look.
I will just say the blogosphere often not always but often becomes nothing more than a discussion board for main stream media propaganda meant to maintain a division that diverts peoples attention from the wealth extraction being perpetrated by quantitive easing ( QE 1 QE2 and soon QE3)or better put the delusion of the currency. It is truly amazing the lack of understanding most have of our fiat currency.
…..and that in essence is your “Truth.”
A train from SD to SF is just as useless and would never have enough riders to pay initial construction cost let alone turn a profit or break even.
The Bullet train hype is just as asinine as solar and wind energy solving our dependance on fossil fuels.
There is already a passenger train running both routes. It’s called Amtrack, and the only thing the so-called “Bullet Train” will do is lose money faster.
What is your proposal to replace our “dependance (sic)” on fossil fuels which are a finite fuel/energy source?
Denial.
Hi Terry,
I don’t think that will work do you?
I kind of like my electricity and vehicles.
I would hate to see a very slow and painful death of current civilization because some do not understand that fossil fuels have an end point and we as a species had better have a plan to replace that lost energy at the levels at use at the time of emptiness or we will see an Armageddon that I do not wish upon anyone.
LMAO!
Very good and very true.
Unless it can be bottled up and sold it will never be addressed. Armageddon may well be the earth’s solution. Mass starvation as synthetic fertilizers become scarce will whittle down the population along with associated disease. It’s not going to happen in our lifetime and our kids may even escape it so it’s far removed from our reality, and really denial works quite well. I figure I have 20 or 30 years left, then it’s their problem what we did.