US Senate kills national high speed rail. THANK YOU SCOTT WALKER!!
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
September 22, 2011 6:21pm CST
Many states have spent or budgeted millions to fund a plan that would connect US cities by a network of high speed trains. Before some states even got anything more than a promise that the money will be there, legislators have moved forward on work projects in preparation.
Here in Wisconsin, Governor Doyle was so excited about the idea that he went to Spain to contract with TALGO to build trains for the Wisconsin part of the network. He made illegal contracts, using money that not only wasn't allocated by the state legislature, but hadn't been paid out by the federal government yet.
When Gov. Scott Walker was running for the office, he promised he would kill any funding or legislation supporting any high speed trains in Wisconsin.
The left went bonkers, crying out against Walker. They claimed that Walker was hurting the state because those federal dollars (and jobs) would go to other states.
Well, as of today, not only will no money (or jobs) go to other states, the states that started spending the money before they got it are now left with expenses, but no funding.
Thank you Gov. Walker for saving millions of taxpayer dollars!!
Once again, Walker is vindicated. Once again the left in Wisconsin is left with egg on their faces.
http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/09/20/senate-strips-high-speed-rail-funding/
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4 responses
@RobtheRock (2433)
• United States
23 Sep 11
Petersum, I would add "for less than minimum wage" to your statement. "Is it a case of not enough Chinese laborers to do the job for far less than minimum wage."
@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
23 Sep 11
When Fl's Gov Scott tried to turn Hussein O's money back for high speed rail the people of Fl and our Reps tried to impeach him. Instead they went behind his back and accepted the money. Now Fl. is likely to go bankrupt over the damn thing because they will never get enough riders to float the extra loans for it or keep it going once it is built. They also have to pay Hussein O the money back after a few years whether it works or not. We are surrounded by greedy idiots!
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
24 Sep 11
Unfortunately there are always idiots that will vote for anything they think is "cool". I remember back in 2000 when a bunch of idiots voted for Florida to get a high speed monorail. Most of the people voting for it had no need for it, but they thought it was cool because Disney had a monorail. Several years after the amendment went through it was abandoned.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
23 Sep 11
High Speed Rail and other forms of Mass Transit do not reduce pollution. The pollution would be less if every time the bus or train moved it was at 50% capacity but in most cases there are very few passengers except for rush hour. The biggest problem with mass transit is that it runs 18 to 24 hours a day and is only close to capacity for 2-4 hours a day. The rest of the time the buses and trains don't carry enough passengers to cover the costs, and at these times they put out more pollution per passenger mile than a car. I have yet to hear of a mass transit system that is making money.
Once you put in mass transit you have to hire workers and pay them for years as a local cost. The Federal government may help in the construction phase but leaves you high and dry on the yearly expenses.
Thanks Gov. Walker for for thought in saving the taxpayers money in the short and long term.
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
23 Sep 11
For a while, they were talking about high speed rail between Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Then it came to light that the "high speed" was going to be about 35 mph and we can drive 65-70 on the highway.
I'm glad Gov. Scott Walker was vindicated again.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
23 Sep 11
The problem is that those high speed trains are sharing the rails with slower trains. It's not a highway where you can conveniently pass slower traffic. If a high speed train is stuck behind a slow, 35mph freight train, then that's the speed it's going to travel at.
