The high speed rail will have the same problems as Amtrak which is heavily subsidized by the government and still loses money.

There won’t be enough wealthy people riding the train, or anyone else for that matter, to ever recover the costs.

The idea of people commuting back and forth to work from one end of California to the other on a high speed rail that will cost a small fortune to ride is delusional at best and insane at worst.

At best the bullet train will attract vacationers and the occasional riders and no more. It will attract the subsidized criminal class, though, who will prey on anyone who looks like they have money. And the way California’s economy is going and the way they’re letting criminals out of prison, it would be naive to think otherwise.

Albert Einstein was once quoted to have said: “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Mr. Einstein certainly understood politics and politicians.

I suspect that many of the HSR riders will be people visiting their relatives at Corcoran State Prison, especially on the early operation segments. They will get subsidized rides.

I seriously doubt if those government jobs ever come to fruition. The number of people working is shrinking and in time the tax base will be such that even a confiscatory tax rate on those who still have jobs won’t be able to pay for more government spending let alone a 100 billion dollar high speed rail.

The government does to American citizens everyday what Bernie Madoff did to his investors. The difference is that it’s legal for the government to run a ponzi scheme and spend money it doesn’t have and make promises it can’t keep yet Bernie Madoff is in prison for doing the same thing.

The work of a man-child with electronic crayons.

Klein loses credibility every time he opens his pie hole and starts lisping.

Realistically speaking, the only way the over-educated elite will ride the high speed rail is if it’s too expensive for the average person or there’s a compartment for the well to do.

Mingling with the filthy uneducated masses is beneath them and slumming it is unacceptable in polite high society. Why, what would their friends think or say if they heard that they sat next to some (gasp) commoner? What would they say or do if one of those “commoners” spoke to them?

This culture’s most bizarre recent celebration of high speed rail was a fantasy map of high speed rail train routes across the country. This map is the graphic equivalent of Noam Chomsky. It’s driving the push for transportation based on the democratic public interest.

http://planyourcity.net/2013/02/13/the-best-us-high-speed-rail-map-yet/?goback=%2Egmp_1961663%2Egde_1961663_member_213855414