Comments on: High-speed rail officials: arrogant and dismissive

By: Edward Rasen

Edward Rasen — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:07:00 +0000

Got to get those union boys working before the November election. Jerry Brown Nose wants to raise the sales tax to generate $6 billion. How about not building the Bullet Train to Nowhere and not issuing $3.3 billion in bonds to commence construction? How about repealing the Dream Act and not pay illegal immigrants to attend college? How about taxing all alcohol products? How about recalling Jerry Brown like we did with Gray Davis?

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:27:31 +0000

Boy babble from boneheads is even sillier – but very entertaining. Almost like watching the monkeys at the zoo pleasure themselves.

By: Ted Crocker

Ted Crocker — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:18:09 +0000

Katy, As usual you are spot on. There is one thing I wish the press (including yourself in your next article) would call these guys to the mat on and that is the idea that all infrastructure projects, INCLUDING THIS ONE, are built a little at a time as the money comes along. This falls under the heading of “If you say it enough times it must be true.” Well, Dan Richard and others keeps perpetuating this as if it were a fact, when he is in fact lying. Nor are they allowed to wait for private investors after the IOS was built. That wasn’t how the bond measure was written:

From the June 2008 Senate Report on HSR explaining the bond measure (http://stran.senate.ca.gov/sites/stran.senate.ca.gov/files/FINALHSRREPORT.pdf) :
“This farsighted transportation project, however, is not a conventional public works
project to be built with pay as you go funding or by relying exclusively on debt financing. “
“The Authority’s business proposition for California’s voters is to structure a major
infrastructure project capable of attracting a substantial amount of private capital. It is
anticipated that the project will be developed on a design-build-finance-operate-maintain
basis with a private business partner as the key player. This plan requires the project to
attract a private consortium with the resources to design, construct, finance, and operate
the high-speed project under the terms of a long term franchise.”

Regards,
Ted Crocker
Co-Founder High Speed Boondoggle

By: queeg

queeg — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:46:14 +0000

Boycotts are childish and distasteful to educated and discerning people….nasty rants foaming up “sheep” are counter productive.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:27:00 +0000

“Why would the average person making an average income give so much money to watch a bunch of over paid brats play ball of any sort”

Propoganda marketing that the sheeple buy into. They have turned it into a national pasttime. You are one of the ‘cool ones’ if you can go to work on Monday and tell everybody as you stand next to the the water cooler that you saw the Broncos play the Saints at Mile High. I always felt like saying “You’re an idiot. You spent $350 to watch a game with binoculars in 30 degree weather that I saw from a front row seat in the comfort of my home”. Most of those you see on the field couldn’t operate an elevator in real life and they’re making a minimum of $1M a year – even if they’re bench warmers. The ones who really play make $7M and more a year. For playing a game. More than neurosurgeons who cut tumors out of human brains. It’s a total farce. I recommend everybody boycott them.

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:08:14 +0000

The High-Speed Rail Authority has an internet ad that reads, “We’re not stopping now.”

There is another sponsored by the California Alliance for Jobs that says, “Put High-Speed Rail on Track.”

Katy

By: larry 62

larry 62 — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:02:41 +0000

Beelzebub, Love your comment about the baseball strike and not going back to see a game since then. They lost me at that time too. I feel that way about pro sports in general. Why would the average person making an average income give so much money to watch a bunch of over paid brats play ball of any sort. Minor league stuff is fun to watch.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:41:17 +0000

Yeah, Ueberroth makes some good points. I saw him on another show and he gave some pretty gloomy warnings should Ca continue to move in the same direction. Don’t forget that he took lots of government money in a effort to turn So Central around after the riots. It was mostly a give-a-way to minority contractors in Los Angeles. And it really didn’t do much to improve the culture or the extended business climate in that part of LA. If you were an entrepreneur would you open a business there? Honestly, would you?

I haven’t been to a pro baseball game in 25 years. I used to go to watch some of the farm leagues play. They get paid a pittance compared to the big leagues. I got as much enjoyment watching them. I refuse to shell out big money to watch these spoiled brats make millions for playing a game. The first time they went on strike they lost me. I never forgot about that.

Uberroths not going to vote for Jerry Clowns tax hikes. Why is acting like he’s on the fence??? heh. He’s a multi-millioaire. Why would the old man cut his own throat? I would rather just have him look into the camera and say “hell no”. But it’s hard to get anyone to be straight now a days.

By: Rex The Wonder Dog!

Rex The Wonder Dog! — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:51:53 +0000

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/NewsConference–20-Years-After-the-Riots–Peter-Ueberroth–Part-3/149338435

Listen and learn folks/

By: Rex The Wonder Dog!

Rex The Wonder Dog! — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:42:04 +0000

Once Wall Street stops buying our bonds/debt the game is over, and that day of reckoning is almost here.

Saw Peter Uberoth getting interviewed on TV last night and he was on the money when he said this about LA, but it is not just LA it is the state also.