https://calwatchdog.com/2013/04/12/house-gop-whip-folly-to-expect-fed-for-bullet-train/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:52:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://calwatchdog.com/2013/04/12/house-gop-whip-folly-to-expect-fed-for-bullet-train/#comment-10454 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:35:20 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=40870#comment-10454 Bill Hough, the Reason link goes to a second U-T article. The articles were paired.

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2013/04/12/house-gop-whip-folly-to-expect-fed-for-bullet-train/#comment-10453 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:23:45 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=40870#comment-10453 Let’s pretend we are our addled Governor, a train believer. A sorta high speed train he dreams about but how to build it? Well he goes to China and secures the Chinese financing by pledging the right away,land. Land the State can acquire by any means necessary. The actual construction and equipment would come from China as well, there is no “Buy America” clause in any of this dreamy notion.
Of course the train never gets built, but. The “default” by California means China gets the land. Jerry will be gone, just like he left Oakland and the Bay Bridge. China becomes a major land holder in the very rich Central Valley. A unfortunate and unforeseen outcome.
I ‘m just pretending, this is a nutty idea.

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2013/04/12/house-gop-whip-folly-to-expect-fed-for-bullet-train/#comment-10452 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:11:22 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=40870#comment-10452 The reason foundation link also goes to the UT article. You might want to fix that.

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