Comments on: Meet the Mother Jones staffer who thinks the bullet train is nuts https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/09/meet-the-mother-jones-staffer-who-thinks-the-bullet-train-is-nuts/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:52:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joe Arizona https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/09/meet-the-mother-jones-staffer-who-thinks-the-bullet-train-is-nuts/#comment-104838 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:31:37 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71232#comment-104838 Rail does not work, and is invariably all about developer profits and union jobs and bankrupt pension funds. The real fun with rail project numbers comes when you start setting the fares and weighing how those effect ridership and revenues. Rail almost never reduces traffic congestion in any measurable way in the US as we just lack the population density. Biz travelers need to get there faster and too few leisure travelers will want to leave their cars behind.

]]> By: Rob Anderson https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/09/meet-the-mother-jones-staffer-who-thinks-the-bullet-train-is-nuts/#comment-104825 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:40:04 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71232#comment-104825 Only Gavin Newsom among prominent state Democrats has criticized the high-speed rail boondoggle: http://district5diary.blogspot.com/2014/09/tom-ammiano-and-city-progressives.html

As a Democrat, I’m embarrassed by my party. Yes, a lot of that support is about the unions, which don’t care if a project is wasteful and dumb, as long as it creates jobs for the membership. Conservative Debra Saunders rightly called this project the Democrats’ bridge to nowhere!

Alas, Kevin Drum is being treated for cancer but apparently is doing well and should survive.

]]> By: Eric Christen https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/09/meet-the-mother-jones-staffer-who-thinks-the-bullet-train-is-nuts/#comment-104805 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:17:44 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71232#comment-104805 Great piece Chris. Drum wants to be able to say “I told you so” when this catastrophe is shown for what it is.

Also, when you talk to Dems at the local level they hate the train because they want that money for local projects. It’s unions and many of the statewide D’s that need their support to survive who support this turkey. You can’t have the % you have opposed to it in this state if only R’s are opposed to it.

]]> By: Timberrrrrr...... https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/09/meet-the-mother-jones-staffer-who-thinks-the-bullet-train-is-nuts/#comment-104711 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:33:03 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71232#comment-104711 I’ve been spouting Drum’s arguments since the inception of this crazy train talk. Maybe he read my comments. So now even the liberals are biting their masters. That’s a good sign. When a liberal awakens from his deep coma and acts outraged at the liberal oligarchs for their mismanagement of our society, that is progress. Maybe there is hope afterall. When I finally see the liberals on the CWD board awaken from their deep slumbers and admit the simple truth I will be estatic. Heck. I might even send Mother Jones, a liberal who I abhor, a donation and ask her to give Mr. Drum a raise, meaning of course a hike in pay. 😀

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